Hot Rods What is the lowest profile sbc intake

I am in need of the lowest profile intake for a sbc that I can get. I would Like a dual carb setup, but I am willing to use a single carb if it will clear the hood. Any sbc gurus out there?

 

How low can you go

 

WTF IZAT!

 

@Moriarity should have some (Corvette) related thoughts on this, Corvettes are notorious for air cleaner top to hood clearance issues when going aftermarket.
I see a 1960 casting date on the bottom side, has Winters(GM) casting number on top, listing says it's a marine app.

 

An Edelbrock C-26 is about the lowest profile dual quad manifold around these days. Offenhauser might have one also, not sure about that one though.

 

https://www.speedyauto.cc/howto/racingcar/engine/201603/233703.html

 

Its a custom bodied car that I am building. Loosely based on a cobra daytona. I am trying to keep the hood line extremely low.
It will be built around the engine, so as low as I can go is low enough.

 

If a 4bbl, use a dropped base air cleaner. I’d guess the one off my LS5 drops an inch. I think it was HRM in the 70’s, did some testing. The dropped based did as well as any other.

 

https://store.tracyvette.com/item/1770/ one on Ebay now for $64 but has some welding
https://www.ebay.com/itm/3888942681...XVQQZG&hash=item5a8be79b11:g:k20AAeSwxKhosGKr

 

The smog years had some drop down center intakes for both small and big blocks. If this is just about clearance, maybe that might provide an answer.

 

Crietz made a dual 4 that is pretty low, they pop up on ebay every once in a while, one sold in February and one sold in March.

 

This manifold is dry, there is no coolant p***ing through it. It would work, but does require drilling and tapping the front of the heads and using a separate thermostat housing.

I would wonder about the driveability, it’s pretty poorly designed with the rearward tilt and simple ports. I’d be concerned about the fuel mixture being even to all the cylinders.

 

Maybe it's just me.......
But I've always wanted a car with a power bulge on the hood.

 

Oh, it will have a power bulge, but even with that I am tight for space.

 

Getting the engine as low as possible from the start will be key, may need to include a "kickout" style oil pan into the plan, it can also help gain some extra ground clearance.
Good ones aren't especially cheap but there are some entry level versions that should be affordable, PORTLAND SWAP MEET is this weekend, only a five hour drive I'm guessing.

 

Is this a low to mid low cost build .
Is car going to be in sports car Front & rear light weight parts .
If yr wanting engine lowest ,a option
To dry sump .
A Trick & compact pan & pump integrated together is
Dailey Engineering

 

Moriarty, thanks! Thats a helpful couple of pics. I found an edelbrock c26. I will set some carbs on it and do some measuring like you did. I dodnt want to go with a drysump, but I will if I have to.

 

The car Im building will be an illegitimate love child of the 1964 ferrari 250gto, and a1964 cobra daytona. I am starting with a tube ch***is, which will house corvette suspension, a 327 and a muncie 4 speed. I am attempting to dream up a chevrolet version of this style of mid 60s lemans race car. It is a border line off topic build soI will post pics in the off topic section of the hamb. Thanks for all of the input and I will post pics when I break ground on this endevour.

 

One of these would be both way cool, and close to period perfect.

 

That would be perfect. What is it?

 

Expensive!!!

 

https://www.piercemanifolds.com/Weber_Carb_conversion_kit_p/k352-48.htm 36 mm
https://www.piercemanifolds.com/Weber_Carb_conversion_kit_p/k352-48.htm 40 mm
Jim Inglese does one also

 

I do believe MOON made a decent version of those manifolds in the 60s, maybe later, thru 80s or longer? Maybe still avail, idk? They may still have access to the patterns, otherwise "parts is where ya find 'em". ;( .

You had me at:
"The car Im building will be an illegitimate love child of the 1964 ferrari 250gto, and a1964 cobra daytona. I am starting with a tube ch***is, ".
You might have to drysump it, w/a flat pan, to drop the mill down 5-6"+, but then heads/et-al start getting in the way, complicating things. Oops, I mean, allowing ingenuity & imagineering to surface & be featured prominently. .

& if you go w/the Webers, there are the Italian(stupid $$$), Spanish(almost stupid$$), & the genuine chineseium (clone) versions, in really ****py to almost-not-horrible condition. Read: don't buy the $100USD ones, get at least the GenIII. EMPI sidedrafts are supposed to be pretty good. IIIRC, The biggest issue is the drilled transition ports by the ****erflies, as in not correct, difficult to modify correctly. Also the jets & air corrector aren't marked, or made, correctly, but the Genuine Weber stuff interchanges. There are a few really good write-up/dissertations(by Mike aka mcdragracer) on theSamba about these, & also how to tune Webers/Dellortos/etc correctly(esp by John Connelly aka John @Aircooled). Our own Mike Lawless might have some good input.

Marcus...

 

Offenhauser 5253 is a pretty short dual 4 manifold. From the base of the valley (bottom surface of the manifold) to the air cleaner surface of AFB style carbs is almost exactly 6". I've have 2" spacers under the carbs in the attached picture. These manifolds can be found pretty reasonably priced with a little searching.

 

It already exists....it's called a Cheetah.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?...7C937659FBB46B5B19AA351&selectedIndex=2&itb=0

 

If your stepping outside the HAMB guidelines and thinking a side draft type intake then fuel injection is avaliable in a similar layout .
EFI and also mechanical.

I toy with the idea of a BBC back in my 57 Vette but under the stock hood .

 

Its a Moon manifold from memory. I say from memory, as I saw it for sale and because they are very rare down here, I bought it sight unseen and had a mate up in Auckland (about 700 miles away) collect it for me. Its still stored at his place 2 years later.

I bought it and paid an extra US$500 for the alloy heads and the ugly rocker covers, just because I figure they would all work together in the future, as they had worked in the past.

Intake and Webers were about US$1500 which sounds a bit brutal, but the guy has spent that much sorting the carbs. So I figured it would save me spending that much on getting the carbs sorted.

And the main reason I bought them is because they are just so cool. I dont actually have a project for them yet, but I figure if I have some spare hot rod DNA sitting around, its a valid reason to start another project.

I reckon they would look great in a Dan Woods style C Cab........