intake on 54


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By hotdoger1 - 11 Years Ago
will a 57 intake fit on a 54 239 engine. forgot to say I have a 57 on a 56 now and it works good. so I guess the 239 is the oddball
By NoShortcuts - 11 Years Ago
Hmmmm...

'57 up later 2 or 4 barrel intake will physically bolt into place on the '54 239 / 256, BUT I believe that the port alignment will be marginal at best.  A set of intake manifold gaskets for each application would confirm this.

IMO, a better way to go would be to secure a '54 Mercury or '55 Ford or Mercury 4 barrel intake.  Adapters for the later style four barrel carburetor base are available from 'Speedway Motors' in Nebraska and Charlie Price's 'Vintage Speed' in Florida.

The earlier four barrel intake manifold will preserve port alignment and with the smaller cubic inch engine, the smaller intake ports should maintain low speed throttle response.

Food for thought.  Smile
By charliemccraney - 11 Years Ago
People have done it but you are better off to use a '54, or '55 or '56 intake.
By pintoplumber - 11 Years Ago
I did it back in '03. It worked for about a year and a half before it started leaking. It's tough to get it sealed. Right now I'm running an edelbrock 354 on big port G heads. To get it to work, I've glued a 54 intake gasket to a 57 gasket and sealed the mismatch. I'm hoping to change to a 357 this spring yet and eliminate the mismatch.
By Lou - 11 Years Ago
Use only a 54 Ford 239 or Mercury 256  intake, otherwise it more trouble than it's worth.
By slumlord444 - 11 Years Ago
I have a '55 intake I would sell if it will work.
By NoShortcuts - 11 Years Ago
This reaching back stuff is getting tough (for me).

I'm thinking that Lou is right.  Dennis' input is swaying me, too.  I'm thinking that the '54 Ford and Merc heads and intakes WERE unique with their porting.

Didn't Edelbrock list different intake manifolds for the '54, '55 - '56, and then the '57 up series of y-block engines?

My first engine 'modification' was putting a '54 Merc 256 intake and carb on a '54 Ford 239.  After that I swapped '55 Ford 272 dual exhaust manifolds onto the same engine.  Fun!  Smile
By pintoplumber - 11 Years Ago
I know on the 3x2 intakes, edelbrock made the 354 for 54, 553 for 55 and 573 for 57.