By - August 3, 2004 By Thomas Teixeira. His web site can be found at Pretty much all the books on flatheads don’t recommend more than dual carburetors for street use, and many of the newer books recommend putting on a four barrel carburetor instead of two carburetors. At the same time, two, three or more carburetors were the only choices back in the 40’s and early 50’s.

Plus the decorative possibilities for multiple carburetor setups are almost endless: air scoops, velocity stacks, various types of chromed and polished air cleaners This is the intake manifold we installed with the carburetors and air cleaners set up inside before installation. Barcode Font Code 128 there. I’ll explain more about how we chose each of the major pieces and then what we did to install them. Choosing the manifold Some of the other trade-offs involve how and where to mount a generator or alternator. If the carburetors are put in the ‘ideal’ position (one centered over the front four cylinders and one over the back cylinders), the generator will not fit in the stock location.

Boris Bezier Software Testing Techniques Adobe. Instead, the generator is mounted on a bracket attached to one of the cylinder heads. But some of the older intake manifolds (including the ones still manufactured by Offenhauser) also have an option where the carburetors are closer together, both towards the rear of the engine to leave room for a generator. We were already using an alternator instead of a generator and have quite a bit more room at the front of the engine, and had seen pictures in one flathead book of an engine with three carburetors and an alternator so we thought that we might be able to install a ‘super dual’ intake manifold and completely satisfy my fetish for symmetry: alternator in the center of the engine instead of two one side, and carburetors centered over the appropriate cylinders. Install Ralus Agent Backup Exec 12.5 here. So, we ordered an Offenhauser ‘super dual’ manifold (supposedly good for about 10% more peak horsepower than their regular dual), but the manifold we received did not have any mounting bracket at the front for a generator or alternator.