Reply to "Progress pics of my Mangusta"

...who understands me? Are they looking now??? WHere?

The other thing to consider, is that we're talking a 302 here, not a 351. SO, a 2x4 would require baby 450ish carbs if not even a tad smaller! (But I like the idea of a 2x4 on a sequential linkage setup! 2...4...EIGHT!!!)

I think at that point, I'd consider a SEFI setup, either conventional MAF, or an IR setup ala Weber look alike!

See my post on "Oops I'm doing it again..." for pic's on my clearance issues.... I set a GT40 SEFI intake on my old motor...and it fit with no clearance issues at all!!!! Hmmmm.....

What I am seeing from pic's that guys are sending me, is that the rear ZF mount location may have changed by as much as an inch or more, perhaps to allow for more ground clearance of the bellhousing! (Very early 289 HiPo cars had a smaller bellhousing (and flywheel), something I only realized recently. After that they got the same large diameter as the Pantera, and perhaps then they raised it a bit....but the locations still appear to be all over the map!)

I had the added enjoyment of figuring out that my front mounts had been raised 1.5" or so in order that the headers on the Boss 302 would clear the frame....which put any air cleaner I tried to fit, into the shields.... PO had actually butchered the shields and removed one of the stanchions on my car....ugh!

Thankfully, thru others that are doing various things to reconstruct their cars, and by searching the world over (literally!) I have some stanchions to weld back on, and some unmessed with shields to install, hopefully soon! At least in this decade....

I do have a factory C7ZX Shelby intake at home with matching carbs and air cleaner....just that the FE motor would last FAR longer than the chassis.....!!!! I want to find a good home for it...but haven't come up with it yet......like a 64 Fairlane.....!!!!

Steve
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