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.

John - "The Hoosier Hurricane"

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....

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....

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com

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).

BOB

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.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

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?

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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.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA