Posted on 12/09/2020 12:46:21 PM PST by ETL
Within its era and beyond, the Mercury was popular with customizers. In 1949, Sam Barris built the first lead sled from a 1949 Mercury, became the definitive “lead sled”, much as the Ford V-8 (as the “deuce”) was becoming the definitive hot rod. The Mercurys were among the first models to receive an aftermarket OHV engine swap, since Oldsmobile and Cadillac developed the first high-compression OHV V8 engines in 1949, whereas Ford was still using a sidevalve engine.
Sam and George Barris also used the 1949 body style to build “the most famous custom car ever” the Hirohata Merc, for customer Bob Hirohata in 1953.
The 'Hirohata Merc'
Setting a style and an attitude, it had a “momentous effect” on custom car builders, appeared in several magazines at the time, and reappeared numerous times since, earning an honorable mention on Rod & Custom’s “Twenty Best of All Time” list in 1991.
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Interesting
I see it here or I wouldn't post it
Try again ... 
LOL!
OK, now I see it.
Still not seeing it on your post 37 though.
Cool car Ping and Bump!
We worked with Jay at Allison on his car with the tank engine and an Allison transmission. He’s a good guy, surprisingly down to earth.
Doable, but sounds like much fabrication would be required. Never seen a manifold for 8 2 barrels not to mention the throttle linkage.
Other, easier ways to do the same thing.
Probably purdy cool though. Reason enough for a hot rodder.
That was nice of them!
My nephew uses an 871 to maniacal effect on one of my old Hemis in his '70 Roadrunner.
I know he is a lib, but...I am not sure he is a Leftist and...he seems like a decent guy.
Yes, cool. The more barrels you have, the more evenly the fuel is metered out to the cylinders. With a 2 or 4 barrel carb, the inner cylinders closer to the carb can suck a little more fuel then the outer ones where the fuel mix has to travel farther. Even with two four barrels, there is a chamber where the fuel air charge mixes before entering the cylinders. The old 8 stack, modern tuned port, or 8 webers are the only ones that give an equally metered charge to each cylinder.
we had a 1970 chev kingswood wagon with the 454....wide open throttle seemed you could see the gas guage dropping!!!
I also burned rubber across an entire parking lot with it.
Thanks. Now I have some understanding of the actual usefulness of multiple carbs in terms of performance. I had always assumed it had as much to do with the ‘cool factor’ as performance.
Stock engines may benefit from multiple carbs, but they have mass produced stamped valvetrain parts without rollers. Race cars have high strength machined valvetrains with rollers designed to rev much higher then stock. The need more or bigger carbs for the extra flow.
Just bolting a bigger carb (or multiple carbs) without high flow heads, headers, and a bigger cam only looks cool, it will not help performance; it could actually hurt causing the engine to stall.
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