Not sure but it could be off a Ford Taunus V-4, they were also used in Saabs and in Transit vans. (can't find an engine pic showing the intake clearly, but it looks about right and that would explain it being in Sweden!) Or I could be wrong and it's off a flathead v8, single barrel carb could be truck? or marine?
might be military. we have a bunch of 4 bolt single carb intakes off the french simca flatheads that used a weber carb. the bolt pattern on ours is not angled like that one. i don't know what carb that would use, but since it's cast iron i would say it is 1937 or later.
No oifiller or vent so it is pre-39 that had the vent in the pan. '32 used a chandler groves 1 bbl, it wouldn't bolt up there. It isn't ford numbers on the casting so it's some kind of aftermarket. I never saw a factory intake with webs like that, & vacum is bigger & closer to the gen mount and not the fuel pump end. What kind or bolt pattern do superchargers have? Mculloch? Show it on fordbarn, someone will know it, and may want it.
I'm going to bet wood burning. Pretty cool to find something that has been tucked away since '45-'46? Musta been hell living in Europe during the war years and even after, seeing as your neighbors were under soviet rule.
Its from a score i did from a old mans collction, he had 80 rare motorcycels, indien and HD, V-twin Husqvarna and alot of old race snowmobiles. I scored a -28 model a sport coupe and a -28 roadster. The stuff have been stufft away in the barn sins the lat 70is. A rare Ford -36 delivery, som roadsters and roadsters parts.
According the green bible yhere is a Cover (valve chamber) 81C 6520 Cover (valve chamber)-cast iron replaced by 59T 6520. Pass,Trucks 90&100hp (8 cyl) 38-40 I dont think they made special intake's för the woodgas, i think they modified the normal carburator intakes. Maybe the C stand for Canada? Any Canadioan guys out there?
I'm not a flathead expert but Canadian stuff starts with C, IIRC not ending with one. I know Ford used X for experimental parts but that may be later in the 50's or 60's
Not sure how it's called in proper English, but "Holzgas" (producer gas or Gen Gas) was quite popular in Germany and Scandinavia during and after WW II when petrol was limited in supply. The attached Danish advert picture shows a Cologne built "Ruhr" truck with the BB engine and an Imbert generator, but identical looking V8s were also converted and often used special intakes. Sweden mainly used charcoal gas generators, wheras in Germany wood was preferred.
NIKLAS...It's an anti matter proton collector, but if i told you what it was made for. i would have to kill you! HA!...POP.
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