...on another thread, I posted this pic...... ....which got Seymours attention and he asked the following..... what year is the motor?.... where did the adaptors come from to mate the Olds intake to the motor?... whay is the Lincoln valve cover doing there?... Answers: motor is a 368 cu in '56 Lincoln; I looked forever to find a multi-carb Lincoln intake (I know, I know) gave up and took a flyer on a simple rumour -that early Olds intakes almost matched the ports and bolt holes for the '56 368 motor. I got the intake on eGay found a bunch of Holley 94's (7RT's) and realized that although the siamesed ports lined up ok, the intake and the heads had different 'mounting angles' (for want of a better term) and the carbs kind of leaned inward towards the centre oil galleys. I went to my local metal merchant and bought two slugs of billet, measured, measured, measured, and had a machine shop plane one side down to make a wedge as a kind of ad hoc adaptor.....I then hacked out holes for the ports...... ....the result is the first pic above (mockup) ....still have issues with water neck pipe but what the Hell...I'll figure something out..... anyway the rest of the car looks like this...... ...and is a '46 Lincoln Club Coupe (pppullleese don't call it a 'Zephyr') with a full frame transplant from a '56 Lincoln.......hence the 368..... ....any more questions Seymour? bgbdlinc
...Lincoln stopped using the 'Zephyr' name in 1942, I believe.....here are some more pics..... ...mockup with '48 Cad grille......shooting for the early Bertolucci custom essence...... bgbdlinc
...I'm assuming the ports were siamesed on the Cad motor as well? Did you have the low or high rise Olds intake? Curious? bgbdlinc
Take a look at your third picture. Are you planning on putting some kind of a divider in between the ports? It will run like shit if you don't. Just my $.02
....I can't take credit for the current state of the body work (i.e. sunken tag, funny tailights) since it was done by the disillusioned previous owner, however, a gang of guys and I got together last summer for the chop (The Great Canadian Back Bacon Whack!). Re: the sunken tag -I've seen early customs with them covered with transparent plexiglas -still undecided whether to fill it in or use plexi.... ....the frame swap worked out really well since no lengthening or shortening of the chassis was required and I really lucked out. The difference in the wheelbase between the the '46 chassis and the '56 chassis was merely 1" and the track was about the same -neither is noticeable..... bgbdlinc
...wasn't planning it put a divider between them -wouldn't the air flow just get a little more turbulence as it passes from the intake to the heads? School me... Thanks bgbdlinc
haha... that's funny, bc I had a feeling it wasn't a later Olds, judging by the timing cover, shape of the valley cover, (lack of) freeze plugs in the heads, dip stick location and the 2 studs off the head... etc etc That's really cool!!! But one thing, isn't that a '49 grille?
I think it will "blubber" at part throttle. The manifold will not function as designed. Also based on the firing order it may build up some serious reversion in one or 2 pairs of ports. You may also experience some vapor separation at higher speeds and wonder why a good mixture setting can't be found. Outstanding work, really. Only missing that detail. You'll be glad you did it. As far as the car itself, I don't know what the hell posessed you to do that to it, really. But what ever it was, keep it
Just goes to show you that just because you have FNG by your name does not mean that you don't know shit about cars. I'm looking forward to more pictures Great Job!!
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