How red will my neck be when I have 8 barrels?
The first "test" carb showed up today.
I wanted to see first hand how tall these damn things are, and how the bore spacing will transpose over the intake ports in the heads. These things are pretty big,...but four of the exact same pieces have been ran on 289's, and 302's for decades, so I'm sure I'll find a way to make em work.
One things for sure,...they are gonna stick all kinds of out of the hood, as they are slightly wider than the bore spacing, so I'll have to have a pretty decent "riser" to allow me to transition the port smoothly. As you can see,..they are a little over 7" tall,...and I'm thinking I'm gonna have to have a 1.750-2.00" riser to allow the slight bend from the wider throttle bores.
That's 9" sticking above the deck of the intake mating surface. Probably see the entire aluminum velocity stack hanging out of the hood.
For all of the bad rap they get, they are amazing simple. A 48mm bore that is "choked" down to 37mm w/ a drop in insert. Adjustable air bleeds, and tunable main jets are all accessed through the top of the carburetor w/o ever having to open the "wet" parts of the carb.
This dude cost 299.00 shipped. While it looks like a Weber, it's not. It is a Chinese EMPI. A Blatant Weber clone. Not sure how they got away w/o copyright infringement,....but today,...not my worry.
All I know is EMPI has been making this carburetor for years for the VeeDub guys,...so they must not be that bad.
As an addition,....I've read that the Weber 48IDA is now made in Spain, and is not w/o it's own production and quality issues, but still costs an additional 240.00 ea.
Not willing to spend an additional 1000.00 just to say those 8 holes are true Webers.
Hopefully, it's ok,...because by the time this thing runs,...it'll be 2013 easy
I'll buy another soon, and the fabrication will begin.
The first "test" carb showed up today.
I wanted to see first hand how tall these damn things are, and how the bore spacing will transpose over the intake ports in the heads. These things are pretty big,...but four of the exact same pieces have been ran on 289's, and 302's for decades, so I'm sure I'll find a way to make em work.
One things for sure,...they are gonna stick all kinds of out of the hood, as they are slightly wider than the bore spacing, so I'll have to have a pretty decent "riser" to allow me to transition the port smoothly. As you can see,..they are a little over 7" tall,...and I'm thinking I'm gonna have to have a 1.750-2.00" riser to allow the slight bend from the wider throttle bores.
That's 9" sticking above the deck of the intake mating surface. Probably see the entire aluminum velocity stack hanging out of the hood.
For all of the bad rap they get, they are amazing simple. A 48mm bore that is "choked" down to 37mm w/ a drop in insert. Adjustable air bleeds, and tunable main jets are all accessed through the top of the carburetor w/o ever having to open the "wet" parts of the carb.
This dude cost 299.00 shipped. While it looks like a Weber, it's not. It is a Chinese EMPI. A Blatant Weber clone. Not sure how they got away w/o copyright infringement,....but today,...not my worry.
All I know is EMPI has been making this carburetor for years for the VeeDub guys,...so they must not be that bad.
As an addition,....I've read that the Weber 48IDA is now made in Spain, and is not w/o it's own production and quality issues, but still costs an additional 240.00 ea.
Not willing to spend an additional 1000.00 just to say those 8 holes are true Webers.
Hopefully, it's ok,...because by the time this thing runs,...it'll be 2013 easy
I'll buy another soon, and the fabrication will begin.