"Almquest used to make things for those who could not afford factory parts. They made both carb and exhaust flanges to weld onto stock manifolds."
If you use an exhaust manifold from a truck,the outlet is spaced about a third of the way towards the rear of the engine,and spaced exactly the same as the stock car excaust manifold outlet is at the rear. It's even titled back at a bit of an angle.
The downside to that is you have to buy a truck manifold to use with your car manifold. The other alternative is to just weld a flanged pipe extension into your car exhaust manifold,but I don't think they sound or perform as well as the "two manifold" method. I don't think they look as good,either.
Not that the performance is all that big a deal on a daily driven street car. If I was that concerned about performance I'd just put something like a modern Mustang GT engine in it.
What I am mostly doing is trying to re-create a mid-50's 51 Ford coupe hot rod built by a working class kid that couldn't afford or be able to make engine and trans swaps. I'm even going to restore the interior and paint it a factory color. This is a keeper car for me that won't be sold until it hits my estate sale,so I'm building it to please me without any regard to what others think or resale value. Right now I am driving it every day it isn't raining,and loving the hell out of it. It looks even worse today than it does in the avatar because I am sanding it down to the bare metal a few square feet at a time,and painting it with whatever spray cans I have sitting on the shelf to preserve it. Everybody should be as happy with their car as I am with this one.
When it's raining I drive junk stuff like my new pu.
Last edited by Bender; 12/20/15 10:44 PM.
