Re: LT-1 Heads

["Chris Bennight" <Christopher_Bennight@baylor.edu>]

Nope - if you try and reverse flow through the heads my guess is you will 
get all sorts of strange cooling problems - cavitation, or at least air pockets
built up, etc.  You probably could machine everything so
it physically bolted
up, but I would be dubious about any long term life or performance.  
If you really want to run the stuff get a LT1 block - you can still use 
standard SBC bottom end components in it (might need to use a 2pc rear
main seal adapter - though I would reccomend a 1 pc
RMS type crank 
if you can swing it.  You are correct, there are no 
cooling passages
in the LT1 manifold.


  Chris Bennight
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Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: LT-1 Heads


| OK, this is the answer I got from the guy selling the LT-1 heads and manifold.
| 
| >>If you use the heads with another intake it will not work without the 
| modifications you specified.  The heads and intake will bolt onto your block 
| and work just fine.  (A friend and I checked the water holes on a block he 
| had to make absolutely sure.)<<
| 
| This guy claims the LT-1 heads and manifold will fit my Gen-1 block. Can I 
| change the flow direction through the heads and they still work right? If the 
| heads were designed for the lower temp water coming in from the radiator 
| first, will they detonate  with the higher temps by standard flow cooling?
| 
| Shannen, I understood your comment to mean that the manifold has no cooling 
| passages. If thats true, would I have to thread in a cooling nipple at the 
| front of each head?
| 
| Thanks, and I'll let it die after this, I just can't pass up a short runner 
| Corvette manifold this easy. <------ token EFI content
| 
| JW
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