Homemade 2 Barrel Intake

By Jim Peall (Written up by Karl)

"Jim Peall has made a very nice welded intake for a friends Consul by welding part of a Datsun 180B intake to the Ford Consul lower intake. The Carb used is a Weber on an adaptor that goes from the Datsun’s smaller Nikki bolt pattern to the wider Weber bolt pattern.

Jim is leaving a small lip inside the join to promote better fuel vaporising.

I myself looked into adapting a section of 10A or 12A Mazda rotary engine intake to an inline 6 intakes lower half so the Mazda's small Nikki 4 barrel carb could be used on the Zephyr 6 engine. Both engines are similar in size and the carb is a vacuum secondary one so good for economy as well as power. The two intakes looked to be quite easy to match together too.

Karl"

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Another Alternative

By Alan Martin

I was having a look at the above 2 barrel manifold and thought I would add this little tip. When I did mine recently I happened to have an inlet manifold from an EA Falcon (single point fuel injection type) laying around and found that the mounting plate is perfect for adapting to the 2 barrel as it is made to suit the weber carby. All I had to do was reposition the holes for bolting the Holley on although in hindsight I probably would use the weber from the XF next time. I am sure that these manifolds would be quite cheap from the wreckers and you would probably recoup the cost by sending the left over manifold to scrap.

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