RE: Response to weekend Digests

[renarac@domain.elided]

NOPE NO WAY NO HOW. (there is that enough "blast" for you?)
The 304 has different castings. Smaller intake runners. is the obvious
difference.

   >NEXT:
   >>Maybe the angle difference is in the intake manifold and they are
   >>interchangable.  (Guess)
   >>
   >>The 304 heads are not interchangable with the 345/392 engines.  The
   >>2??/304 and the 345/392 have different block heights.  So the angles for
   >>the intake manifold will be offset.  This is my understanding, but
   >>somebody can correct me if I am wrong.
   >	I think I just blasted out a blurb on this last week, since I didnt 
   >catch any flack, I'm pretty sure I'm correct.  The "V8" 345 and 304 share 
   >heads.  You are right to say that the deck heights are different, but the 
   >angle is the same, both 90 degrees.  The reason the intakes wont swap is 
   >due to the lower deck height, smaller V of the 304.  The distance between 
   >the tips of the V's is different.  The 345/392 intake is just too wide for 
   >the 304, same angle though.  The 304,345,392 heads all start from the same 
   >shape piece of iron, the 304/345 is just milled differently than the 392, 
   >ie smaller/bigger holes, valves, chamber, whatnot.
   >   >