I was looking through some parts left over from a Friends collection and came across this old 2 bbl carb mounted on a SBC manifold. it is obviously not an original fit and Gary had adapted the carb to the manifold. Gary p***ed away so we cant ask him what it is or what it came on but it looks to me like an early blow through carb for a Paxton/mcCullough/Judson/Kiaser or maybe earlier. Way before my time. He used to on his sprint car, probably to keep dirt our of the carb and route the breather to another location. Had to be for a large old straight 6-8 supercharged something I would think given the size and 2 bbl configuration. Anyone recognize it? I will bring it home this weekend and try to get some #s off of it but I was on my bike and in a hurry so I just snapped a picture to get started from. Makes that chevy manifold look small...
I'm going to take a wild guess and say it is some kind of aircraft carb. I had a friend who dealt in military surplus, he had some old DC3 carbs, they were 2 barrels even bigger than that one.
I would agree with the aircraft application probably used it on a roundy round car because of its resistance to g-force
That is possible, he was into aviation and it might be something like that, they certainly used superchargers on airplanes in that era as well.
Not positive from the picture, but it appears to be a Stromberg NA series carb. The NA series came in several different sizes, and was sold to the military for use on both ground and air engines. Several tanks used the NA series. Jon.
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