[DeTomaso] Weber IDA48 or injection?

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

Hi guys,

Mike Gilmore meant to send this to everyone, I think, but it only went to 
me:

In a message dated 11/25/12 18 09 37, mgilmore11 at mchsi.com writes:


> Hi Mike! The 351 Cleveland tri-power intkaes indeed have  XE part numbers 
> on
> them, and if memory serves me right, they were made by Buddy Bar, which 
> made
> lots of different aluminum intakes. I owned 2 of them back in the mid 
> 70's,
> both were bare intakes. Weird thing the carb pads were too close together 
> to
> run the Ford tri-power carbs, when I bought the first one, I had sitting 
> on
> the shelf a complete 390 FE tripower, thought I would just put them on the
> 351 intake, WRONG! Wound up using a set of Mopar 3x2 carbs, and of course
> the Vette 3-2 carbs will fit also. Another bit of Ford trivia, in the 
> early
> 80's when we had our 289 Cobra, CSX 2050, we drove it to Des Moines Ia, 
> for
> the Shelby Owner's Assocition National meet, there was a white Boss 429
> there with a Tri-power intake on it, with XE numbers on it, and a few 
> years
> later at the Mid America Ford meet in Tulsa OK, a fellow showed up with a
> Ranchero, with a 429 SCJ motor in it, and you guessed it, a XE numbered
> tri-power on it,and ANOTHER complete setup, sitting on the ground beside 
> the
> car! I've seen 4 or 5 other 351C tri-power intakes over the years, for the
> 351C. Best guess from other parts hounds and Ford people I have spoken 
> with
> over the years is that Ford had  between 50 and 100 of each of the these 
> 3x2
> intakes made. As a Ford engineer told me at the Shelby National in D
> earborn
> yrs ago; the only real cost back then was the tooling cost, once that was
> done, the cost to turn out the intakes was negligble. 
> 

> Best regards, 
> 
> mike gilmore, 1984 GT-5  
> 
====

Thanks Mike!

Mike
>