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.

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

OK ...

Someone please enlighten me. Did he lower the engine?

Just when you thought you saw it all ...

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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

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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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.

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. 

Few years back I saw Inglese was making side draft carbs, they even had adapters to bolt two side draft carbs to a single 4V intake manifold.  The hotrod I wanted to build I seriously thought of running a dual quad intake with two of these adapters and having four webber side draft carbs for a older look.

Looks like now all they got are the EZ-EFI 1.0 and 2.0 side draft carb setups.  Sucks though as the carb setup was like $1,000 for the adapter and two side draft 2V carbs.  This set now in efi is $3,000 now.


1956 Ford Fairlane Town Sedan - 292 Y8 - Ford-O-Matic - 155,000 mi

Thanks for the input.  I hope you guys don't mind all my posts.  Y Blocks are addictive.   I've done some measuring using the Edelbrock 573 and the three Holley 94s I have. There is no question, the 573 with three Holley 94s will fit under my hood without air cleaners. They may even fit with the small filters in the photo above.  The rear carb is the only possible issue as the hood has a seam running in the back of the scoop. Charlie told me some people mill the rear carb pad to get extra clearance.  I don't believe that will be necessary in my case.

I like the look of the naked carbs and low screens like they used to run on the VW Bug Spray 94s.   I've pretty much discounted the WCFBs as they are too expensive and would require so much work.  I found out there are a number of companies manufacturing new repro Holley 94s. Edlebrock is one of them.  The nicest setup I have seen so far is from Vintage Speed.  I'm going to drive down next week and check them out.

Phil, those are tough choices. Just some random thoughts.

If someone on here has an offy manifold off the car, and is willing to lay it on the bench with a straight edge across the fore/aft axis, they can give you a height measurement at the front and back. You can compare your Edelbrock. As I mentioned earlier I had to take about a 1/4” inch out of the rear filter element for clearance.

Drylakesracer has some post about his dual quads, WCFB’s if I recall right. He might be able to give some additional info. I’d be contacting Sal Sciala on the Ford Barn (he’s occasionally here) or carbking on the HAMB. I think those guys (I’m sure there’s more) would be able to fully restore the carbs and give you a good starting point.

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

Here what I did on my stock motor, since changed

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