[pont3]

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[Stuart]

I've seen them, but they weren't common back then and so they're even less common today. As mentioned in the ad it's for 1959-1960, so it won't work on newer engines.

[lemansboy70]

Yup. I had one I was putting together for a 1960 389 in a '57 Pontiac. Ended up selling it to guy who came by to buy some parts for his '62.

[Jeff Hamlin]

[tom s]

Stuart, it can work with a little work.Cut the water inlets off the front of the intake,use a KRE water Xover and do a port match on the heads and intake.Tom

[Goatracer1]

Log manifolds were popular before large 4bbl carbs were common. My buddy had one on a Buick.

[389]

You will hate that car on the street with that set up.. That is for drag racing only...

[carbking]

The six two-barrel manifold has a redeeming feature (assuming the owner is sufficiently good at tuning carbs).

The two center carbs may be present as dummies (not functional), and the four end carbs all run all of the time.

CAN be made to work well on the street, MUCH better than a tripower. I remember a couple that ran them on the street, but only used the four ends.

Log manifolds were popular because the junkyards were full of cheap two-barrels, and the larger single carbs cost $$$$$$$$$$

They were also less expensive to produce. Make the forms for the log with replaceable inserts for the cylinder head side, and one could easily convert the form from engine to engine. Much cheaper than solid manifolds.

I probably have some of them around here somewhere.

Jon.

[rustedgoat]

Always remember seeing them at the swap meets in the 80's-90's

[Jack Gifford]

I've seen way more Crower U-Fab log manifolds than cast ones like the Edelbrock. Cheaper was a big deal to us back then.

[NeighborsComplaint]

There was a kid that worked at the Purple Martin Gas station mear me that put a setup like that on a 327 Chevy in a Chevelle. The thing sounded like a washing machine running. I had a '66 Fairlane GT and he wanted a race every time I came and gassed up. This was late '60's and that setup was already old school. I laughed it off until he got really pesky one night. I agreed to race and he couldn't get it started. I'll never know how it actually ran but my educated guess would be not so good. I'll give him credit for getting for just getting it to run.

[Drag Star Le Mans]

Very common in late 50s early 60s. I have half of a Weiand Drag Star set up I planned to run on my 62 Le Mans 4cyl. This is how my forum name came about, Drag Star Le Mans. The curveball is I sold the LeMans and maybe this will go into a 29 Ford Model A???

[carbking]

Used to see these with block-off plates on the two center carbs.

The manifolds were made by a number of manufacturers.

The block-off plates were cast, and carried the name of the manufacturer.

If the two centers were blocked-off, the manifolds took on some of the characteristics of a modified IR manifold. Later IR manifolds (early 1960's) used four Weber two-barrels. Generally, the folks that used the logs used either Stromberg EE-1 carbs or Holley AA-1 3-bolt mounting carbs; although I have seen a couple of these that were either factory or user-modified for 4-bolt mounting, such as the 2-G Rochesters.

The folks that couldn't make them run would have been better off with a 4-barrel, or maybe learning to synchronize multiple carburetors.

Jon.