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Debuted at SEMA 2006

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I saw this on Speed last night. Barry Grant was being interviewed and announced that this would hit the market soon. Claimed better fuel distribution. In line 4 bbl, on what appears to be Mopar or LS1 heads.
Demonstrates real "Thinking outside the box" even though Autolite was there first.

Wow -- reminds me of the Autolite Boss in-line carb. (Very rare.) I bet the new system will be pricey...

http://www.mustangmonthly.com/featur...stang+carb.jpg

One cool thing -- it might work great under an oval shape "COBRA" air cleaner...!

:)

I talked to the BG rep about these, and he said they are working on an intake for the SB Ford. Its a pretty cool carb, totally progressive. It might even get decent mileage. :D

All BG has to do is price it well below a set of Webers and they'll sell many of them. Though I'm not sure how many will spring for a carb that will most likely be priced above $2K. It is a cool looking (different) set-up.

-Dean

Dean, agree...just the appearance by itself with stacks will sell the in-line system, even without any performance improvements. Another WOW factor for the Cruise night discussions.

Yes the concept of the inline 4bl was done by Ford® on their Cross-Boss intake systems used in Trans-Am racing in 1969 & 1970. They were banned in 1971 and know one else has worked on the idea since then since most sanctioning bodies still have it in their rules that inline carburetors are illegal.

Let’s first start off with a standard 4bl carburetor: The 4bl carburetor was designed out of packaging convenience not performance in mind. The first engines had a single (1 barrel) carburetor. As they required more air engine builders added more one barrel carburetors, then for packaging purposes the idea came about to mount all four barrels together. This makes your fuel lines, linkage, etc all much easier, however it leaves you with a problem within the intake manifold. You wind up with 4 longer runners, and 4 shorter runners. This is not real good for distribution. The idea behind putting all 4 barrels inline is first and foremost that we’re able to equalize the length of the runners. This allows use to use the longest runner possible within the shortest height.