Re: Engine Bay detailing on a '56 dual carb car

Posted by HH56 On 2010/11/2 10:48:15

I am thinking someone converted your car to the 2 carb setup from an original single and used what they had. As O_D mentioned, the factory dual carbs had coil on the firewall and on those with single carbs, coil was mounted behind the carb on intake manifold. With the dual setup, there was no place to mount in the regular spot so they chose to do it that way. The coil wire is fairly long and pointed away from the distributor as well which I don't believe Packard would have done.

When introduced, the newer style separators were to be used and were the same item for all 55-6 cars with a crossfire problem, no matter single or dual and just used existing holes.

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