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Dec 2, 2009 | 12:25 PM

53rat

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Help with carb ID

If someone can help me identify these carbs, i'd appreciate it.

Dec 2, 2009 | 04:52 PM

51PanelMan

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If someone can help me identify these carbs, i'd appreciate it.

Look to be Holley 1904. Used on 52 and up Ford 6 cyl engines, as well as some Studebaker engines.

There's also a two-carb exhaust manifold available. The double and the triple are available for sale from Offenhauser, I think.

One of these days, I'll get a double or triple manifold in my Panel.

Dec 2, 2009 | 05:20 PM

53rat

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How much is something like this worth?

Dec 2, 2009 | 05:42 PM

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Those are indeed 1904s, but not the more desirable earlier Visiflow style that had the glass float bowl. These would have been later and, like Ilya said, were used by several manufacturers. Another big user was IHC. Value on the manifold I have no idea, but the carb cores go on ebay for sometimes $50 plus/minus each. Rebuilt Visiflows are spendy. Stu

Dec 2, 2009 | 09:15 PM

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Here's brand new dual carb set up: Phethean Racing Products - Offenhauser

Here's brand new triple carb set up: Phethean Racing Products - Offenhauser

Here's one that allows you to put a new style 2bbl or 4bbl carb:
Clifford Performance: 43-4501 Ford 216-223-262 Ram Flow Water Heated Manifold

Clifford performance also sells headers for 215 and 223 engines.

Stu is right about the "glass bowl" 1904 carburaters. I think that I have two or three glass bowl carbs that all require a rebuild. I have a couple more that have the metal bowl. There was a remanufactured 1904 with the glass bowl on eBay about a week and a half ago. It sold for around $125 or so.

Look for a local place that will rebuild your carb. There's a place here that'll charge me about $120 (shop cost) to rebuild one. Retail is around $150.

If you don't have the carbs already, then I don't think that $500 is a bad price for it. If they're good carbs, then consider them to be $50-75 each. New triple carb set up offy is $370. Offer him $400 if you're serious about it.

You're lucky that I ran out of my "fun"ds. Otherwise, I'd get that set up in a heartbeat.

Dec 2, 2009 | 10:33 PM

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LOL, the glass bowls may be "nostalgic" but most people weep with joy when they replace the leaky SOB's with the metal ones.

Ilya, what did you mean by a "two-carb exhaust manifold"?

Dec 3, 2009 | 12:02 AM

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LOL, the glass bowls may be "nostalgic" but most people weep with joy when they replace the leaky SOB's with the metal ones.

Ilya, what did you mean by a "two-carb exhaust manifold"?

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You probably mean what I had previously wrote in my post "two dual carb". That was a mistype. Supposed to be dual carb. I meant two carbs. I corrected my original post.

We'll see if the glass bowl leaks in mine after I have it rebuilt. That's the beauty of having a professional outfit do it, there's a warranty.