Sorry for the double post, fat fingers on an I-phone....

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

Thanks for your response Ted, I appreciate your getting back to me in such a timely manner. I know you are a busy man and I am in no big hurry. My e-mail was just about a couple of the spacers I saw in some of the pics on your test engines for the intakes and heads. You have actually answered me here. I will looking forward to reading your results on the spacers in your last post. Did you make them or are they someone else's? Do you have an idea of what the cost will be? Again thanks.
62 Bigwindow, I looked on line and only found one that said it (offy cross ram) was for a ford, or Merc and it didn't say what engine type, y-block, sb, fe, but the price didn't seem unreasonable, $270 shipped. Maybe because I'm a dinosaur when it comes to this web thing, I couldn't find any others. You say there are a lot of them for sale with linkage, do you suppose you could maybe post a link for me to go to? That would be great! Again, I LOVE this forum and the way you fellas help out us newbies to the Y. Many thanks all around! Rowen

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

Thanks for your response Ted, I appreciate your getting back to me in such a timely manner. I know you are a busy man and I am in no big hurry. My e-mail was just about a couple of the spacers I saw in some of the pics on your test engines for the intakes and heads. You have actually answered me here. I will looking forward to reading your results

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

Rowen.  I haven’t received an email from you yet but it could eventually show up.  I’ve had some difficulty this week with the Yahoo email account that the other email accounts are directed to so there’s a strong possibility that the problem with your ‘sent’ email is on my end.  You might try resending the message again so I can answer any specifics you had.
  
Here’s a picture of some Teapot/WCFB carburetor spacers being tested this upcoming weekend on a Teapot equipped dual quad intake.  These spacers are ¼”, 1.00”, and 2.00” in height.
 

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

There are gobs of the Offy cross ram adapters and linkage kits on Ebay. Not sure of your budget but I think a set of those would make your engine stand out at any show.

Durham Missouri

Charlie, I sent a e-mail to Ted this morning asking about those 2" spacers. He's a busy man, so ill give him a few days and see if he gets back to me. If not, ill call maybe late next week. Those Offenhouser (?) "cross ram" spacers/runners are awsome looking! Unfortunately, with my budget I'm afraid they are WAY out of my reach, assuming I could even find some. Thanks fellas for showing interest. I have quite a while before I actually start the build so ill keep looking till i find just the "right" set up. Appreciation all around, Rowen

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

I don't think you'll have any problem stacking 2 spacers.

Looking at the Edelbrock manifold with adapters  for new carbs in Ted's article, it looks like a 2" spread bore spacer could be modified quite easily for use with a T-pot, if you only want to use one spacer..



Lawrenceville, GA

Yep, I've read every word in both of those articals. I was happy to see the results of the 9425 D. Wasn't the best but it wasn't the worst either. Also I really like the look of the teapots on top, they are a TALL carb. I also saw that he had two spacers (which I have) sittin under them. . I'm kinda liking the velocity stacks. They look a little sinister, and THAT'S the look I'm going for. I have already removed the skirts, the wide whites, and the full wheel covers, wraped and boxed them up. No, they are not for sale. :0) I painted the wheels black, new black wall radials and some 50 dog dish hub caps. Got a lot of compliments on her at the CAM (California Automobile Museum) cruise and show last weekend. Thanks for all the comments and advice. You can bet ill be back for more!! Rowen

Rowen
55CV
Woodland, Ca

At the recent "Rodder Days" here in Tucson, there was a Ford coupe with a "Y" - that had a pair of Offy adapters bolted on a dual four manifold. They lifted the two carbs about 5"-6" and offset one in each direction like a "cross-ram". I didn't photograph the combo - but I've seen those 90º offset Offenhauser parts on epay a few times.........not cheap as I recall.  

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

The 'E' set-ups on the '57 'Birds used a 3/16 inch aluminum spacer between the Holley 4000s and the intake manifold.  -That's all Ford had room for under the 'Bird hood.  The Ford passenger car 'E' set-ups used a 1/2 inch phenolic plastic spacer between the Holley 4000s and the intake manifold.

In going along with Charlie's comment...  Any effort to isolate the carb from the FoMoCo original 'air gap' style aluminum intake manifold should help to reduce carb and fuel bowl temperature.  Ted Eaton did quite a bit of dyno testing of various y-block 2x4 set-ups.  Click the links below for some good info. to tease your thinking...  

http://www.eatonbalancing.com/blog/2014/01/15/y-block-ford-dual-quad-testing-on-iron-heads-part-i/
AND
http://www.eatonbalancing.com/blog/2014/01/17/y-block-ford-dual-quad-testing-on-aluminum-heads-part-ii/

NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York