440 Rat Roaster intake manifold ?

[chargerbr549]

I was talking to a friend of mine and he said that he heard they were reproducing the Rat Roaster Intake for 440's so I did some searching here and on ebay and some other places and I didn't find anything, has anybody heard if they are available?

Kevin

[firefighter3931]

Kevin are you talking about a crossram ?


Ron

[chargerbr549]

No not the crossram style like the max wedges had  in the early to mid 60's, but I think it was edelbrock who made them probably back in the 70's, a friend of mine had one on his 69 Road Runner with a 440 he used to race years ago, I know they also made them for hemi's at one time. They are a big bath tub style with a top plate that is removable and you could have single or dual quads.

Kevin

[firefighter3931]

You must be thinking of the Edelbrock STR (street tunnel ram) manifolds which came with different tops...single 4bbl, crossram and i believe a 6-pack lid. The str14 was the RB version and the str15 was the b version. Those are no longer being made as you probably know.

A&A is repro ing the crossrams for RB engines in both the std port and max wedge port.

Indy makes a bathtub style intake which is probably what your buddy is referring to. The intake looks like an inline dual 4 bbl setup but the carbs are offset ever so slightly so that it's legal for NSS racing....at least that's my understanding.  The Indy piece has a removable top and is a Max Wedge intake port design....won't work with a std size 440 port. The Edelbrock RPM's can be opened up to port match this manifold but a stock head cannot.

Hope this helps.


Ron

[Rolling_Thunder]

The "Rat Roaster" was the name given to this particular intake manifold I believe. It was an intake put on the 426 Hemi to make it legal for NASCAR.



Below is the Edelbrock "Rat Roaster 2" intake for the 426 Hemi

[chargerbr549]

Hey guys thanks for the info, the letters STR was kind of in the back of my mind when I was thinking of that manifold but I wasn't sure and like you said Ron they are no longer available. With some direction I did a bunch of searching and found a lot of info on these cross ram style manifolds and availability from Indy and A&A trans, of coarse alot of greenbacks and they can be had.



Kevin