Yes I do mean rare. I saw one at the GS Nationals back in '87. One of the members brought it to the Nationals to show it to anyone interested to look at it. Greg Gessler and I checked it out and it was the real deal. Probably one of one made. It was a rare Buick factory experimental dual Quadrajet cast iron intake. It looked exactly like a stock two plane 455 4 bbl. intake, but with two places to mount a Q-jet. I did not take any pictures or video of this intake and wish I had. Does anyone know if there is a pic of this manifold anywhere online or of the whereabouts of that intake today?
Thanks for the reply Dan. I'm not looking to own it. I'd just like to see some digital pictures of it. If you know who owns it, perhaps they can snap some pics of it so when can all dream about what might have been? :grin:
Ask John Fritz. He had the 4 bolt main block Scott with great style bought and donated to the BPG. The intake got missing along the way from that one before John got it. Dennis Manner told me he had loaned that block to a former drag racer which is where I think John got it. I think it had an odd intake at one time but John or Dennis Manner would know.
I am going into the arcives to se if I have a picture of it. I seen it on a red 70 GS in the late 80's at BG.
You might be thinking of the tripower manifold (homemade from an Offy) that was on Ed McHam's red car when he won one of the bracket classes at the Nats about that time...
I'll have to dig up the photos but I ran into the guys that had that manifold at the nats probably 15 years ago. They sneaked several parts out of Buick including aluminum non-stage heads. They tried to swap the heads for stage 2's but no one would bite so the next year they showed up with the heads on the car. The carbs were smaller cfm as you would imagine. I'll have to find the pics, scan them (no digital back then) and email them to you. They had some funky small blue GS 455 emblems that they handed out, supposedly factory. I still have several.
Great news guys! I hope the pictures are found and that we can all enjoy them. Leo and Lance, if either of you are not acclimated to posting pics online, that's no problem. I will be happy to post them. If you can get them scanned I invite you to send them to me HERE. I am very much looking forward to them. Thanks, Mike Kamm
Dual quadrajet pics Mike, I emailed you those pics. I really need to get busy and scan some more and get them on my site. I've got them going all the way back to the first nats.
Too many years ago Unfortunately that was a lot of years (and cars) ago. I just remember they were a couple of really nice guys with lots of good stories.
I can remeber talking about these heads and intake with Jim Bell. Jim said there was all kinds of one off stuff that walked out the back door including this. He talked like there was more than one set of these heads and intake. Stage 1 heads with the exhaust ports milled off to try and see if they would work like Stage2's and all welded up. So to think these are it? Well alittle more time and maybe a all aluminn block will apear? I know we have met I can go back to the second GS nats. Great pics I am still looking, I was looking for the wrong car. The picture looks like a gold GS.
On the dual Q-jet manifold, how did they mount the carbs? Were they back-to-back, or did they use a ch*vy-style fuel inlet on the rear carb? What are the odds that an Offy dual quad intake could be opened up for Q-jets? Just curious... :Brow:
