What carbs on a 3.0 V6?

[azz-bo]

I'm looking into gettin some juicy carbs for the motor at the end of the month. What would be best, triple weber's 40dcnf or a holley 4bbl on a swaymar manifold? The engines abit far back so not sure whether the webers will fit but i spose i could always cut. Just interested in performance and difference in price really. Cheers Azz

[PlopPlop]

Not sure about perfomance but you cant beat the look of triple Webbers, and proberbly be best performing too aside from throttle bodies, (and two turbo's ).

[nalaeroom]

Don't know technical stuff personally but these might help.......

 

The date is 7th December 1978

 

 

Alan

[azz-bo]

Nice 1 nalae I'll keep hold of this incase I decide to go down the weber route

[dyt397c]

you`ll get more power with triple webers but a Holley is easy to keep tuned and better on fuel too. i ran a Holley on my Anglia with an essex in it for 6 years. only thing i had a problem with was the float`s sticking!!

[deluxemk1]

A holley 390 will do the job ok we had a evil v6 mk1 tina with vulcan heads n other mad stuff that carb was great on there. The webbers look awesome ,but would props be a pain in the arse to set up

[Col-ashtonmobile]

triple 42 dcnf the only way to go, i changed from a 390 holley to these and it transformed the performance

[Mr Sam]

^^^^ and mark my words they sound the dogs dangalies too

[danny69]

I have gone for a holley 390 set up.

They are capable of fuelling to over 200bhp if the engine spec allows but are cheaper to buy, set up and run than a set of triple webbers.

If money were no object though I would have the webbers.

[dawesy1700]

i've seen big bike carbs on a v6, v8 and even an aston martin v12, they worked fantastic and returned stupidly good mpg for the motor, just thought i'd drop that in.

[Copey]

i've seen big bike carbs on a v6, v8 and even an aston martin v12, they worked fantastic and returned stupidly good mpg for the motor, just thought i'd drop that in.

 

go bike carbs, they are the way forwards!

[danny69]

Bike carbs would be great but the essex manifold doesn`t lend itself to modification.

[dawesy1700]

you'd be best off getting a maniflod made up from bogg bros, they're the ones who did the aston, and a ferarri if i recall, they'd probs make a custom kit too, so you could probs have 1 bike carb per pot, plus they look the nuts. i dont know how much that'll cost but for my kit on a xflow was £550, but i wouldn't recomend buying the carbs from them, source your own n let them jet them etc. if you visit their site it shows sum of the manifolds on big engines, very nice.

[dyt397c]

best bike carbs to use on an Essex would be off a Triumph triple(2 sets) i could do a manifold cheaper than Bogg Bros!

[azz-bo]

I dont fancy going down the bike carb route tbh, its too fandangley. them webers look the nuts. money aint a problem really but its still nice to know, around how much would 3 42dcnf's n a manifold cost?

[erick]

My manifold was direct from ric wood at the time was about £450 the 42 dcnfs came from a v6 maserati with linkage from ebay, £180 I think I paid at the time, don’t see many come up for sale these days.

 

If you could find a original ford manifold and carbs £1500 would be about you would have to pay for a good set up.

 

 

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