F.I Plunum Serial #1 through #50 Do You Have One?

[Clem Z.]

Re: F.I Plunum Serial #1 through #50 Do You Have One?

Thanks John! 'Back in '69 I was at Elkhart Lake and was fortunate to meet a Gulf engineer who helped design the velocity stacks for the McLarens. He mentioned that some fellow engineer had worked on Corvette FI units years before.

Steve

was that ron mccaferty?? he is who did the HP curve chart on this. http://www.racingicons.com/gs/004/gulf.htm. ron is in calif now.

[Tom P.]

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---------------------------------------------------------------And Tom, You own the car, you do whtever you want. Sometimes it is nice to be a little different.

Monte

Doing the conversion to a dual meter unit is NOT the problem-------------the problem is locating the parts-----------------at less than an astronomical price!!!!!!!!! The main part that I need is a COMPLETE 62 air meter.

[Monte M.]

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Tom,
I look for this stuff in a lot of strange place out here in California. I actually see things at pretty fair prices sometimes.
I just bought a complete unit, with the distributor and all, (no air cleaner of course) about eighteen months ago for $3000. It turned out to be a very nice unit. The only thing wrong with it, was a few pieces of the choke were missing.
All I can tell you is I will keep my eyes open for you. If I find something, I will send the the e-mail address or phone number where it is, so you can make the deal money wise.
Before you work anything out with prices, I will be glad to go take a look at it before you buy it to see what shape it really is in. It might cost you a beer sometime.
EDIT: I actually paid $3,500 for the unit. I went back and looked it up to make sure because I would have been a lot happier if I had paid $3000 for it. Just wanted to clear that up. Too many number running around in the head. Is this what getting older feels like? (LOL)
Monte

[Michael G.]

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Michael, Nice pic of the proto baseplate part number. When I bought the FI unit that came with that baseplate, at first I thought someone had bubba'd the part number area and welded-up a 62 baseplate...I didn't think Winters would have put out a part that looked like that or that Chevrolet would have accepted it.

After some of the comments below, I'm wondering if the 1925 unit (that came to me with the proto baseplate), might have originally been a dealer replacement for one of the early units Monti is seeking here.

[Bob B.]

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Would 63 FI unit #1001 look something like this?

Mike after looking at your picture fill me in on what distributor that is laying there. It sure don't look anything like my early unit. Birch

[Michael H.]

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Mike after looking at your picture fill me in on what distributor that is laying there. It sure don't look anything like my early unit. Birch

The distributor that was in the picture is from a non FI car. Here's a better shot of the unit.

[Bob J.]

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The distributor that was in the picture is from a non FI car. Here's a better shot of the unit.

Sure would have been nice to see the rear of that unit........many opinions out there regarding the humps and who did what to them.Bob

[Steven B.]

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was that ron mccaferty?? he is who did the HP curve chart on this. http://www.racingicons.com/gs/004/gulf.htm. ron is in calif now.

Clem, sorry but I just do not remember.

Steve

[Clem Z.]

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Clem, sorry but I just do not remember.

Steve

ron was in charge of the dyno room at gulf research here in pittsburgh back in the day