The Cal-look Lounge

I got to borrow a laptop that allows vids. Found this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hipZYNm-ImM

 :o

Cool video. It always seems like IDAs sound the meanest on a flat 4. The Beetle must have the perfect shape and acoustics or bigger engines just subdue the growl.

Imagine what a pain it would be synchronizing all those Webers! 

 Sheesh!
I once had a customer with 4 48IDA's on a Pantera... that one was bad enough!
Pain in the rear to work on but the road test was worth it ;)

I bet Rayburn remembers that car.

~DR.

A few years ago, I was a buying a K5 Blazer from a guy that onwed a junkyard and we were in the "private" fenced off area of the yard . I walked over to this rough looking blue Mercury Couger and opened the hood and there four crusty looking IDA's on the equally crusty looking 351. He told me that it was a fairly rare Cougar Eliminator and neith the carbs nor the whole car were for sale. He also had a 66 GT350 mustang and a '69 BOSS 429 Hemi Mustang, which he said was worth a gton of money. 

Damn, my eyes are burnin'.... I bet that thing's STILL flooded!  Years ago, the guy who built the first of our sandrail frames sent me home with a crusty V8 intake manifold with four IDA's attached to it for me to rebuild.  I think he paid $200 for the whole deal :o :o :o.

hack, cough...
Actually on that BB Ferrari, it's only 4 Webers...  ;D, but they're 3bbls.
A lot of the road test reports I've read on the carbureted BB's... the author comments on the low rpm "richness" in the throttle response. Twelve throats with 12- 150 main jets and accelerator pump pipes... uh ya think it might run a little fat off idle?

The carbureted Boxers sound like muffled F1 cars  8)

                                               If I had a nickel for every time we took that car out when you had it..... You could literally watch the gas gauge going down. That poor car needed a rebuild after the amount of time we spent at red line.