Got this tri-power set up yesterday to replace the crappy set I got of the other site and it came with these cool OFFY carburetor risers. Mocked it up to see how it looked and just aint sure of it. What do you think?? another side Heres the other carbs before
I like anything that makes your car/engine different from the others in the lot. Some may argue any miniscule performance advantages or disadvantages but for me I think they look cool because you don't see 'em everyday.
can you get a shot standing a little further away to get the whole stance???? I think it looks sort a goofy right off. I have some of those too and I ain't sure about them either.
you may loose a little bottom end torque oh wait its a nailhead.... you have torque to spare NICE tom
I don't think it needs 'em, but they would be a cool conversation piece. As easy as those would be to swap, I'd just add/delete/add 'em just for fun, whenever the mood hits ya.
Have you driven with the spacer on it yet? Looks OK - how they perform is what I would base wether I kept them on or not.
Exactly! Its nothing to swap them out! Drive it and let the seat of your pants be the judge! From a visual POV... I agree that we need a shot from further away.
On a HOT ROD, there's gotta be a performance reason to use them, not just "they look cool". The air velocity change they would make will either enhance or degrade power at different RPMs. If the increase power at higher RPM then they might drop it at low RPM, or maybe the other way around, that all depends on the rest of the engine. Since it's progressive linkage, it might get best bottom end with no riser in the middle carb but gain power from having them under the end carbs, or the other way around. Only testing would tell you the answers to that. Running either one in the middle and none on the ends, or one on each end and none in the middle will probably give you the best power setup, regardless of looking gooky or making linkage a nightmare. What I'm thinking and comparing it to is those 4 carb manifolds that ran one larger bore carb than the other three because it supposedly balanced the uneven firing order demands.
The Burns dual manifold for the flathead came with or without the unboltable risers. Their literature said the risers can be removed to change it from a "high commercial model" to the low racing type manifold.
The most important thing here is: Do you like them? I personally think that is already a killer looking intake and carbs w/o the spacers. If the spacers dont make you like to look of it better, help it run better, or make it easier to run fuel line, or clear a distributor, or set up a throtle cable easier, or give better MPG, Id say why bother?
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