One word for what I did this weekend - Man-A-Fre!!!

The guy with the Pontiac intake also had a small block set-up with the injector nozzle's, the extra fuel lines, and all the hardware,...$1500 and it was REAL CRUSTY! That was the first one I had actually seen with all that stuff on it outside of a couple of '60's hot rod magazine's.

 

this was lifted from FUEL SYSTEMS by HOT ROD magazine;

 

Where were you in '62 ?
This article was written by Martyn L. Schorr in a
Little Page book. Speed and Custom Jan.1962 Vol.8 Number 7.
You guys lucky enough to own 'em may enjoy this.......

The new Man-A-Fre (manifold free) fuel induction system
for Chevies and Corvettes is quite different from all other
muliple carburetor manifolds and logs.
This system features direct port induction of four two-
barrel carburetors, thus no manifolding and no dead air space. All four carbs work together all the time. The
Man-A-Fre set-up is a fuel injection plate with integral
balance tubes added, and the use of carbs instead of injector nozzles does not make the plate a manifold.
Developed by Robert E. Patrick and first used on the
Chevy 265 V-8.
The set-up works on the theory of breaking down the V-8
engine into four seperate two-cylinder engines.

The cost in 1962?..........$125.00 with carbs.
The carb choice then were 58 chevy truck carbs for a
total venturi area of 7.5 sq. in. for the 283.

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"OPOSSUM BENDERS"
Central Missouri Chapter

 

Yes, I wish they were still $125 with carbs, I'd buy them all!

 

Mine had the direct port injection. 2 chromed 4 port fuel blocks connected together. The first fuel block fed the carbs. An electric solenoid connected the second fuel block. each port used a t fitting to pipe 1/16th in. tubing to the dimples in the intake below the carb base on each side of the carbs.

The guy I bought mine from reved the motor up on the starting line. When the light turned green he dumped the clutch hit the switch and flooded the engine. It died right there on the starting line.

I've only seen a couple with the "injection" system over the years. Most are undrilled like the ones above. I plugged the holes and shit canned the extra plumbing. Probably worth a bunch today to a collector wanting the correct set up.
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An undrilled set at York a few years ago.

 

The tubes look absolutely EVIL. I think those are better looking and more interesting than 3x2's, even if they are harder to deal with. I can't help but wonder how one would look with side draft Merc carbs facing out to the sides...

 

Before I put my man-a-fre on, an old guy told me to watch the carb feeding cylinders #5 and #7 because they are next to each other in the firing order. He said there was a trick to setting them up, but he didn't know it. My set-up always seemed to run rich even with the small jets. The man-a-fre manifold is now very happy being fuel injected.