Edelbrock 2-4 Y-Block intake.


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By DANIEL TINDER - 15 Years Ago
FYI: Spotted in a corner of local NW Indiana machine shop. Very clean looking/small pattern type. I know they would like to sell it, but price didn't come up.
By Flying Jester - 15 Years Ago
I've been thinking about that kind of intake for a while, and I have to ask: The Y-Block shouldn't need more than 500 CFM. I can understand 6 barrels of power, that's a little over the top but it is really cool. Isn't 8 Barrels of freedom gonna make the engine run horrible? Are these very small 4bbls that go on this intake? Or can the Y take an extraordinarily excessive amount of kick when you hit the gas?
By DANIEL TINDER - 15 Years Ago
I would think anyone with an E-Bird could say if that combo is streetable or not.

Karol Miller (150 mph/301 c.i.) & Vic Sr. ("300 Honest HP") proved that same intake can work on a Y-Block, but then they likely weren't all that concerned with diveability.
By Bob's 55 - 15 Years Ago
Flying Jester (1/29/2010)
I can understand 6 barrels of power, that's a little over the top but it is really cool.




Strombergs 97's are rated at ~155 cfm for a total of ~465 cfm. Not over the top but I agree they look cool. And that is what I have on my Y-Block. Just thought I would throw that out there.



Not sure what the teapot's or WCFB's are rated at... I have one of the Edlebrock manifolds you describe sitting on the self with a pair of Holley 4 barrels (sorry don't recall #) sitting sideways on it. Never run it though, I bought it at the swap because the price was right and it looked cool (so now it looks cool on my self instead of someone elses, haha).
By Daniel Jessup - 15 Years Ago
my dad bought a 1956 Ford Customline Victoria with a bored and stroked 312 with G heads, E4 cam, etc. It had Ford's 2 four ballel intake and the teapots. He bought the car off the Chrylser (not a misprint) showroom floor in 1969 in Mt Airy, NC. There was a good reason that car was on the showroom floor. Nothing in town could touch it. SCARY fast, he said, and so have all of the old timers I have talked to around town. Dad said the only trouble he had was keeping them in "tune", but he said a local mechanic would always "tinker" with them whenever dad pulled in and then the things would smoke the tires. He burnt out 3 Ford rear ends (didn't have the nine inch), tore up a couple of transmissions, the usual.

Come to find out, the car was moonshiner's vehicle he had traded in for a new MOPAR....w00t

Unfortunately, the car was rear ended by a drunk on Christmas Eve. The 56 was parked at the time, and the driver hit it so hard that the frame was bent and it was pretty much a total loss according to the insurance company. Dad traded the car for a piece of land (about 3 acres) and the buyer parked it on one of his farms. Where the car is today, who knows....

By Hoosier Hurricane - 15 Years Ago
I have the factory dual fours on my '56 Bird, and it drives fine.  It has the original 2-4 teapots, which are a little different from the single four ones.  In the past I have used the single four carbs, and an off-idle stumble resulted.  I do have a mechanical advance distributor instead of the loadomatic.