Has anybody ever heard of this intake before? ---->Mays Dual 1-Barrel Manifold.
Found it while searching. Different design than i've seen.
Cory

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-'72 Valiant Sedan, Stock (For Now)

Certainly looks different.

Can't see how performance would be better with those 90deg turns

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

Yeah, that's certainly...different!

I think I like the Offenhauser type better. Curves are better than corners.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Im wondering if this is not an example of Thomas Mays, the british racer from the thirties who eventually developed racing heads for english fords? It does look suspicious could it not be from other international sixes particularly an aussie or british ford? I wouldn't go by anyones assumption on it. Its long in the tooth so it is most probably for a slant but are english versions diffferent in manifold interchangability? I don't know

Mays did some work on extended venturi effect ramming. That's what the log with long runners was about. It also overcame the inherent standing wave problem of existing logs at the time from the valves being too close to the carb venturi.

I've long been a fan of the Devin bodied cobbles that were run here and there and that Jag was one of the best, but I'd forgotten about his manifolds 'til I saw the e-bay item.

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OK my goof up, different Mays, I thought it might have been the other guy.

NOW that manifold gets interesting! Thanks for the link Dick....my search on Mays manifolds turned up zilch. I just might bid....think 2 TBs on a Mays manifold....

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Yeah....Im the one who destroyed this rare, vintage automobile.....

I think the MAYS intakes were made in Tampa FL and besides the 2x1, I believe there was a single 2bbl or 4bbl also. The runner's square turns doesn't look like something I'd want.
For those that was at the Slant Six Race in Valdosta GA a few weeks ago, there was a MAYS 2x1 version in the swap meet.

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Somebody bought it for $378 (wow!).

Was it anyone here?

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Dan check out its bid history it looks awfully fishy, jumped from $99 to $200 to $225 to $352...

Not sure I see anything fishy here. What strikes you as fishy about the bid history?

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

I used to notice odd bidders who, if you looked at their ID history, were registered like two ,three years ago but never purchased anything.Ive seen this more than a few times and wondered if the sellers didn't have a freind (or another computer) to raise the bid themselves. Ive seen this apparently backfire because said buyer would magically disappear and the article would be for sale again the following week.The best trick is to wait to literally the last 30 seconds then put your high bid in, it swamps the other bidders before they know what hit em. The thing not to do is put your highest bid in three days before because others will bump up the price meanwhile.

That is the same bidding technique I use, except that I wait for the last 10-15 sec's.
The other bidders don't have a clue what happened!!!! They are thinking "Oh yeah, I won, uh huh", then all of a sudden, WAM. It's not theirs, it's mine. HAHAHAHAHA.
Anyways, somebody really wanted that intake. Payed upwards for it.
Cory

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Yup, the only way to win an auction is to be not only the highest but also the last bidder. Bids beget bids.

And yes, shill bidding is a problem, and is essentially impossible to prove unless someone's really dumb and registers two eBay accounts from the same computer. And even then, there are circumstances in which that alone would not constitute proof.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Dan - if current bid was $99 why would someone jump the bid to $200 instead of $105 or $110, unles there was something funny going on? $225 to $352 is even a bigger gap. Unles the seller kept increasng the minimum bid increment during the progress of the sale.... is that even posible in an ebay auction? Sorry if it seems like a dense observation, I've never bought/sold anything directly myself on ebay just use it for more of a research tool then anything.