I have a chance to buy a y block aluminum intake with two side draft carbs that are on it I know you have to make a slight coolant mod to run these on a pickup but think it would look awesome what is a fair offer to give the guy on it he wont give me a price
I hate people who have something they might sell but they expect you to come up with a price. What he is hoping you will do is overbid what he actually wants. Offer him $ 50 and I bet you will find out he actually does have a price in mind. If he keeps expecting you to do the selling for him walk away..........clowns like this irk me. Don
I've sold a couple of those set ups with manifold, linkage and carbs that needed rebuild for $250 and $300. I don't think you should pay much more than that. Although they do look kinda cool there are a lot better running intakes out there.
Get a aluminum 4 barrel for about what you will have in the marine intake. You will need a marine valley cover or fab your own. The marine unit had special air cleaners if you want or can get with the intake. Carb kits are $45 each. I have had 3 or 4 of these and have a DVD with rebuild instructions if you need and several pictures of setups A repro aluminum 4 barrel is/was around $450 or there are several 3x2 intakes out there not as cool but.....
Check the cl***ifieds here. I bet there is one with all the water pipes and valley pan and everything... Oh, and a price.
"Well, the last one I bought like that, I paid ten bucks, but it had a little crack I had to have welded by the aircraft place and they charged me quite a bit." Sonme counter******** like that gets the smoke out of the air pretty quick.
I paid $250 for a complete one minus the coolant pipes. I can't find them anywhere so the intakes pointless. Make sure all the parts are there before you buy because its hard as hell to find seprate parts.
Can they be made to accelerate in a road vehicle? They are made to run a steady speed, and actually, not all that fast. Maybe OK for cruise RPM with an overdrive, but I would think the cool factor would be overcome by poor overall performance.
The carbs would be the limiting factor. They are the same ones that Chevy used on 53-55 Vettes. They used 3 of them on a pretty wimpy 235 CID engine, so I'd guess 2 on a 292/312 Y block might not be enough fuel for a V-8. So if you're looking for max speed, and best drivability, look at a single 4 BBL. Looking for "cool factor" run it! If anything, the carbs are worth 50-100$ for cores. I'd buy them for that!
Other then the look,there not good for street,like running a two bbl. and a lot of fab needs doing 4 them to work. In a boat were rpm is only 3000 max they bearly keep up.
Whenever I get the "what will you give me for it", my response is "you want me to be the buyer and seller?"..... they usually shoot me a price after that, because if Im the seller, Im selling it to myself for a buck.
I finally got a price from him 600 Im not gona even make a counter offer cause I am not even close I was thinkin 250 but by the looks of things there more trouble than there worth probably just go with a four barrel set up
Excellent advice and my sentiments exactly. I always ask if this is for sale or up for auction when someone wants me to come up with a price for them.
I found the whole works in a junkyard a while back and haven't been up to see what it will cost me to buy the whole motor.
MOST of the time the water manifolds are missing from these intakes. They are REQUIRED as the water manifold splits a bolt boss with the intake. You can't bolt the intake down unless the water manifold is there too. Unless a guy wants to make his own. I bought a whole marine conversion from a Y-block a decade ago for a couple hundred dollars. I got everything, including intake, bellhousing, exhaust, water pumps, oil pan etc. Then sold a couple small parts to a boater, and he GAVE me his marine intake. Said it didn't work well for him and he was going 4-barrel. But these sure do look neat.
I picked up a cast iron 4 bbl manifold and a '55 Buick carb to run on my Y block. Have not started on the motor yet but I have less than $100 in it all including a kit for the carb.
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