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Title: Where there's a will...
Post by: C8OZ on July 12, 2019, 04:26:49 PM

Here's an approach you don't see every day.  :o

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1963-Ford-FE-427-Intake-Manifold-Possible-Ford-R-D-390-406-352/173962853927?hash=item2880fe7e27:g:gV4AAOSwd7RdKO6c

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: Bolted to Floor on July 12, 2019, 04:35:24 PM

That looks like they waisted a good manifold.  ???

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: wowens on July 12, 2019, 09:00:17 PM

That should be in a joke section  :)

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: Stangman on July 12, 2019, 09:05:51 PM

5-to 800 dollars down the drain :o

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: gregaba on July 13, 2019, 09:01:50 AM

Looks like someone had one to many 6 packs and a brilliant ideal the same night.
I don't think Ford would put out something with the machine work so bad even experimental.
Greg

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: C8OZ on July 13, 2019, 10:18:02 AM

Quote from: gregaba on July 13, 2019, 09:01:50 AM

Looks like someone had one to many 6 packs and a brilliant ideal the same night.

No doubt. Ugly as it is, I have to stop just short of calling it a failure. I grew up watching guys spend tons of money trying to beat cars with similar "engineering."

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: WConley on July 13, 2019, 10:32:56 AM

My guess - Somebody was studying valve motion with a strobe light.  Those tubes are positioned perfectly for a straight shot at the intake valve, and there's no mounting flange for anything else on the end of the tube.

Too bad they had to use a good intake!

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: badcatt on July 13, 2019, 11:13:59 AM

Posting a picture of this manifold so it will be here longer then the Ebay auction.
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/HscAAOSw6o9dKO7X/s-l1600.jpg)

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: TomP on July 13, 2019, 01:28:07 PM

More "mental" then "experi", looks like steel tubes, am iron 2V intake would have worked.

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: AlanCasida on July 13, 2019, 05:38:30 PM

By the way the ends of the tubes are cut my guess is it was a homemade tunnel ram at some point and the top half has been cut off. 

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: WConley on July 13, 2019, 06:27:41 PM

Home-made tunnel ram.  Makes a lot of sense now that you mention it.  Why else would the original carb pads be all sealed up?

I hadn't thought of those tubes being cut off.

Title: Re: Where there's a will...
Post by: falcongeorge on July 14, 2019, 09:00:12 PM

ok starting point for a home-made 6-71 intake, but too much $$.