Need intake help, bolt broke off clean at thermostat housing

[BEEBOB]

Trying to replace my thermostat I broke a bolt off that holds down housing.
Tried drilling for a ease out then ease out broke off. Just my luck.
So if I am gonna have to pull it off to try and get it out. Is there a better
Intake that I can get. I have no mods to the motor, all stock. Would one of the edelbrock intakes work with no other mods

 

[chicken joe]

i dont see why not, its not going to hurt anything. you wont see huge gains from just an intake, but ill bet you might notice a little.

i have never changed just an intake, personaly if that happens to me, its the engine god telling me its time to do some upgrades.

 

[BEEBOB]

Yeah I would love to. Just don't have the $$$.

 

[dyeager535]

I read something in one of the car mags that on a stock motor, the stock intakes work fine. I would assume this holds particularly true for trucks, where the cam/heads/exhaust simply aren't designed to flow massive amounts.

Obviously Edelbrock is the "known quantity" when it comes to aftermarket intakes, with a bit of searching via Google, can probably find some before/after dyno tests, but they'd have to be on a very low-performance motor, that was stock in every regard other than the intake change. Many writeups now seem to be pretty good about changing only one component then dyno testing, as opposed to in the past where they'd put on a new intake, but also change the cam, exhaust, etc., then claim that the "brand X" intake was worth tons of power.

 

[BEEBOB]

Thanks

 

[375 H&H]

try this first:

place a washer over the bolt stub. weld stub to washer (I try to make a puddle right over the bolt stub that extends out onto the washer all the way around). weld a nut to the washer(a couple of good tacks should suffice). let it cool and try to remove the stub.

 

[BEEBOB]

I finally got that biatch out. Thanks for the ideas. Just drilled
Around the ease out and collapsed it in and worked it out. What fun

 

[chicken joe]

good to hear

 

[Kevmohara]

Another thing you can try is using an 1/8" burr bit with a round head. You can cut through taps and easy outs with it but in the event that you do break one of those and theres no chance of getting it out with an extraction tool you can cut the bolt into 2 pieces. It will make 2 small grooves in the threads but as long as you make small cuts you will have no problem threading the bolt back in and its fairly quick.