Potential hood clearance issue - Edelbrock Victor vs Shelby FE manifold

[philminotti]

Carsten-

The Mass-Flo system CAN be made to work with a Kirkham. It does require quite a bit of massaging. A club cobra member, I think his login is "Murphy" , has done it.

I plan on using the system on a Kirkham and have already built my engine. I did preemptively mill the carb pad about a quarter inch (if memory serves). Any more than that and you end up with linkage problems. Mass-Flo also has an aluminum adapter that goes between the throttle block and the air filter which I had milled as well. Talking to Murphy, I got the impression that it's a matter of massaging all the parts and swearing alot, but it can be done. I think he is also using motor mounts that are a bit lower. The hood scoop cutout in the hood needed to be trimmed as well. Maybe he'll chime in here.

By the way, with all due respect to Chris Richards, the Mass-Flo system is not quite as plug and play as you might expect although it seems to work reasonably well out of the box. I was still messing with my system before it got cold, so I don't really have it dialed in yet...I'm having some timing issues I haven't nailed down yet.

phil