Thread: Budget T-Bucket Builder

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YblockT: I have a tip for you and anyone else wanting to run 4,6, or 8 carbs on the street. These systems were designed strictly for high RPM racing and are very problematic on a street machine with flooding, bad idle,stalling, etc. But heres a trick I've used to eliminate those problems and still have the AWESOME look of 6 carbs on a roadster. run two rebuilt carbs,one on each side. the other four are actually dummies with the throttle plates removed, fuel inlet fittings blocked (I braze mine closed) and thin aluminum block-off plates (beer cans work good-they can be cut with scissors)cut using the base gasket for a template, sandwiched between the carb and the manifold. Log manifolds are easy to make,and if you have one of those neat 50s engines (Caddy, Olds,Studebaker, or especially one of the early Hemis) and find Performance manifolds on e-bay like looking for a needle in a haystack, this could be an out for you. You can chrome the valve covers, get six bonnets, and run a basically stock engine this way. You don't have to mess with progressive linkage and can watch all the carbs working and NOBODDY can tell they're not real. Hope this brings out some of those engines. Chester

Welcome to the forum. We had a guy on here building a T for something like $ 3K, but he failed miserably. Hope you do better than him.

Y blocks are very cool, and very overlooked. Keep us posted on your progress.

BTW, if you loved Kookies T like I did, get the video "The car that ate my brain." It has things in it you have probably never seen before on Norms car.

Don