best way to mount a hw 5200 pointing forward?

[Anonymous]

Right. I already have my holley/weber 5200 setup and running decently. My next project is to hook up a cable throttle linkage kit and pedal I bought from Lokar.

I went to the junkyard and picked up a cable mount bracket that fits over the top of the valve cover, but I'm going to have to modify it somehow to make it jive with my carb for two reasons:

(1) the carb linkage runs parallel with the engine, just like the stock autolite 1100.

(2) I want to position the carb 90* so that the float bowl faces forward, as it should ideally sit. I'm tired of the car dying when I take left turns.

I should point out that I have a 1962 Falcon with a 1967 200/6. My intake is just the (US) standard log.

Does anyone have theirs mounted float forward?

 

[jamyers]

Hmm...if the 5200/DFAV float bowl is forward, the carb throttle lever should then be on the backside of the carb, aimed more-or-less at the Ford throttle cable bracket. If it's on the front, then you don't have a 5200/DFAV, you've got a Weber DGV (mirror image of a 5200/DFAV).

Should be a straightforward deal...you have any pics?

 

[JackFish]

This is what I plan to do as well. I think I will try using the EGR spacer that's already on my Fairmont to orient the carb correctly. Eventually I'll get around to it. :roll: I've got the Stovebolt adapter.

 

[Anonymous]

.. which is what I'm secretly looking for, hoping others already do. I have Langon's stovebolt 2bl to 1bl adapter on the log, but I drilled it out to make the carb sit properly.

you're right, though. I do want the linkage to sit in back, perpendicular to the engine. Just by dry-fitting it tonight I see that the crossover-linkage part will place the cable about four inches behind where the linkage ought to be if I'm able to mount the carb 90*.

I'm going to order another stovebolt adapter and cut it up so I still have this one if something goes awry. But I don't like the way a hogged-out adapter fits to the log. It fits okay, but I don't like the sloppy nature of it.

 

[JackFish]

Here's the spacer. It should be easy for someone with the tools and skill to make an adapter plate that would work.

 

[powerband]

HEre's the setup for my ;61 Comet with LAngdon's adapter and 5200 with the stock '71 MAverick cable, and "modified " AF.

Powerband