1964 L75 carburetor istallation

[Jef S.]

At the point now of actually bolting things back on my 64. When my car was found after 35 years of hypernation the original carb was still on the manifold but no insulator spacer, or a baffle plate. We ran the cam in on a dyno after rebuild without these items. First silly question these are indeed factory installed items on a L75 engine? is there any adhesives between these parts?

[Timothy B.]

Re: 1964 L75 carburetor istallation

Jef,

Yes, those are the factory pieces you need, the sandwich order is intake manifold, gasket, phenolic spacer then stainless shield and carburetor.

Make sure you get the correct gasket that has holes for the manifold hot slot and read in the archives about blocking this slot as todays gasoline will percolate much easier with all that heat on the aluminum carburetor.

[William C.]

Re: 1964 L75 carburetor istallation

The SS plate is required to keep the exhaust gasses from eating the bottom out of the AFB

[Jef S.]

Re: 1964 L75 carburetor istallation

Hi what would the thread be titled for the blocking of this slot? I have 2 gaskets one with slots and the one the dyno operator used to run the cam in without slots.

[William C.]

Re: 1964 L75 carburetor istallation

Tim referenced that, I didn't. Haven't owned a Carbureted car for years, although I know the gasket sequence. I'd do a search on "manifold crossover" or "Carb Exhaust heat"

[John H.]

Re: 1964 L75 carburetor istallation

Hi what would the thread be titled for the blocking of this slot? I have 2 gaskets one with slots and the one the dyno operator used to run the cam in without slots.

Jef -

Do a search using "hot-slot" as the keyword and you should get lots of hits.