Well as some will know I recently found out about the intake manifold on my 56 Fairlane to be a 1960 2V manifold with a 1974 2V motorcraft carb.

While snooping around in the shed for paperwork I found a oil can spout as well as a transmission can spout. I brought both of these home, as well as a galvanized funnel.

I also brought this little treasure I found home, first photo is before cleaning up and the second photo is after cleaning.





Found this orignal 4V Holley Teapot carb and orignal 4V 292 manifold sitting on a piece of plyboard under a old carpet. I didnt even know it was there till I kicked it and was wondering what the hell it was since it was something hard. Lifted the rug up some and saw it. Desided to bring it home but I just have to say that really made my day though. First finding more paperwork pertaining to the car maintance wise or just plain general paperwork down to finding these two can spouts for oil and transmission fluid. I even think the floor mat in the back is orignal Ford product but I cant be sure. Doesnt say ford but the mat on the underside is blue like the interior and its pretty fancy.

But besides all that I think I will clean this manifold up and carb up and rebuild it and put it in its rightful place on the engine. If I run into any leaking problems I will probably just pull the manifold off and put the newer one with the 2V on it. Personally I think the engine would run better and get better fuel economy with a 4V vac secondary carb over a plain 2V.

 

wow, those tall 4 bbl cars are over $600 used when the word "t-bird" is mentioned. I've got a dual quad Y-block manifold that fits these, stupid me, I didn'thave the $75 to buy the two carbs in 1975. They had these on the ford 500 72 passenger busses I drove in college 68-72, reliability was fine on the 332 y-block in 56 fords. Those busses really had no issues, ran fine until the brakes (air over hydraulic) went obsolete in 1974.

 

The carb is in good shape. Alittle stiff but good. Need to get new choke tubes though. The inlet one broke when I was trying to pull it out of the rubber grommet and the outlet tube is missing.

I found a few places that sells all those tubes but I was amazed a automatic hot air choke on this carb at one of the places had a price tag of $250. A rebuilt Holley 4000 like this was selling on the same site for $200. Unless one or the other was a typo.

My only concern is how I repair the exhaust manifold cause with the newer intake and carb the mechanic that did the swap drilled a hole and screw a hot air pipe into that for the choke. I do have to check but I think it might be a newer exhaust manifold but if not I am thinking of putting some kind of very hightemp thread locker and screw a bolt into it and grind it off. Hopefully that and a cast iron powdercoat will keep it locked in place.

Tee-Bird Products has one but a few hundred for a reproduction exhaust manifold is kind of high to me but I might have to go that route if that is the orignal manifold and I cant repair the hole drilled in.