I know lots of European market Pantera were fitted with Holley 650 carbs by De Tomaso.
What model Holley did they use?
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quote:Originally posted by Charlie McCall:
My GT5-S came with a factory Holley 600, vacuum secondaries.
I have it sitting on a shelf along with the factory intake and heads and stuff... It's right next to my bent pushrod collection.... (no relation between the two!)
quote:Originally posted by Charlie McCall:
Doug -
It's a REALLY long story, but the bent pushrods didn't come from a factory problem. I had the engine rebuilt and installed a solid lifter cam... the problem didn't come from improper valve lash, but from poor preparation of the Aussie quench heads I bought from California.
BUT, that being said, while I was still suffering from bending pushrods every 500 miles, the DeTomaso mechanics diagnosed the problem and fixed it by changing my headers. For $1800.
quote:Originally posted by george pence:
I'm still interested in the answer to the original question posed by Derek, "...European market Pantera were fitted with Holley 650 carbs by De Tomaso.What model Holley did they use?"
thanks, George
quote:Originally posted by DeTom:
...SO my euro-GTS says it is a Holley 4777-4, ...
quote:Originally posted by Charlie McCall:
...Here ya go George, Took me a little while to find where I had it stashed, but this was the stock carb on my '85 5-S. You wanna know about the intake?? ;-)
quote:Originally posted by george pence:
Charlie yours lists as a 600 cfm model 4160 (single accelerator pump, vacuum secondaries, secondary metering plate).
Charlie, I can tell you that your Australian sourced motor has heads with 2V sized ports and open combustion chambers. I am assuming it is a late model motor, therefore the oem ignition was a Bosch breakerless system and the original carb on that motor was a spread bore Carter Thermoquad mated to a cast iron spread bore intake manifold with small 2V size runners and exhaust gas recirc. That intake was probably removed by DeTomaso and replaced with the Holley street dominator.
How did I do?
your friend on the DTBB
quote:DeTom yours is a 650 cfm model 4150 (double pump, mechaical linkage, dual metering blocks).
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quote:Originally posted by accobra:
.. the heads have the little 4 up in the corner near the valve cover ...
quote:Originally posted by accobra:
....So whats our best guess and cast # on block ?...
quote:Originally posted by accobra:
...Would the records be on file at the Plant in Modena...
quote:Originally posted by accobra:
Ok I'm totaly confused now.
Here is what we got so far an intake d3ze-9425-aa a simple CI intake.. but some thing unusual its bored elongated for both carbs.
The block is stamped as 351/07175 and so is the VIN plate on the car. So I'm 100% sure that the block matches the car ... 99% sure that the intake and 4V heads are original from what I see on the car. It appears not to have been taken apart. If they did a head swap I'm sure the 50lb intake would have been tosted. It has only 42 KM on the OD which is what 25k miles ?
Ok next I'll try to see what the casting is on the block. I would like to see those records at the factory to see what was original on the car.
Ron
quote:Originally posted by DUTCHIE:
Can you tell by this pic what type of Holley i'm running ?
quote:Originally posted by DUTCHIE:
...Can you tell by this pic what type of Holley i'm running ? ...