Couple of Interesting Ford Intakes

[machoneman]

Initially 2V and 4V. Didn't check their website. May have now a 3V Funnelweb. Btw, hard to find here as the Aussie parts are very pricey to ship.

Bill Mitchell has what appears to be a near copy btw:

https://www.billmitchellproducts.com/products/bill-mitchell-products-intake-manifold-ford-small-block-9-500-4150-carb-flange-063415.html

[KMcCullah]

I think I'm going to have to use a 4150 to 4500 spacer on these so I can get enough carb on the engine; should be a very interesting test.

Interesting indeed! The -C58 with a Dom adaptor will look like a tunnel ram. Hopefully it will work as well. Lots of volume there.

Did you have to flycut the flanges a similar amount to the Ed 2863? I can't remember if it was for the C3 head or not. Just curious.

[jayb]

I cut both manifolds so that the roof of the ports in the manifolds matched up with the roof of the port in the intake adapter.  For the BT58 intake this was taking off 0.350", same as the Edelbrock 2863.  For the C58 intake I only had to take 0.250" off.

[jayb]

Still a fan of the now older Parker Funnelweb intake. Jay did test same some time ago IIRC but it didn't do as well as expected. Forget right now why.

On edit: now I'm unsure if Jay actually did test one!

http://parkerracing.net.au/funnelweb.html

I did test the Funnelweb, and you are correct that it didn't do that well.  However, it was not port matched to the intake adapter, and the port openings were quite small compared to the openings in the intake adapter.  I think it would have done better with a good porting job. 

When I get these two intakes back to test, after porting from Joe, I think they may give an indication of how a ported Funnelweb would do.

[jayb]

Well, as coincidence would have it I got an email today from one of my customers who is running the #13006 intake adapter and an Edelbrock 2991 intake on his 68-1/2 Cobra Jet Mustang.  The 2991 intake is similar to the Edelbrock 2863, but uses a 4150 carb flange instead of a Dominator flange.  My customer has this combination working pretty well; video of the car is below.  I'm hoping the Ford intakes work just as well.

https://youtu.be/BzTvAidbTrs

[Joe-JDC]

Test:  Couple of pictures of Edelbrock 2831 version of those two intakes.  The stock manifold flowed ~343 cfm, and I attempted to show just how much a small amount of change in the size of the port makes in airflow.  The ports are still smaller than the scribe mark the owner wanted me to open the manifold up to.  The heads are D-3, and they flow 415 cfm with 2.135" intake valve.  I have ported several sets of heads for him over the last 30 years.  Joe-JDC