Re: [Chrysler300] 4- bolt truck manifolds for 300C ?

["Dave Schwandt" <finsruskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne Graefen makes 'em, I think

Dave Schwandt


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From: "Richard Barber" <c300@xxxxxxx>
To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:59 PM
Subject: FW: [Chrysler300] 4- bolt truck manifolds for 300C ?


> From:  http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118712
> <http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118712&highlight=hemi+t
> ech&page=4> &highlight=hemi+tech&page=4
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> Scroll down.  Some pretty interesting intake and exhaust manifold
> descriptions and photos.  The writer of this post is not me and it will
> apparently take some R&D and registration at the site to find him.  John
> Forney is apparently involved in both options if he still lives at the
> posted e-mail address.
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> I and club members Bruce Toelle and Scott Tozzi all had our 300's at the
> Wine Country Mopars show Sunday and each of us brought home trophies in
> various MoPar classes.  Not enough 300's there to make a class of our own.
> A great venue at the Sonoma Jacuzzi Winery.  Keep this in mind for next
> year.
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> And, yes, it is the same family that made and marketed Jacuzzi tubs; and 
> no,
> the wine was not prepared or served from one!
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> C-300'ly,
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> Rich Barber
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> Brentwood, CA
>
> 1955 Chrysler C-300
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> Yes, both the popular "truck-style" 4-bolt exhaust manifolds are being
> reproduced by John Forney jwforney@xxxxxxx and the '57-58 Chrysler
> flat-sided 4-bolts needed for the 392 in the Chrysler 300 stock chassis is
> also being reproduced with John's help and sold by me (send PM to me if
> interested).
>
> The original truck manifolds have been popular with hot rodders and have
> been going up in price but many were very abused from their years on 
> trucks
> and typically have broken mounting ears or have cracks and repairs from
> extreme heating in high load conditions and many are warped. So John 
> Forney
> reproduced them. Super high quality castings and he is the machinist that
> finishes them. He also sells the head pipe stubs to start your downpipe.
> Besides the trucks, this is the exhaust manifold that Carl Kiekhaefer
> legally used on the '55-56 Chrysler 300 race cars in NASCAR because it is 
> a
> factory part and it clears everything in the car chassis.
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> The '57-58 manifold repro I offer had to be created by the factory as a
> response to the new-for-57 torsion bar chassis. The old truck 4-bolts 
> would
> not clear the right upper control arm and the steering box. By slightly
> flattening the casting of one ram's horn the clearance was gained. This 
> was
> accomplished by the mid-57 production year and became an offering on the 
> '58
> option list included in "the 2.5" exhaust system" option for all 300s and
> was standard on the cars equipped with electronic fuel injection.
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> Summary: If you want 4-bolt ram's horn types for your 331-354-392 Hemi in
> your hot rod, John's manifolds are perfect. If you are building a '57-59
> factory chassis Mopar with one of those engines in it, you will need my
> flat-sided 4-bolt manifolds for clearance.
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> From: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Miklas
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 4:38 PM
> To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Chrysler300] 4- bolt truck manifolds for 300C ?
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> At Carlisle, I was told by someone in the Chrysler Products Club that
> "someone" in the "western 300 club" has reproduced the "4-bolt truck 
> exhaust
> manifolds" . He wasn't sure if they fit 300B or 300C,D.
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> Sorry to be so vague. Does anybody know any particulars or if this is even
> correct??
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> Thanks
>
> Jeff Miklas
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