I will most likely use 2 glass bowl holley carbs on my willys Darland intake. The problem is that the bolt flange is 180 in the wrong direction, does anyone make an adapter? Or can anyone recommend good horsepower carbs?
Bear in mind that, with the bowl mounted forward, the Holley 1904 is a side-pull linkage carb. It might be best for you to look at the overall situation in your car. Linkage or cable coming out of the firewall? In any case, I don't think there is a store-bought adapter available. It should be an easy task to whip one up out of 1/2" aluminum plate, with the bolt pattern(s) spun 90*. Roger
I have seen adapters for this but don't know where you could get some. Muffler shops have 2 bolt exhaust flanges. You could put 2 of them together and make your own adapter. They have the same shape as your carburetor base.
************************************************************************************* You're quite welcome. I have a problem similar to yours. I want to use the vis-a-bowl 1904's on my T, but the Offy manifold has it's (different) bolt pattern arranged such that I have to build a flanged riser in order to fasten the carbs to the intake. I figure on using bellcranks and short links to turn the accelerator pull cable into side-pull action. Roger
Making a pair of spacer/adapters will probably be the easy part compared with figuring out the linkage. I wonder how close the bores on one of those old 4 bbl carb spacer/adapters comes to the 1 bbl bores. a little bandsaw or hacksaw work and a few minutes of drilling and you have a pair of swith machined surfaces.
This kind of stuff is why i bought a mill. But before I had a mill, I used a drill press with an XY table. And before that I used a drill motor, hacksaw, and file.
How much are you wiling to pay me to make you two adapters to turn your carbs 90 degrees? Plus shipping.
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