Quote:Agree, Kanter is not keeping their website current. Even their phone sales staff must physically go to the shelf on many items to confirm it is in stock.

Max Merritt thinks a sending unit is worth $65-$95. I'll confirm which unit I've found and make someone a packardinfo deal.

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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?

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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?

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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"?

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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.

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All one can say is, "That's unique. Of all the possible means of supercharging a Packard I8, that's one that never occurred to me.

The builder was a very good machinist, an even better welder, conceptually on a plane of his own.

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Best advice you'll ever get.

Core carbs are still thick on the ground. PM me if you need one.

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If no one closer to you has one, I can probably find a good one.

FWIW, because they're a metal stamping, they often get bent while the engine is being pulled/stored.

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PM with what you've got and how much.

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There's a reason few have installed that on modified '56Js. When you figure out how to do it, please share step-by-step with photos.

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