Thread: Oklahoma, Duncan Swap Meet

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Originally Posted by rspears

Add up the prices for new parts from Summit, and toss in $100 to $150 for either repop or vintage 'vette valve covers on evilBay and you'll be in the $1600 to $1800 range. Or you can pay almost double for the unknown of somebody's old carbs sitting on an old manifold with unknown history? Yes, we've had inflation and it's 2016 but seriously? Then again it's a very, very nice orange box.....



IMO it will be a B#*%h to start, especially in cold weather. By the time you dump in enough fuel to bring that large volume of air in the elevated tunnel ram to a F/A ratio good for ignition you stand a good chance of flooding it, and if you flood it you'd better have a strong battery and starter to be able to crank it enough to lean out the huge F/A charge that's saturated in the intake. It's for looks only, IMO.

Actually Roger, I know the guy with the truck and crazy tunnel ram, I thought the same thing, but have seen him start it many times @ his shop after sitting many days and it starts with out any problem.

'52 Chevy. '68 GTO. '55 Chevy. '56 Olds. Sigh . . . did you HAVE to put photos all of my early hot rods in one post?

Seriously, thanks for the photos and the trip down memory lane. I wish I had gone. It's only a couple of hours from me.

Thanks for the pictures.

Thanks for posting your photo's Davy. I'm going to ask how to upload a photo out of the series to include in my reply as I have tried the copy and paste but it didn't work ? What I wanted to know was how well the intake on the '32 to '34 matt black pickup truck would work ? Adding an extra high box on top of a tunnel ram inlet just doesn't work in my brain and wondered if there was something I missed.

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Thanks for posting your photo's Davy. I'm going to ask how to upload a photo out of the series to include in my reply as I have tried the copy and paste but it didn't work ? What I wanted to know was how well the intake on the '32 to '34 matt black pickup truck would work ? Adding an extra high box on top of a tunnel ram inlet just doesn't work in my brain and wondered if there was something I missed.

Looks like an early single carb tunnel ram. I have a friend who has one on his gasser style rod and it works fine, except for really cold starts.... as for performance, I had one on a big block many years ago, it worked great at the track

Well hit me in the head..... it did work.

Pretty much looks like a vintage era manifold-heater hose bypass, oil fill tube hole, choke on rear carb-early vet valve covers

If you had a 57 283------------

Thanks for sharing the pics! It looked like there was something for everyone there!