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LOL I agree !!!! When it comes to making allot of HP I'm not going to let a hood stop me.

Jim, I might be persuaded to tool up for a cast tunnel ram intake if the demand is there. Right now though I don't see enough to warrant the cost from start to finish. I wouldn't be adverse to someone else making a tunnel ram if they want to step up. I wouldn't even be adverse to taking an investor. I would make the tooling, market them and give them a return on their investment. I thought at one time Lynn's tunnel ram might bolt on, but it won't at least not without some welding, porting, and drilling. Look below at the pic's with one of my intake gaskets on Lynn's head. My bolt holes are actually over top of Lynn's valve cover rail and don't line up. I still haven't disqualified my cast intake yet either. The runners look short, but for most cubic inch high rpm applications I think it can made to work. As you know now from seeing my heads first hand. The intake port is longer than one thinks at first glance. So the intake manifold runners don't need to be as long as say an Edelbrock head. My cast intake has allot of room for allot of different cubic inches and rpm ranges. That's why I designed it the way that I did, versatility. With the insert I make for the intake you can manipulate port runner length to some degree. Plenum volume is easily modified with a spacer. Take a look at my cast intake and see what you think. I believe you have one down there. The total port length from the valve to the plenum with my cast intake is almost 10". I believe that the Victor on a Edelbrock or stock head is only about 11" total. That's actually not a bad thing because of the higher rpm potential my heads have over the Edelbrocks. The one disadvantage to my intake is the runners do have a slight curve to them to get it to fit under the hood.