Thickstun Dual Carb Intake Manifold

[ashyers]

I just spotted this on ebay. Has anyone ever used one of these? It's design is a bit different than the typical Edmunds or Offy manifolds. From what I can tell someone is making new ones.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/143401470783

[RMS]

thats perdy !

I like the long curves looks like it would flow well.


them carter look close I wonder if there is room for a couple dcoe's ?

[RMS]

they make very nice valve covers too!

[Cal_Gary]

Never heard of 'em but they sure look nice!
Gary

[Kaegi]

that does look really nice

[ashyers]

I asked the vendor if he's interested in some dyno time on the intake and here's the response:

"Hi Andy,
Thank you very much for your note.
The intake was made from the original patterns and tooling owned by the son of the guy (Frank Baron) who made them in period (1940s and 1950s).
When Tommy Thickstun died in 1946, Frank Baron and Bob Tattersfield took over the Thickstun business as well as developing the Tattersfield range of speed parts.
We are slowly working through the original patterns to recast the speed parts in the US again and we have just sold all of the first batch of the Thickstun Dodge/Plymouth intakes.
The second batch of intakes is currently in production and when we have stocks again we may contact you to take up your offer of a dyno test of the intake on a running motor.
Tommy Thickstun was ahead of his time in the design of early speed parts beginning in the late 1930s, so it will be interesting to see how the intake performs.
Kind regards."

I'm happy they are reproducing some of these old hot rod parts. I'd really like to try one out and see if any gains are relevant to the M37's RPM range, which seems to be limited by the piston speed and transfer case temp.

[Cal_Gary]

That is some great historical context Andy, thanks for sharing!
Gary