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**'68OrangeSunshine** · 03-21-2014, 05:35 AM

I have used the stock Chevy L6 connecting tabs, [short ones only] just ground out so there is a matching notch on them and mounted headers and exhaust that way. Of course I once had a shop modify my Clifford Headers with a 3/8" mating flange [done long ago when shop time was a lot cheaper], so there's less of a drop between the header and intake.
Remember to take a vice-grips and pull out the non-threaded mounting studs on head holes # 1 and #9. They are threaded 3/8-16 UNC, you will find, and a bolt or stud and nut works a lot better for mounting headers than a stupid guide pin. On mine I have a round rocker arm half-ball, inverted, to increase pressure under the bolt heads at 1 and 9.

Hey Blackland, my recruiter promised me MCAS Kaneohe, so naturally I never got there. I was a Harrier Handler, AV8A Avionics Troubleshooter with VMA 231 and VMAT 203 at Cherry Point NC, 2nd MAW, then overseas to VMA 513 out of MCAS Iwakuni Japan [plus NAS Cubi Point Philipines, Kadena Airbase Okinawa, and Po Hang ROKMCB, Korea] with the 1st Airwing, rotating back stateside to MCAS Yuma, 3rd MAW, for the last 11 months of my tour. Nothing else to do weekends at Yuma, I hotrodded my first 292 there. It ran 25 years.
I have a rice grinder myself: my Mom left me a '92 Subaru Legacy, 2.2 L boxer. Freon 13 A/C, cassette deck and power windows all still work good and it gets 25 MPG crusing 80 MPH. It has about 117,000 total miles.
Semper Fi

03-21-2014, 05:35 AM	#8
'68OrangeSunshine Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Posts: 7,628	Re: Clifford intake with Hedman headers?? I have used the stock Chevy L6 connecting tabs, [short ones only] just ground out so there is a matching notch on them and mounted headers and exhaust that way. Of course I once had a shop modify my Clifford Headers with a 3/8" mating flange [done long ago when shop time was a lot cheaper], so there's less of a drop between the header and intake. Remember to take a vice-grips and pull out the non-threaded mounting studs on head holes # 1 and #9. They are threaded 3/8-16 UNC, you will find, and a bolt or stud and nut works a lot better for mounting headers than a stupid guide pin. On mine I have a round rocker arm half-ball, inverted, to increase pressure under the bolt heads at 1 and 9. Hey Blackland, my recruiter promised me MCAS Kaneohe, so naturally I never got there. I was a Harrier Handler, AV8A Avionics Troubleshooter with VMA 231 and VMAT 203 at Cherry Point NC, 2nd MAW, then overseas to VMA 513 out of MCAS Iwakuni Japan [plus NAS Cubi Point Philipines, Kadena Airbase Okinawa, and Po Hang ROKMCB, Korea] with the 1st Airwing, rotating back stateside to MCAS Yuma, 3rd MAW, for the last 11 months of my tour. Nothing else to do weekends at Yuma, I hotrodded my first 292 there. It ran 25 years. I have a rice grinder myself: my Mom left me a '92 Subaru Legacy, 2.2 L boxer. Freon 13 A/C, cassette deck and power windows all still work good and it gets 25 MPG crusing 80 MPH. It has about 117,000 total miles. Semper Fi __________________ Every 25 years I like to rebuild that 292, whether it needs it or not. Last edited by '68OrangeSunshine; 03-21-2014 at 05:50 AM.