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55panama wrote:I guess I got about three miles to the gallon. The car was running poorly, the carbs I was using were not the Caribbean carbs but old carbs I had laying around. FWIW, I've used professionally rebuilt single 4-bbl carbs on a Caribbean intake and with a direct reading O2 meter seen them producing ideal air/fuel ratio at cruise. Where the major difference is at idle and deceleration. The single 4-bbl has four idle passages. The correct dual 4-bbl carburetors plug the secondary idle passages, so the manifold sees only four, not eight idle passages. With all eight idle passages functioning, the air/fuel mixture will go dead rich on deceleration, wasting a lot of fuel. Also, the procedure for adjusting idle is critical and there is a Rochester Technical Bulletin which shows step-by-step how to correctly adjust the idle. As you probably know, the 1955 Caribbean carbs are quite different than the 1956 versions. jack vines
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Similarly, Studebaker-Packard dealers would build anything the customer wanted. The senior cars with manual transmissions usually came about because the Twin Ultramatic had failed so many times the customer didn't want to deal with it any more. The late Steve Williams owned a Caribbean converted to manual transmission by the San Francisco dealership. Those of us working with the 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk routinely come across cars with 374" and/or Caribbean 2x4-bbl conversions; the owners insist it was special ordered that way. The factory never built them that way, but the owners prefer to believe their own version. There was one factory special order '56 Golden Hawk which has been documented. An owner ordered a solid gray exterior and a red leather interior. This was not a factory option, but they did have the seats done by an outside upholstery shop and put the notation on the production order. jack vines
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Thanks, Howard.
jack vines
Posted on: 2023/11/8 13:06
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Does p/ 6439312 seem correct for an oil pressure sending unit?
jack vines
Posted on: 2023/11/8 10:24
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Max Merritt thinks a sending unit is worth $65-$95. I'll confirm which unit I've found and make someone a packardinfo deal. jack vines
Posted on: 2023/11/5 11:39
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FWIW, looking for something else, I found a NOS oil pressure sending unit.
Trying to set a fair value on it, I couldn't find it in Kanter's website. Anyone know where it is listed? jack vines
Posted on: 2023/11/3 14:03
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Re: WTB 4bbl intake manifold for a 23 series 327
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probably Agree, Packard did some interesting variations with those last 327"s, five mains and seven mains, hydraulic lifters and solid lifters. Where can we go to confirm the 4-bbl engines did in fact have higher compression and more camshaft duration? jack vines
Posted on: 2023/10/31 23:33
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Re: WTB 4bbl intake manifold for a 23 series 327
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So the considered opinion here is Packard Engineering was composed of idiots who just wasted money to no effect when they designed the four-barrel intake and used it on the 327"?
jack vines
Posted on: 2023/10/31 11:32
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Re: Crating/Palletizing an engine
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Depends upon whether it's a core or a rebuilt engine.
With a core, the easiest way is to pull the carb, distributor and rocker covers and lay it upside down on the pallet. strap it tight. If it's a rebuilt, we build a frame of 2x10s around the oil pan, set the engine in that and then strap to the pallet. jack vines
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