Austin 850 performance conversion

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How would you be able to make the ram tubes? Just curious about the forming process. Would they be made by welding and bending aluminium tubes?

I've chatted to Harley about it. I'm going to go and see him soon to confirm the final design, give him a carb to measure, etc. I think he's going to form them from blocks of whatever alloy. I think I will go for the flat ones with as big a radius as I can fit in there (similar to the bottom right pic in Vizard's book above). Either that or some elbows to fit the H1 carbs and lift the filter box to a more standard position similar to the BMC twin carb air filter box. I'm going to chat to Dennis about which is best.