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

[David Fisher]

Thanks Corey.   I should have read your blog already.    I'll check the
heights on the CHI 3V heads.   I expect those ports are smaller than a
Cleveland Iron head, but haven't actually checked.




On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Corey Price <coreyjprice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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