Original 289/Weber Carb Question

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by 1795

Dan,
Those look like DCOE's to me. Same orientation, body and air horns.
Do you know if they made any modifications to the cold air intake to redirect the air for a side draft carb? On my MGB I fabricated a cold air box that would take air from the side of the radiator and block any air coming through the radiator from the air horns. A hood scoop would not feed side draft carbs very well.
Jim

I have no idea as no pictures of such an installation in a Cobra have turned up in public that I have come across. There are pictures of what look like a painted sheet metal or wooden mock up side draft intake stored in the Petersen archive online.

https://archive.petersen.org/pages/v...it=&ref=860918


(The first down draft “Weber” intake for a Cobra was a mock up made of wood and painted to sort of look like it was an aluminum casting. A picture of the mock up was included in an early Cobra / FIA registration form set. Early on Shelby American created a collection of ‘cold air boxes’ for down draft systems. For whatever reason cold air boxes were rare after mid summer 1963. Most works prepared racers did not use cold air boxes. It also didn’t take long for Shelby American to determine that baffling or completely blocking hood scoop nacelles was real important. )

(LOL, any complete collection set of intakes would require those two wooden mock ups.)