i know of a slant 6 triple webber manifold $150 au .

 

About $121 US dollars (at 6/28/09 conversion rate) for those who don't know the conversion.

That is a really good price.

 

my dad told me, when he had a slant six, that he could never get it to run right when he put a 390cfm carb. on it
just throwing it out there for some ideas

 

with stock internals the 390 is pushing it, but built up - mine ran like a mother#$%&er.

 

what carb. do you have on yours john?

 

i had the holley 390, stepped it up to a carter 500

 

how does the engine run with the 500?

 

from the box, jets are good but it needs slightly smaller metering rods. it runs great with that setup, even tooling around in the 110+ summers.

 

there is all so weber style manifold fuel injection set ups , from hemi performance . I'm guessing there expensive just like everything else .

 

when i was at my club's picnic the other day, i mentioned putting a 4-speed behind a slant six. One guy immediately said that you'll blow a rod by doing that. I said, "Oh really, and just walked away."
Now, I am 99% sure that he didnt know what he was talking about, but that 1% makes me wonder?

 

What? How does installing a 4 spd tranny behind a slant 6 going to cuase you to "blow a rod"?

Maybe he ment that you would "blow by people"?

 

haha
that is exactly what i thought

 

Hmmm, Dart Lite and Feather Duster were both /6-4spd cars if I recall correctly...

 

could you get a four speed with a slant six?
i thought you could only get a three speed.

 

they had a year in the 60's and 74 and 75 had them available.
mine came out of a 75 duster

 

can the later 4-speeds hold up behind a worked 440?

 

its the same tranny - on the od units the factory made actual 3rd od keeping 4th 1:1. they flipped the 3-4th shift lever so it will shift in order.

 

agree...I had an '80 Dodge pickup [1/2 ton short box ] that had the slant 6 and the 4 sp O.D. Man I should not have sold that. It actually got good gas mileage.{23 hwy}

 

but the newer four speeds are aluminum right?