quote:Originally posted by Kid:
I did invest in an Innovate LM2 air/fuel ratio meter, which at the same time is a datalogger too, to get my initial set-up going.
As for the linkage, the connection in between the carbs is one thing, the throttle linkage is an other, as I found out, many people have the latter completely wrong. I brought this to JI's attention, and he changed his linkage design as per my recommandations. It is not only JI who had it wrong, I found similar mistakes at other vendors too.
The tower in the center is actually correct for the Pantera, since the pedal pulls the carbs.
Many Clevelands are in other cars such as Mustangs and for them the Pantera linkage is wrong.
The tower actually helps since there is nothing to bend in it.
This actually makes the Pantera simpler since you can hook the left side to the right from the rear of the manifold, left to right directly.
I find this helps a lot. I had this setup in my Shelby and the Mustangs need to be controlled from the drivers side of the carbs.
On that setup it is better to have the four carbs all in parallel rather then opposed. I had Inglese's reversing plates on that set up. One side is just a spacer, the other side reverses the carbs so that all four have the fuel inlets on the same side. This simplifies the linkage. For me on that car it was the only way to correct a geometry issue with the linkage. The Pantera with the pull on the bell on the tower doesn't have that problem. There the tower actually can get in the way.
The throttle body peopl use the Hall manifold but mill the tower out and put a vacuum box there with tower on top. Personally I think that is needless, but hey, what do I know about anything? Seems like not much?