Intake manifold?

[Zombiepryor]

Two of the bolt holes where the upper plenum attaches to the lower intake manifold have broken. I've searched for new ones and all I'm finding is "Unavailable" and the Champion intake that requires a good core for them to even ship me one. Are there any options to just get it up and running again?

 

[EricM]

Can you attach a picture?

 

[Zombiepryor]

Can you attach a picture?

I can try to get pictures for you. The one that is on the inside on the back of the intake, and the passenger side rear both sheared off half the bolt hole when doing the final torque sequence.

 

[Zombiepryor]

Here are the pictures.

 

[Jon Early]

Yikes. Any local welding shop should be able to fix that though. I had a buddy fix mine then I re-drilled and tapped the hole myself.

 

[Zombiepryor]

Local prices were insane, and people that do it all the time are so far from me that the shipping is more than the repairs cost. I gave up and welded it myself the best I could, converted the inside bolt hole to use a stud and epoxied it in place in case the weld might want to fail in the future it is all one piece now.
It's like these intakes were made as "One time use". It gets put together, and you might be lucky enough to get away with an upper plenum swap, but after that it's going to break.