So I just read thru all this and there just seems to be a lot of speculation. So I googled ‘contact Ram Air Restorations Arizona’ and got a phone number. So I called it. Paul answered. We spoke for about 20 minutes. I told him I was watching his web site, waiting for the 64-67 o/s d-port manifolds. He explained that during Covid, the foundry he had been dealing with for years dropped him. Then he found a foundry in the panhandle of Texas and had everything set up. And the head engineer overseeing his manifolds died. Now he has found a third place. At this time he has 300 left bank manifolds and is waiting on the right bank castings. He has also received shipments of other castings that he is currently batch machining on his Mazak machine centers. I am an optimist so I choose to believe he has had some supplier issues. I see it every day at my employer. So I put my order in. Castings are tentatively due mid-April. Fingers crossed.
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