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

[Charles Engles]

Dear Jeff and Gary,


               OOH!  Touche!!


                              Warmest regards, Chuck Engles



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Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 9:37 AM
To: Jeff Detrich
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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