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

Bill Moore Bill at incendium.com
Sat Jan 26 11:30:29 EST 2013


New Mustang, not a vette, but that's just me and or Kirby. Not to rain on anyone else here, this is a '70's Ford classic V8 and needs a naturally aspirated 4B carb. 

Cheers,

Bill
Calgary

-----Original Message-----
From: gow2 at rc-tech.net
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Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:37:22 
To: Jeff Detrich<jjdetrich at gmail.com>
Cc: <detomaso at poca.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] FW: Cain (AussieSpeed) Cleveland IDF Manifold

Why buy a 1971 Pantera when you can have a new Corvette?



> Why do Webers when you could do fuel injection?
>
> Jeff
> 6559
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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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