1951 Pontiac Chieftain

[DodgeRover]

What about hanging 4 Delortos off the side of it if you are building a manifold or 8 bike carbs?

[PhilA]

What about hanging 4 Delortos off the side of it if you are building a manifold or 8 bike carbs?

That would be fun if the intakes weren't siamesed. So, 4 intake ports on the engine, 2 cylinders each and timed such that there's the same pause on each so the intake charge pulses are at least the same on each port.

A single 4bbl Holley would suffice but I figured I'd I was going to, might as well go factory looking in terms of carburetors. The carb on it is easily tuneable, the needles are a piece of piss to change (they hide under the top cap. 2 screws and you can lift them out without getting fuel everywhere) and they're about 350cfm.
So, it would be running a 2.2 litre 4 cylinder engine. That's about the limit for size- physically too each barrel is about the same diameter and flow of the intake port it would be feeding.

The exhaust would be a fun spaghetti to keep everything the same length.

It's all about the torque, about the torque no power.

Phil

[Hooli]

Torque is real power. Engines that make eleven billionty BHP at ninety billion RPM but can't pull at idle feel gutless & awful.

[PhilA]

This is happy pootling along under 800 rpm all day long.

[PhilA]

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New carburetor. Ooh.

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Baby, don't be so mean!

That one is staying on there, I think.


--Phil

[Hooli]

That sounds lovely.

[PhilA]

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I adjusted the auto-choke. It was running a little rich.

Phil

[mercrocker]

Responding very sweetly.....

[MLOR]

That was the Smoke Screen setting for when your being chased by the Feds

[PhilA]

It's one of those engines that you try and figure how, with how it was set, was it even running.

I can see how the carburetor was all clogged up when I got it...

Phil