I thought of that myself.  Vintage Speed makes an adapter to fit 2 Holley 94s on a modern Holley 4 intake. You could use two of these adapters with 2 94s each on a dual quad intake to make an 8V setup.  You would have to cobble up some linkage, but it would look very cool.  It might even fit under my hood.  Crazy thoughts are my specialty. 

Florida, There is a guy out there I found him on either the HAMB or somewhere else  who has put the adapters on a y-block and is using 4 94's or 97's. I made a comment if he was going to run all 4 or figure out a progressive set up 2 and 2. It was going in a 51-52 Ford pick-up with a chopped top and was all together on an engine stand in his photo.

As for putting dual quads on a 55-56 T-Birds the kit that was available for the 56 law enforcement cars was also available for the Birds with the tea-pots mounted backwards like the 57; so they will fit under the hood of a 56. 

Yes, matched number WCFB's are getting expensive. I bought mine for under $400 each and one looked near new in a box from 1953. I'll bet it was a replacement take off. I started out with one 53 Cadillac and one Oldsmobile and then found the second Olds. I made my own linkage and linkage adapters to the carb stock linkage. It wasn't hard for a gear head.

I've really never had any problems with either carb in the 5 years they have been on. I made an adapter to a Uni-Syn and have only checked them once. I do use 1 oz of Stabil in every tank of gas religiously.

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

miker Posted

Here’s the air cleaner Doane Spencer had on his dual quad 55.

The application shown has a H-D-4 (H4150) which requires carb  adapters. It also has a TRANS-AM style RAM-AIR ACL. He must have punched the hood or put on a fiberglass hood for clearance.

I bet it looks nice being a SHAKER ...

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Here's a thread from a while ago about it.  No shaker. Probably just ingenuity and $$$.

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic103501.aspx



Lawrenceville, GA

OK ...

Someone please enlighten me. Did he lower the engine?

Just when you thought you saw it all ...

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It wasn’t lowered much if at all. The article points out a hand made intake manifold. The old article by Kirk White said Spencer built the air cleaner in a morning, hand formed aluminum. His skills were very high.

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

Doans manifold could been a 56 Ford or one of the 255's from Edelbrock and then milled at least 1/2" off it. This would have helped with the low profile. Since the air cleaner resembled a stock 55-6 and mounted to the carbs it could have been higher that the hood with hole cut giving the illusion of being stock height.

56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

Attached the post to the wrong thread ...

The man has talent, no question about that.

I just don't understand the ACL. If he went to all that trouble, why not fab a real shaker? Guess he is trying to immolate a theme I never came across.

Anyone pay attention to the dueling SINGLE RESERVOIR MC's? He must be into road racing?

The radiator, could it be related to the 57 BIRD D/F Code?

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... immolate ...?

Where did I get that one from? I guess I need an update for my FUNK  & WAGNAL

The word is emulate dumba$$...

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Maybe someone will find this info helpful regarding 3X2-

http://www.thecarburetorshop.com/Aftermarkettripowersetups.htm

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This is an interesting article.  The author recommends using three primary carbs and linking them with direct linkage. He says if you use one primary carb, the center carb may not be big enough and the throttle transition from one carb to three is difficult to tune.  I ran three 94s on a 312 years ago and I used three primaries.  It was somewhat difficult to get to idle properly, but I don't remember any issues when stomping on the throttle.  I did not use a Uni-Syn.  I will now. This question has come up before.  Should I run one primary and two secondaries or three primaries?  I would be interested in what linkage other tripower users are running.

The articles I have read said most tripower bad idle issues are caused by leaky throttle blades.  With new 94s now available, that could be avoided.