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Weber carbs for a buick v6, hold on

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buickfed:
new dilemma. naturally buick only. bought this 125'' altered. we are going to try to run the altered with 2 buick v6's. back one will be with a 4-71 on it. front one will be with an inglese weber setup. these were made when mr peabody and the wabac machine was on tv.
the webers are a 3bbl and belong on a 67-68 Porsche. needless to say they are worth some dough.
the dilemma is cooling. making a water cooled system would be a big pain, so we are thinking of ''drinking fluid''. the big question is can we run ''drinking fluid'' in the webers? the holleys are no problem, just the webers. anybody know anything about this wild scenario?? lol

you chebbie guys got it easy.....come over to my side.....lol

jeff/21:
You can run alky in anything as long as the passages and jets are big enough.
but why run two different motors, one with a blower should be enough and run a bigger blower which would make the same boost at a lower speed.

buickfed:
just to be different. besides the engine is just sitting around doing nothing.
the fed uses a 350 buick with a 6-71 on it. how many of those do you see around

noslin:
i know on the aircooled vw's with 48's (same design but two port) with alky they were not able to flow enough when you start to get up to about 300hp.  problem is bowl size mostly, not enough volumn in the bowl to keep up.  in the bowl, you can cut that web in there and increase the bowl a little bit.  youll probably have to go to 300 needle and seats and drill the piss out of the jets.  a guy (and icon in the vw industry) to talk to would be Gary Berg.  he is rebuilding the IDA'a and they look immaculate when he is done. he is in so cal.   

buickfed:
stopped at the Porsche garage today to talk about the alky issue. they did say i was probably limited to h/p but it would be neat to try it. the mechanic ran buick turbos in days past. more thought is needed.
they just replaced an engine in one of the Porsches. it came in with a 215 buick engine in it. thats different. ;D

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