so jay and kelly here is your calling lol!

My plate is pretty full at the moment but I'm still looking for someone with an active Cammer build that wants (to run) a single carb or IR Inline Carb system.

Jay, maybe you should enlist those Inlines of yours in some Cammer duty!

Best,
Kelly

I also made a set of IR manifolds to fit Jay's adapter too. Here's the Complete FE IR Inline system. It's for sale. More details at my website.

https://inlinecarb.com/parts--systems-for-sale.html

Best,
Kelly

Fantastic Work Kelly!

Not to steal your thunder, but the MEL Blower Intake is getting closer to becoming real as well.

That looks quite nice. Was the casting from a 3D sand printed mold?

Best,
Kelly

Jay,

As you're considering your Tunnel Port IR Inline intake, I posted my rendition for you MR Adapter in the projects and classified section.

http://fepower.net/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=11999.msg136864#msg136864

Might give you a few ideas.

Best,
Kelly

I made these FE Inline Carb systems for use with Jay's intake adapter. All details and pricing for these and other systems are available my website link below by selecting the downloadable file with the respective blue buttons. Most have descriptive videos as well. Don't mean to send you on a link clicking chase but the easiest way for me to keep up to date details on pricing and availability rather than posting them all over the internet.

https://inlinecarb.com/parts--systems-for-sale.html

Direct Links to YouTube videos:

https://youtu.be/kROevUxmiL4
https://youtu.be/LyLm5HlmKeI

Best,
Kelly

Rather than valve cover rail or modest port misalignment, another, or perhaps the bigger issue is how well the mounting holes line up. Assuming the heads and intake are at or near OE spec dimension, is the reason the valve cover rails are low due to rail height merely being machined too low or has more/incorrect amount of material been machined from the intake faces? Or was the intake intended to use a .125 gasket (seems unlikely). You do have a standard thickness head gasket installed....correct?

Increasing the intake gasket thickness .062 will raise the VC rail the same, but it will also move the mounting hole locations on the intake in respect to the head, somewhere between .062 and .062/sqrt2 depending upon the angle of the hole. A vertical hole (45 degrees to head face) won't change at all.

Unless the mounting holes are grossly over size, that is likely greater than the radial clearance of the intake mounting hole to the bolt, so that means your intake could land on the sides of the bolts before it seats on the gasket..........very bad......no seal.

Before you buy a .125" intake gasket, see if you can install mounting bolts with your present gasket, and then do same with two .062 gaskets.

Best,
Kelly

The cotton smoke around the rear tires made me smile......never seen that before. Now you need an aerosol can that smells like high octane and burnin rubber, with high decibel recording of engine at launch Rs. Fun touch for the show. -Great work, great ride.

Best,
Kelly

.......and being a fairly inexperienced mechanic, I would not have known what to look for.  It's too bad, because the car ran really hard after overcoming the initial stumble...

My how times change. If you ever get the itch again, you know where to find me. 

When I was young, I knew guys that hated AFBs and QuadraJets but I also knew guys that could work magic with them. I had drag racing friends that loved their variable venturi Predator carbs and did very well with them. I had a fella that drag raced IR Inlines and he actually locked out the accelerator pumps because he launched at high Rs, was tuned for that range, and never fell out of it or needed the enrichment circuits.

......but it's pretty hard to beat a good old Holley. They are practical, do the job well, and well known to many.

I think it really comes down to what you're familiar with and invested in as far as tuning parts and experience. I like good horse sense tuners though and will take a great engine tuner over deep pockets.

One of my favorites is with the Cross Boss Inline Carb Plenum intake for the B302. The runners on that intake are horizontal and nested across the valley and the exposed to the plenum on the opposite cylinder bank. The #5 runner is the first one from front to back and it has a big dent in it to clear the distributor. If you get the system in tune per an A/F meter, you'll miss the fact that #5 runs lean (and to a lesser extent #1) unless you read plugs, or maybe EGT. To this day, there is a fella on the B2 forum that claims the CB intake is junk without radical surgery. 30 years ago, I had a fella tell me to just run one or two size larger main jets in the front carb bore......problem solved.

Best,
Kelly