78 Ta with Holley
 

Greg
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Bob

I bought the kit from Blockers and then I had to remove the metal plate from the fiberglass of my shaker, and I drilled out the spot welds connecting the ring to the shaker. From there I measured the amount of angle I needed, the distance I needed in addition to what the ring provided and I made an adapter to weld between the factory ring and the metal plate. Because the LS motor is about 1" off the seem of the hood, to the passenger side I will glue the metal plate slightly off center so the seem in the shaker matches the seem in the hood.

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Are you going to install the Blockers plate and filter while you have the metal plate off? Seems like that would make it easier, but I cannot recall if the metal plate is needed to align the Blockers plate?

Did you make Seth pull out his trig books to determine how to cut that adapter at the right angle? ;)

Love this project, way to make the new better stuff appear just like the old stuff.

Also recognize the logo on the boat cover that you are using as a bench. Had a 2001 LSV for about 8 years or so, still my one sellers regret moment when I let it go.

I actually made a thin wall cylinder in Solidworks and then made a cut thru the cylinder at the angle, then unwrapped that- that gave me the pattern to cut in the flat.

Thanks for the kind words Lance. The shaker scoop is a one off Dusold edition shaker, which drove a lot of the engine selection .

Looks good. I like what you have planned for the shaker. I think it'll work well for you.

Sorry Lance, I think i provided a bit of a cryptic response. I wanted to utilize the shaker as the CAI and that's what led me to where I am now.
I wont get back to the finish the shaker for some time now as I just had a knee replacement surgery and it's very difficult to get around.

It's a Malibu Response LXi under that boat cover. It's been a great boat!

Bummer to hear about the knee work, hopefully the recovery is swift and you can get back behind that Response soon.