Milling the Stealth Ram base
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Milling the Stealth Ram base
Who has milled the Stealth Ram base to lower the plenum for more hood clearance? How much did you take off? What other issues arose? Thanks in advance.
Last edited by Ricktpi; Jul 27, 2003 at 05:29 PM.
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I would guess that it would be cheaper and much easier to buy one of Grumpyvette's shorter plenums, but others have milled around 1/8" off the base, so it's definately possible.
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From: loxahatchee fla
the most you can mill without running into problems is about 3/8" even milling that much will cause several minor problems with some clearance issues
we looked at that option quite extensively, trust me the custom PLENUM IS A STEAL AT THE PRICE, it took 9 prototypes to get everything correct, theres 11 changes in the design and theres TESTED reasons for all of them
we looked at that option quite extensively, trust me the custom PLENUM IS A STEAL AT THE PRICE, it took 9 prototypes to get everything correct, theres 11 changes in the design and theres TESTED reasons for all of them
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I figured about 3/8" being the max. What did it hit? The t-stat housing? I assume you have to drill the bolt holes deeper too. Did you helicoil them afterward? Do you have pics of the custom plenum somewhere? I would consider another plenum except I just spent 4 hours polishing mine.
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