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C8OZ

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Where there's a will...
« on: July 12, 2019, 04:26:49 PM »
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2019, 04:35:24 PM »
That looks like they waisted a good manifold.  ???
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2019, 09:00:17 PM »
That should be in a joke section  :)
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2019, 09:05:51 PM »
5-to 800 dollars down the drain :o
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #5 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."
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #6 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!
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2019, 11:13:59 AM »
Posting a picture of this manifold so it will be here longer then the Ebay auction.
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2019, 01:28:07 PM »
More "mental" then "experi", looks like steel tubes, am iron 2V intake would have worked.
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #9 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. 
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Where there's a will...
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2019, 09:00:12 PM »
ok starting point for a home-made 6-71 intake, but too much $$.
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