Reply to "Autolite Inline Carbs"

I can help a little here. Before I had my Pantera I autocrossed a Boss 302 for about 15 years. My memory might be a little fuzzy here but I thing I'll remember most of the facts. The inline carbs came in 2 sizes. I think one was an 850 or so and a larger one was 1400 or so. The would only fit in a specific 2 piece manifold. I think it was called a Cross Boss. The top piece could be changed and you could run 2 carbs if you wanted to. There were supposedly some made of magnesium also. I owned one and we had it on the car for a weekend or so but as I remember the car ran better with a Holley. I think all of the parts to rebuild the carb were regular autocraft 2 barrel parts. It was a simple piece. I think there were 3 circuits designed into it. A WOT it screamed but at part throttle it was awful. It ran way fat. Keep in mind we really didn't know what we were doing either. I remember some guys fabricating a new simple top to their manifolds on other engines to try to make the thing run because it looked so cool. I saw a guy with a Mopar 426 that had one working. I don't know how it ran. It won't fit on a Weber intake. Barry Grant was advertising an inline carb recently that resembled the Inline. If you're going to try to make one work, some where I probably have all the info on set up. The idea of the carb was to get around the SCCA rule book on carb limitations back in the Tran Am series back in 69" or 70". I think the rule book said you could only run 1 four barrel. The carb and intake was something that had to be available over the counter and have so many made. Most of the guys who had one also seemed to have to box that it came in too. That was before people cared about that kind of thing. I always thought that was because we all wanted to make the thing work because it looked so cool but no one I ever knew could get it to run anywhere but a race track. If any one has a picture they should mount it here. It looks cool in 1 and 2 carb configurations. I'd forgotten all about it.