the e&s i had was a 2 piece manifold, i had the flat top, looked like a pancake, a friend had a finned 2 carb hi rise top for one, don't kno what other bolt on's they made. was NOT a pretty manifold, I paid $20 for it '' just the other day''.
Only thing I know is the name and its rare. I seek information on Ed Schenks shop. Some might has a idea. Or is all this forgotten.
Rare can very often mean something was low production because it was not very good and no one bothered to keep them as a result. Chasing rare for rare's sake can be a fool's errand.
A friend of mine,''Dick Green'', told me that he had had the patterns for E&S and they were made in Atlanta Ga., or area. Floyd Huligard in Origan wanted to buy or trade for mine for YEARS, he finaly found one in Montana, this was 20+ years ago. sold mine on e-bay for a crasy amount. sold 65 different manifolds, and 30 sets of heads, have 3 flt head cars and enough to build another, if time, the mango's are falling faster now...
The intake Boo is describing is the "blast box". It's a dual purpose intake with either a single plane flat intake or with the add-on dual carb tunnel ram style. Here's the only picture I know of one: In my opinion, it's a poor design from a performance standpoint, and also doesn't look as good as Edelbrock Slingshots or similar high rise dual carb manifolds.
Yes rare today can be it was crap before ! Just did like see one on picture ( as I has the L&S heads ) ( the picture shows several intakes ) Plus I'm intrested in the history ( rare or not ) On 'rare'. I bought the L&S heads as they was told be rare and 'high comp' racing heads. Seller had not much info and the only thing I read was it was made in LA and had records on late 40's and they moved to Georgia and chanched name to E&S, but my intake has the E&S logo but also 'Burnank',and its a direct port x4. Worthless for streets. But I did like the 'look'. It's a 'marine' intake (?) and that also got my attention on 'why' that name ( boat racing ) I'm not after HP or best flow, so if they are street able its Ok. But why did I get them, well not cheap but I has never seen them before so in that point its rare atleast to me ( but maybe crap ) Yes, I could bought new Edelbrock ( make sense ) and a Edelbrock intake that has 2 carbs good for streets and alternator could be in stock position. Let's say I wanted something more odd. Ok I could get numerious of otherolder heads or intake, ex Sharp etc etc all nice and not 'that' common. But now I got them and I like em but would love has the history. But the people that was there in the late 40's is all gone but someone must has some more information. I'm very intrested how they set-up the engine at the 'speed record' in the late 40's. But I has another issue with this intake its my water tubes is not working with the 81 Strombergs. I might can rise carbs upp 2", thats also why I ask on the the blast box intake.
If I read the few lines I wonder was it first E&S and then L&S, if so my heads is later and intake is earlyer as inta has E&S ( heads are L&S ) ------------------------------ The E&S heads were made by E&S Manufacturing Co. 1828 Keystone St. Burbank CA phone CHase 7-7447, Ed Schneck owner, Kong Jackson was involved in the design. They also made several styles of multiple carburetor intake manifolds. The "Super Marine Special" was a staggered 4 carb beauty with fins. They also made a cool 2 carb manifold featuring a "Blast Box" for street use which could be replaced with a low carburetor mounting plate for racing applications. Other products included scoops and an offset generator mounting bracket. The company moved to Georgia at some point and changed the name to L&S. The E&S Custom, Super Race, and Supermarine heads feature a revolutionary design of combustion chambers, valve and dome areas, which results in absolute maximum turbulance and enables the use of ten to one and higher compression ratioswith maximum volumetric efficiency and excellent fuel flame propagation. "Chioking off and "peaking"
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I think I has found a picture on the ’Blast Box’ intake. I also got some good information on the Schneck brothers heads ( see threads on the L&S heads ) I will start a new thread on the direct port 4 x 2 intake.
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