Bigcheese327
11-23-2003, 10:22 PM
Last year some HAMBsters were looking into running early Pontiac heads on a post-'65 389 to net better transmission options with a commonly available tripower intake. I never heard what became of this study, probably because I went home for the summer.
This evening I had a discussion with a friend who is determined to build a nostalgia rod around the spare Pontiac 350 in his garage. Rather than run a boring ol' single quad he wants to run tripower. I suggested that since (I've heard) a 455 can run a '65-'66 tripower manifold that the 350 could too. However, of course, the last series of tripower are rare and expensive these days. So I thought that since the late intakes bolt to the later heads that the early heads could be swapped onto the late blocks and an early intake manifold could be used. Is this faulty logic or actually a viable option? He's not really into performance, he just wants a factory multi-carb look. I told him that if this doesn't work he should just buy an aluminum dual-quad intake, grind off the manufacturer's markings and paint it to match the rest of the engine.
This evening I had a discussion with a friend who is determined to build a nostalgia rod around the spare Pontiac 350 in his garage. Rather than run a boring ol' single quad he wants to run tripower. I suggested that since (I've heard) a 455 can run a '65-'66 tripower manifold that the 350 could too. However, of course, the last series of tripower are rare and expensive these days. So I thought that since the late intakes bolt to the later heads that the early heads could be swapped onto the late blocks and an early intake manifold could be used. Is this faulty logic or actually a viable option? He's not really into performance, he just wants a factory multi-carb look. I told him that if this doesn't work he should just buy an aluminum dual-quad intake, grind off the manufacturer's markings and paint it to match the rest of the engine.