Yes please, send me the ECM.
What is your email address, so we can swap shipping details?
I don't want my address or cell phone number here on this server.
I'll send you an email from my encrypted server ProtonMail ASAP.
If you sign up for a free email address at Protonmail, we can exchange certificates and our email conversations will be encrypted and secure.
I would appreciate it if you please get an email account, very much. I have been stalked and prefer my info remain extremely private.
Then you know the only person with your new email account is me and vice versa, or those who you buy and sell parts from this site... rather than using the one for your account logins, such as banking... etc... ProtonMail blocks email attachments, formatting and links, until you approve them. It has an extreme security server for malware detection. I do not use a VPN in the USA, but if you pay a monthly fee they sell them and I've heard from US resident's overseas it is worth it and works well for them.
When you email me for the first time, (***and the account systems settings are set to request a certificate***) you'll see a red box asking if you want to install the signed certificate attached to my first email. That's it. from then on, between each other, we are highly encrypted and private.
The IRS will be stalking these sites with Bots sooner or later, looking for taxable revenue. If you sign on here at 3am there are hundreds of bots online searching the site all morning long... maybe 2-3 guys from Australia and hundreds of Bots.
Regarding the engine...
Seen the manifolds warp from overheating. Especially the affordable ones from Jegs and Summit...
Edelbrock has a huge chunk of aluminum cast diagonally under the rear flanges which stops the warping. The 7116 square bore to Vortec head pattern I used is over $300.00 now. It flows for days.
I used special Vortec head gaskets with steel plates and rubber seals from Felpro: MS98000T.
It took a lot of reading before I found how well they work and located them at Summit. They are $60.00 and include seals & stuff for the plastic plenum and a set of valve cover gaskets, o-rings... etc... which you may never use...
The rest of the kit is on the shelf, useless.
The steel gaskets with black rubber seals are the only thing which will seal my Edlebrock properly.
It's the only way to buy them, since Vic Heinz stopped selling the steel version separately, when Mahle bought them out.
If you buy the $39.00 Mahle Vortec intake set, instead of the $24.00 set, they send you the exact same plastic gaskets.
...and they suck and melt at the number 7-8 intake holes, eventually.
Mahle knows the picture is wrong... ask me how I know... when I contacted the sales rep for Mahle USA, she blew it off.
Says Alabama did not know why the pictures showed steel and shipped plastic. No offer for refund or anything.
The only place I used The Right Stuff was at the China walls. No leak for now...
I also made certain there was zero debrie in the holes for the intake. Sometimes old sealant or dirt will stop the bolts from bottoming out.
The stock GM Vortec Manifold bolts are designed with an extra nub of steel on the bottom to locate them at torque when they hit the deep tap threaded bottom. They may not look as cool but they work the best, so you avoid uneven torque and warping of the flanges.
I'm not Positive they bottom out with the rubber seals at torque though. They may only bottom with the stock paper gaskets, which is why they leak. At least you cannot go too deep with the GM hardware... I recall running a bottoming tap through everything.
Let me know when you get a new email account and I'll contact you with shipping details?
OK?
