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You need to remember that you need space over the top of these carbs to make them work. I have run shortened IDA's and they ran fine that way. They were shortened to get space above them. Just like on the Cobra Daytonna Coupes. I don't know if you actually can fit an IDF under the rear deck without shortening it. I thought about that with the IDA's but I didn't think that there would be enough room under the deck on the last two stacks.
That short Australian manifold might make that possible on the Pantera. If you find one, don't think it'll be cheap. The Falconer-Dunn manifold is pretty low. It's the one they said they never made. I never seen one of those for sale.
The 427 Fords have an IDA intake which has the carb bases angle milled 10 degrees so that the two banks tilt towards the center. You can conceivably do that on a C. That could give you just enough room on the back two stacks, maybe. You might have more room on a W. Even though they are 9.5 blocks, the carb pads are lower then Halls, a lot lower.
You do realize the one of the benefits to the IDA's is that they are ram tubes as well?
The runners on the Hall manifold I have flow 380 cfm each.
Are you saying that you can't get a Hall manifold any more?
DeTom, do you think you guys could actually piss me off? Who's playing with who? Grasshopper!
Redline is listing the same part number for the 302-351 there George. I don't beleive anyones going to tool up to sell 100 manifolds but lets not be logical about this. All of these head companies tooled up Cleveland heads to sell what, 50 sets? Nobody plays with Clevelands anymore and if they do, they won't pay. They are too cheap. Who's going to pay $2500 for a set of Brodix bare heads? That's aftermarket. Aftermarket is crap. You have to give away factory performance parts and then the guy bitches about IT'S DIRTY. The last set of A3 heads went for $1500 WITH A MANIFOLD on ebay. Common, who's going to race a Pantera? It only gets 10mpg on the street, and you gotta use hightest!