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Greetings . . .

Just spied this on ebay:

Quad Single with Stromberg adapters
Just what the doctor ordered for over carbureting an inline . . .

stock49

Sometimes you just have to laugh!

It probably would have worked good on a 50s lakester.

JM......

Works for me


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It is a funny lookin' thing, but i remember seeing a lot of things that looked like that, fifty years ago or so. Somebody saw a picture of a Howard GMC manifold in a magazine, and said to himself, "I can do that." And he did . . . sort of. He had the skills and the tools to make something he wanted out of what he had to hand, and the courage to try it out and learn from it. Several people who became famous and died full of honor started out in just that way, making what they needed to do what they wanted. They learned by doing, and we have learned from what they did, including especially their mistakes.

If we knew the history of that piece and the person who made it, the story might turn out to be truly interesting. Surely he was an Inliner!

God's Peace to you.

d
Inliner # 1450

i bought a large lot of old hot rod and hop up mags. from the late 50's there are a lot of articles on how to make your own manifolds one for inlines the other for the new chrysler hemi.
i even made some myself.

When you take into account manufacturing limitations and the fact they have to build to the "average" engine, I think a person could build a better one right at home if you used basic design criteria, ie. find out the best plenum size for the engine/rpm, plan for the cfm needs of the engine/rpm range and use the correct diameter/length runners. Heat is good for street and not for racing. Lots of people do it all the time!

that would be a good design for the manifold for a turbo setup, just instead of carb flanges, weld in bungs for injectors on each runner, and put a throttle body at the front end of it.