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Intake Manifold Fabrication

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Leonard Wood's Workshop: Half Size Holley Carb and Ford 429 Hemi Project! (Wood Brothers Racing)

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What happens here

Leonard proudly displays an aluminum intake manifold, a complex piece of engineering. He highlights the challenge of creating curved internal passages, explaining that it involved a painstaking process of hand-forming and welding multiple pieces of aluminum sheet metal to achieve the desired shape and airflow characteristics.

Goal: Showcase the hand-formed aluminum intake manifold and its complex design.

Tools and materials

  • Aluminum Intake Manifold Custom-made — Demonstrating complex metal shaping
  • Aluminum sheet metal — Raw material for the intake manifold

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where it's marked in pink. Is this a place that needs additional processing? Benny makes it look like this. He does all the mechanical work here. Mhm. And then I take it and make it look like this. It is not easy to drill a hole at an angle. I made a few tools to do this. Do you have a small workspace where you sit down and cut something out? Um, I work back there all the time. This is my playroom, as they call it.

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