Technical Flathead intakes

Hi all, I just purchased a pair of flathead Ford V8 intake manifolds tonight for dirt cheap, along with four carburetors. The carbs I can identify, but the manifolds are a mystery to me, and I can't find any distinguishable markings on them. One appears to be aluminum.

Does anyone have a clue what they came off of? I can post more pictures if it helps! Just ask where you would like me to point the camera, I'll also be doing more research to try to figure things out thanks a ton!

 

Photobucket is dead these days.

 

No photobucket.

 

4hrs posted and the Image is gone.
" Please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting "is wearing a little thin now. Some awesome info out there but no images!!!
So are the image lost to the giant cyberspace forever?

 

Shoot! Didn't know photobucket was down. I'll figure something else out here today

 

Sorry again about the photobucket fiasco, I haven't uploaded pictures to a forum in quite a while. Now, hopefully my album isn't set to private!

IMG_0381 by blackandgold posted Jul 28, 2017 at 7:34 AM

Image by blackandgold posted Jul 28, 2017 at 7:34 AM

Image by blackandgold posted Jul 28, 2017 at 7:34 AM

Image by blackandgold posted Jul 28, 2017 at 7:34 AM

Image by blackandgold posted Jul 28, 2017 at 7:34 AM

One picture of the strombergs for kicks and grins. The smooth topped intake has a casting mark on the bottom, it appears to say 40 - 65 - 20

I can't find any distinguishable marks on the intake you can see the ports. I might try sandblasting that one tonight at work and see if there's anything hidden under the grime

 

That didn't work either. Maybe a drawing???? LOL!

 

Take the pics and post direct to HAMB.Linkie no workie.

 

Photobucket no longer does "Free" third party hosting. I am totally pissed about this. Now you have to pay a fee for third party hosting. Anybody know of a different site that does third party hosting for free?

Andy

 

Well what the heck, I made an album here and uploaded directly to it... I'll try to figure it out!

 

Copy & Paste. HRP

 

How's this?

 

How's this?

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/image.554410/download

 

Still get a "HAMB Error".

 

I suppose this thread flopped! I did find out (from the carb on it) the intake is from a '32 or '33 flatty. It has a Ford Detroit Lubricator carb on it, and as far as I can tell it was only used for those two years (correct me if I'm wrong!)

The other intake I'm not totally sure on, but I think it came off of an 8BA. It seems to match up to one on a junk engine at the shop I work at.

Too bad the pictures won't work

 

Just hit the "upload a file" at the bottom and choose the pics you want to post.

 

Does the 32ish intake have a vertical hole to hold the generator post?

 

Intakes were different for '32 and '33. Detroit Lubricator carbs were similar for both years.

 

Do they look like any of these? From the wall of intakes at the Speedway museum. Either the HAMB app or imgur is what I use to post pics.

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It has a slant cut hole with a bottom, roughly 2" across if that's what you're referring to!

Is there a way to tell them apart?


Thanks in advance!

 

I wish they looked like these! I'd trade the two of them for one of those

 

The 1933 Detroit Lubricator has provision for hand throttle, the 1932 Detroit Lubricator does not. The throttle body on the 1932 is not drilled completely through, just a cast iron "bump" on the side opposite the throttle.

Also, unless someone has changed the dataplate on the Detroit, the stamped number will be in the format of a letter followed by 5 numbers. This is code. The letter represents the month of production (A=January, B=February, etc.). The first 2 digits from the left are the last 2 digits of the year of production. So from the preceding sentence a code of B-33xxx would mean the carburetor was produced in February of 1933. The last 3 digits are the "tag" or identification number.

Jon.

 

Thanks a ton for the info! There doesn't seem to be much information about these.

Edit,
Where would I find that code? I've been looking, but it's in rough shape so it's hard to find much for identification on it.

 

I don't know of any for free that handle a serious quantity of photos.
I've had two paid Photobuckets accounts for years the Mr48Chev account being a "pro" account and will loose about 15 K photos in the next few months or won't be able to share them on sites and that is what I have the accounts for. I sure don't have 400 for each account and the 35 for one and 50 something for the other right now seems to be rather spendy.

I started a Smugbug account but it isn't free just more affordable with no limit on photos or sharing.

 

Looks like Pac Man and Miss Pac Man porn...

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Like Cactus said, upload them to the message board directly from your computer. That's what I do.

 

The Detroit Lubricator code is found STAMPED (not a raised casting number) on the flat surface of the bowl cover. If dirty or rusty, you will not see it.

As to information on the Detroit Lubricator carburetors, you won't find a lot. Why? Because the carburetor seemed to be above the mechanical level of most Ford mechanics. One cannot admit that one cannot get something to work, rather one states "this (*&^%$# carburetor is no *&^%$ good!). The Packard, Cadillac, Dodge, and Graham mechanics didn't seem to have the same problems. For this reason, plus the change to a two-barrel in 1934, most of the Detroits got replaced.

Jon.

 

Thanks a ton for the help. I actually found out the third stromberg I have is from a '35 Packard. It's stamped EE-14

 

That single intake is not 32. Might be a 33.