Reply to "Torker Intake"

Dennis,

no problemo brother. Let's reason this thing through so you won't worry about it.

The only manifolds that mount the carby flat are the special Blue Thunder and the various SVO & Yates manifolds. Everything else has the ~10 degree angle machined into it. The most popular manifolds for the Cleveland motor, the Edelbrock Performer, the Edelbrock Torker and the Holley Strip Dominator all have the angled carb pad. There are more Pantera guys, Cobra guys, etc running their carburetors at angles, than their are those that have flat manifolds.

How many complaints of fuel starvation have you read about here, on the mail list, etc?

Since a car doesn't travel only on flat ground, the ability to feed fuel to the jets a various angles is designed into the fuel bowls, make sense?

The fuel will slosh forward under hard braking, backwards under acceleration, even if the manifold mounted the carb flat, the issue Julian refers to will not go away if the carb were mounted flat.

aloha, cowboy from hell