Just a thought....this thing begs for a fuel injection conversion. A fuel injected 292 could kick butt on a small V8. For corners, the float bowl problems are gone, the altitude problems are gone, the cold start problems are gone....gee, kinda like the reasons to switch to fuel injection. Jeep has a retrofit kit for their 4.0 that was pre fuel injection.....others vendors have rather universal f.i. kits.....it would be neat to have....

The problem with a carb manifold on an inline six is the runner length quandry....too short or too long, pick your cylinder. The manifolds available suck, they are designed to fit stock engines and to be cheap to build. Some folks used Mukini (sp?) carbs off of a bike or Webers and fabricated a manifold to hold three carbs. I think I remember a setup using three Keihins (sp?) off of a Honda bike. Never the less, fuel injection is the ticket. When you choose your cam, f.i. likes a certain overlap....your injection setup supplier should be able to help you.... for a 350 Chev, the number was 112 deg as I remember.