Cheers guys, thanks for the advice.
The manifold will now live out the rest of it's days on my mates 300 bar 7's, which he was diving as indies, but in a deal which I can't understand, I have ended up with a new revamped set of manifolded 12's.
Everyones's happy.
cheers
steve
ps, I did think of machining the manifold down to the same depth as a 232 set so that the seating would be brought forward. ooohh, the shame of it!!
