quote:Originally posted by George P:
Did you hear the sound of all those toes cracking when I just stepped on them?
You are not incorrect 'big guy'. Not at all, but you miss the obvious.
The IDA's are what was run in the day, and just like having a real Pantera Gp4 car or maybe a Cobra FIA, or Daytonna Coupe, people want to step into a time machine and "return with us now to the time of yesteryear"- Lone Ranger.
The FACT of the matter is absolutely 99.99% of the population should stay away from them. Even in the catagory of "car enthusiast" another 95% should stay away entirely and forget they ever heard about them.
They just are not what people expect them to be. They were only intended to be race induction and never promised anything but that.
There are lots of "better ways" to go but it is undeniable that once you are exposed to them, you are infected. Infected to a point of no hope of EVER returning to "normality" whatever that is.
MAYBE with a complete brain transplant a person could forget about them, but then would you do a complete heart transplant also to "help me Rhonda, help me get her outta' my heart"? (note to Rocky here: no Cowbell in 'Beach Boys stuff!
)Ernest Hemingway once said after finally breaking up with his significant other, "there is only way to get over a woman (a drunken' slut)...go out a find another (drunken slut)". Then he took a shotgun and blew his own head off. Even he knew that that it was impossible to give it up. Webers are kinda' like that. You are constantly in denial with them and there is no 'reasoning' that will set you free (while you are alive)? It's not logical I know...it's just the way it is.
Look at it this way, they are one of those things that just add color to your character, like in 'Jaws' where 'the Chief, aka as Chiefie' by 'Quint, describes 'Quint' to his wife as "yes...colorful (for lack of a better term) isn't he?" after she remarks "he scares me!".
Here's the Detomaso Weber manifold. Notice how thin the carb mounting flanges are? Look at them on Hall's manifold. This is one of the 'improvements' he made to the design.
