[DeTomaso] FW: Cain (AussieSpeed) Cleveland IDF Manifold

[Jeff Detrich]

Why do Webers when you could do fuel injection?

Jeff
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:47 PM, <cengles at cox.net> wrote:

> Dear Julian and Corey,
>
>
>                 I have always been a fan of the Webers stack, but I have
> learned that it does come with a price.   Given the availability of an
> excellent Cleveland IDF intake manifold for IDF Webers, then........what
> would the associated costs be for eight IDF carbs plus throttle linkage
> plus anything else pertinent to such a project??   $825 + shipping +
> carbs + special throttle linkage = about how much to have a stack of IDF
> Webers atop the Cleveland?
>
>
>                           Curious,  Chuck Engles
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Julian Kift wrote:
>
> > Some of you might recall back in 2011 I was trying to pull together a
> > group buy for the Aussie Speed manifold, there was some interest but
> > we never quite got the minium 5 committment.
> >  There has been some renewed discussion and interest on the PI forum
> > so I thought I'd try and resurrect the group buy to see if we can't
> > get enough people to make this happen. I'm just looking for expression
> > of interest at present and then we can get an idea of discount
> > available based upon potential numbers.
> >  The US$ has recovered a little recently which puts the list price of
> > AUS$925 around US$895 + shipping from Australia. I was also hoping to
> > take advantage that many buyers might be at the Fun Rally so potential
> > savings on shipping if all the manifolds are bulk shipped to one
> > address and distributed from there. (assuming Aussie Speed has
> > sufficient current stock which they are verifying next week).
> >  Those interested drop me an e-mail offline and we'll go from there.
> > Julian
> >
> >  On Feb 26, 2011 1:21 AM, "Julian Kift" <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> > Many years ago there was a Cleveland IDF pattern IR manifoild
> > manufactured by Cain in Australia. It has been out of production for
> > many years and became 'unobtainium', leaving the only option for those
> > wanting to use a Weber IDF carb setup to obtain an IDA style manifold
> > and use IDF adapters. The adapters raise the carbs significantly,
> > requiring removal of the screen and notching of the decklid like
> > IDA's. The IDF carbs are more streetable than the IDA's and the Cain
> > manifold maintains the carbs low enough it allows use of the IDF's
> > with filters to all clear the decklid/screen.
> >>
> > A few years ago AussieSpeed acquired the rights to the Cain manifold
> > and I have been following the progress of production of the IDF
> > manifold by AussieSpeed. That manifold is now available and
> > AussieSpeed alluded to a discount for a group buy, so dual purpose of
> > this e-mail is to a) make those unaware that the option to use IDF's
> > and retain stock screen/decklid is areal one and b) to gauge interest
> > in a group buy. AussieSpeed won't commit to a discount until we have
> > some numbers but I'd expect to get at least 10% on up to five, more if
> > we can get higher buy in. Anyone half way seriously interested?
> >>
> >> Here is the original Cain manifold;
> >> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=29150
> >>
> >> The AussieSpeed reproduction;
> >> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=29146
> >>
> >>
> http://www.aussiespeed.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.product_details&flypage=vmj_ace.tpl&product_id=223&vmcchk=1&Itemid=23
> >>
> >> And here are 48IDF's with filters fitted to a Pantera, all snugly
> >> under the screen.
> >> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=29153
> >>
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