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

[Corey Price]

David,

I am told by the guy who bought one recently that the manifold doesn't have enough material to port to the full 4V iron port size.  He told me it was somewhere around 7mm short.  I revised my post to reflect this. 

Corey




On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:16 PM, David Fisher wrote:

> I'm coming in late on this one - Q: on the heads this manifold will bolt up
> to.  It looks like 2V with no porting, and 3 or 4V with porting??    I was
> contemplating CHI heads at some point.   Anyone tested that concept with
> this setup?
> 
> If I get time, I will also through this into the engine simulator and do a
> compare to a holley with various manifolds and cams.   I'll post what I
> find  - probably take me a few days.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>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
>>> 
>>> Julian
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