2x4 carbs "428"

[Cobra #3170]

Originally Posted by lovehamr

Since this thread is re-opened I do have a question about lateral Gs with side pivot float bowls. For years I've driven and raced Boss 302s, at one time I found an original Shelby 2x4 intake for it and ran it with 1850s for a while. In a staight line it went like stink but on a road or auto-X it would stumble all over the place in the corners. After setting the float levels to 10 or 20 different levels I gave up and went back to a 780 with center pivot float bowls and the ability to go around corners was returned. So my question is; how do you guys who run your cars get around the lateral G thing with multiple carbs?

Steve

Back in the late 60's I had a tunnel port in my Cobra with the single plane dual four manifold, I made adapter plates and turned the center pivot carbs 90 degrees like some TranAm cars and used dual cables to work the linkage, that worked pretty well but I don't think anybody on CC would like the "look".
I finally tried dual 550 cfm Holley two barrels with adapters on the dual four manifold that actually seemed to work the best in terms of flooding/starvation and made decent power. Thank God for fuel injection though, I have never had a carb set up that did not have a stumble under heavy braking and or cornering including Webers on a formula car.