Anyone here using a side draught carb on their slant? I'm just curious to hear some opinions on how well they work.

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what, like the clark cortez sidedraft or like triple webers? theres a few running three-deuce setups here, one has an active thread posted to within the past couple days.
the general consensus is that triple webers work very well once tuned properly, but you cant just slap them on a stock engine. it is not a bolt-on scenario.

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If and when I get around to resurrecting my '66 Valiant, if I stick with the slant six I'll be trying out a set of bike carbs from a late 90s sport bike. They're a popular modification over here in England on 4 cylinder engines - one throttle body per cylinder, and as they are constant depression carb like a stromberg or SU, you get better driveability than you would with webers or the like.

Obviously a custom intake is required but the carbs can be quite cheap - and easily upgradeable to fuel injection by scoring the throttlebodies off of a later version of the bike you got the carbs from.

Triumph use a three cylinder engine, so two sets of triumph carbs should do the trick.

There was a thread floating around the race section from a guy with snowmobile carbs on a Slant dragster. He said it is not all that tough to make them work. Bike carbs should be relatively similar.

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Have a look at Australian sites - there are manifolds available for 3 side draughts from pentastar restorations

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Goodaye, here in the Land Downunder multiply carbs are comon on sixes. I'm running twin 1 3/4" SU carbs on an old Lynx manifold but triple SU or Weber/Dellorto carbs are more the norm. I can Supply new triple SU or Weber manifolds through the post if needed. Bike carbs can be used but the tuning etc can be a long proccess as you need to take into account the cylinder volume that the carb was suppling to that it will be. In my opinion triple 45mm Webers is the best way to go as these are advalible new again. There are a few Slants racing in historic touring cars here that on the tighter tracks beat 289ci Mustangs. Triple webers were used by Chrysler Australia in the early seventies for production racers on the E38 and E49 Valiant Chargers with the Aust. made Hemi 6cyl motors, these where 265ci.

in your opinion what needs to be done to your engine before it is ready for triple webers?

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I'ld say cam, head, comp., exhaust as for final specs it comes down to what you want, racecar, either curciut or drag, or just a strong streeter. Let me know and I'll see if I can help.

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This is the problem with Webers - marvelous carbs - close to what I will call the optimum in carb tech -BUT they are bloody expensive - the dual setup with 36 DCD's that i am doing.....the carbs alone are $ 1000 - cost

But once they are setup - they keep on trucking - duals and tripples need to be kept in sync..tends to be a pain if the linkage setup is not rigid enough

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Hey Fanie(sorry to steal the thread) heres a place that looked very reasonable. I plan to run the 2 carter/webers when I get my dual intake Christmas present from you in Jan

Oooops guess this would help: Langdons stovebolt.com

where would you put an air cleaner on those webers? or is there like an internal air cleaner?

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There's nothing such as an "internal air cleaner".

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