Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
Yeah, I know the current trend is the nostalgia/rat rod look with tons of carbs on the engine, but to be honest they weren't all that hot back "in the day." In the early years of hot rodding we were trying everything to get more power, and we had very few places to buy ready made items, like we do today. So some really strange things started appearing on cars. Homemade intake manifolds of every description began to show up, including the log manifolds mentioned above. Because modern 4 barrel carbs hadn't shown up yet, we resorted to what we had and usually these were the old strombergs.

However, the strombergs were known to leak fuel very often, and I understand recent developments by people who still build flathead parts have pretty much cured that ailment. Also, as mentioned, 97's are starting to get very very pricey. If you think the rochesters would be a problem, unless you have some UK source for strombergs that I don't know about, you are really going to lay out some shillings for the strombergs.

The motorcycle carbs are probably a good idea from the standpoint of worldwide availability. Maybe there are some English cars that use something similar to the way strombergs mount and will give you that look.

Good luck,


Don
maybe give it a cross ram look using some carbs off of a yamaha xs1100 special.... i have 3 of those bikes 4 cyl 4 carbs, you'd only need to find to bikes in the junkyard and you'd be set..... the yamaha carbs are very well built carbs and easy to synchronize... they also each have their own K&N filter on them so they'd look pretty nifty on a homemade manifold