I spoke with Pony Carburetors, Inc today, they said they are selling Fomoco
reproductions and have never had a problem, they are sending me another
spacer plate free of charge. I am running a fiberglass LAT hood and did not
have any clearance issues when I had the spacer plate on the car.
I noticed it was cracked when I pulled off the piece of crap Holley 600
CFM double pumper I bought on ebay and put back the 1850 that was on the
car. I'll give the pony spacer one more try as it is the simplest solution
to the problem. I don't want to pull the manifold to drill and tap. The
carburetor universal base plate solution sounds good, is that a Holley
part?
Thank you for the feed back, I appreciate the help .
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Laifman" <SLaifman@SoCal.rr.com>
To: "Ken Ritacco" <ritacco0758@charter.net>
Cc: "tiger forum" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: PVC spacer plate
> Ken,
>
> Both Seam (Moonstone) Ford and I have a lot of genuine Boss 302 1/4 inch
> spacer plates. They are well made, rare, and were purchased for the F4B
> use you envision. I am sure we can make a deal to sell them all to you,
> as they work just fine - if you do not mind cutting a hole in your hood
> for the air cleaner sides to stick thru. (9-)
>
> The ORIGINAL Edelbrock F4B TIGER version solution was to drill out the
> front left air runner boss (left blank in normal production) and install
> a right angle hose connect to the PCV hose.
>
> Other solutions are to replace the bottom carb base plate with a
> universal 600 CFM model that already has a port in it. Don't sweat the
> slightly larger butterfly valves, as they to not reach the smaller 1848
> choke, and are the same as the 1859 choke.
>
> Steve
>
> Ken Ritacco wrote:
>
> > Hello all this is my first post, I have a 1966 tiger Mk1A # B382001158.
> >I'm running a F4B with a holley 1850 on a 5 bolt 289 hipo and would like
to
> >run a PCV system. I had installed a plastic 1/4 inch thick plate under
the
> >carb that had a PCV tube that I had purchased from pony carburetors, Inc.
> >but it was of poor quality and cracked at the tube location.
> > Is there a metal spacer on the market with a PCV tube that will fit. I
was
> >told that a Boss 302 spacer would work, were they originally metal.
> >Are the any other ways to get a PVC tube into an F4B.
> >thanks,Ken
> >
> >
>
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>
> Steve Laifman
> Editor
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