My experience has been that the older intakes are worth $$$ only to those who want or need them for a specific reason; I had a '64 WCFB intake and a '66 4G intake for a long time before finding people (both list members, incidentally) who were interested in them. Same goes for 4G carbs...which are still sitting in my basement, Gary! ;^) They're out there but not worth as much as you might think.
I think from a performance standpoint the modern intakes and carburetors offer wider variety and better bang for the buck but the older stuff has a coolness that can't be duplicated. I'm half-tempted to rebuild one of my 4Gs (both of which are missing the tags so finding a kit might be tough), get a matching intake, and put them on my '77 C10 guinea pig (350) just to see what happens... Brad O. > Without meaning to deflect the technical drift of this thread, I had a thought: > > Whatever happened to those old Carter (WCFB?) and Rochester (4CG?) > four-barrels that I remember coming with up-rated 283s? They flowed far > less than 600cfm -- nearer 400 or 450cfm, I think -- and seemed to do the > business pretty well. > > But then, I suppose both these carbs and the manifolds designed for them are > now collector's items and pricier than Fabrege eggs. > > SM
