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Those are the A3 ports. Good eyes. Hall only offers 2 variations of IDA Weber manifolds as far as I know. A3 or 4v iron.

The bolt hole locations on this manifold are the same as my A3 manifold.

This particular manifold, the Hall A3 port, is a variation of the original 4v casting. As such it will fit on the 4v iron heads since the casting fills the bottom of the original 4v ports.

Probably would have the effect of using port suffers on the iron heads which would likely be a good thing.

All you would need to do on this particular manifold, is cut the thermostat and Windsor block filler housing off. You do need the tower in a Pantera for the linkage if you don't want to redesign the entire car to do without it.

You could replace it with a plate strung between the front two carbs.

If you can weld 'luminum, you could make a Weber manifold out of a Weiand tunnel ram for sake of discussion.

The first three inches of runner are very similar between the two manifolds.

Incidentally, has anyone here or anyone you know of tried the EMPI EPC 51 carbs on the Cleveland or any other American V8? Theoretically they are better suited for a 351 C then the 48 idas are, but I am pretty sure from playing around with various chokes on the 48's that they are going to give a lot of bottom end away in favor of top end.

I can't find any dyno testing on them anywhere.