I was just brainstorming and was looking at the area between the valve cover and the manifolds, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be a half decent idea to mill that area smooth and then drill for the injectors to get them nice and close to the backs of the valves?

I have only one slant and it is installed in my car so this is just a little playful "Bench Engineering" but any thoughts would be welcome.

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You would have to bore a big hole and weld/braze/epoxy in a tube as there is water between that ledge above the port face and the intake ports.

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Yep, lots of water jacket there. Not worth the trouble, IMHO.

Lou

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Isn't the head also significantly hotter then the intake?

I would worry also if the mix was run too lean for too long, you might melt the o-rings on the injectors... or worse...

-D.Idiot

I should have guessed there was a jacket there, they built the Slant so strong I guess I just figured the head was solid! Thanks for the input.

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That Sounds like a option For the Next slant Head that comes along:) or maybe even direct injection!

Greg

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This is something I thought about, too. Even drilled a hole in a junk head to check. It does make for nice injector targeting - right at the valve! But I decided the machining/sealing issues made it not worth the trouble.

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Years ago (70s), there was an article on a Plymouth Cricket Wagon that had a highly modified slant. They actually cut a bunch of the area of the port out of the way and pressed in tubes. They then placed a cut carb on top of each tube. Needless to say it look really awesome and ran in the tens. I don't remember which mag it was in, but that is what hooked me on the thought of a hot six.

What is a "cut carb?"

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They cut the dominator carb right in half. They then placed the half of the carb right over the top of two cylinders.

Maybe you could mill a hole and install a iron tube with pipe threads, then set the injector in the bottom of the tube, with an o-ring in the bottom?

Wasn't there somebody already doing this? I thought I saw recent pictures of a head drilled out for the tubes, on this site.

check the fifth or sixth thread down from top

Yep that's the one.

http://slantsix.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31675