Early 70'sFord Pinto 28/36 or 32/36 Webers

[kiwi303]

How common are they in the pick n pulls and junkyards over stateside? I'm looking for one to fit a Hilux with a toyota 3y-j engine but got to thinking about a quad set on the rover V8 I have. like the pics below:

 

 

 

 

 

The last couple wouldn't be too difficult for a decent engineering shop to copy, with a inlet manifold to copy a flange off and the bases of the carbs to make a flange off, then just bend and weld some tubing for the runners.

 

But downdraft twin throat carbs aren't that common here, the ford pinto wasn't sold in NZ and the other good source for them, the 60-80 Fiats ditto.

 

 

 

so, how hard would it be to get someone in the states to trip around the junkyards and collect a matching set of 70's pinto carbs?

 

Am I dreaming, and pintos are all rusted and gone already, or are there oodles around?

[capt_furious]

They're a fairly rare sight these days. Like Ralph Nader's book to the Corvair, the installation of a pair of gas tank hold down bolts from the wrong direction (which were fixed in a recall - evidently the bean counters found out these bolts took too long to install the right way, to prevent them from camming down into the fuel tank in a collision, and told the factory to flip them around to save assembly time - BIG mistake) spelled the death knell for what was otherwise a pretty good little car. Once a reputation for explosion - warranted or not - gets published in a magazine like Consumer Reports, it's all over. Seeing a Pinto, or even one in decent shape, is a more and more uncommon occurance these days.

 

...but to answer your question further, it sounds as if you're looking for a Weber DGAV, which is not the same beast in your photos. Those are Weber IDFs or IDAs.