NEW 49 MERC ENGINE

[Tom Kren]

Have a caddy air cleaner and want to use it on the new merc engine on the woody what intake manifold will fit this kit?

[Mark]

Best bet might be to rework a three-twos intake. The easiest to find one would be in the AMT '49 Ford; next easiest might be the Monogram '59 Cad. The AMT unit should be pretty easy to modify; just file off the carb mounting pads and add one for a single four-barrel. I can't think of a kit with a single four-barrel intake for the early Cad engine. Revell's engines always had custom setups, as did the couple of AMT kits with Cadillac mills (besides the '49 Ford, there's the '59 El Camino...but that one has a supercharger). Jo-Han monopolized the stock Cadillac kits, but they never did a decent engine for any of them. The de Ville kits had a simplified engine (intake and heads molded as one piece) while the FWD Eldorado kits all had Oldsmobile engines of a later generation.

[espo]

Another thought might be to look at the stock 2bbl. setup on the '50 Oldsmobile. I know it's supposed to be an Oldsmobile engine, but the Olds and Cadillac look very close and a lot of detail will he hidden by the air cleaner. Then use the 3-2's on the Olds.

[Art Anderson]

Best bet might be to rework a three-twos intake. The easiest to find one would be in the AMT '49 Ford; next easiest might be the Monogram '59 Cad. The AMT unit should be pretty easy to modify; just file off the carb mounting pads and add one for a single four-barrel. I can't think of a kit with a single four-barrel intake for the early Cad engine. Revell's engines always had custom setups, as did the couple of AMT kits with Cadillac mills (besides the '49 Ford, there's the '59 El Camino...but that one has a supercharger). Jo-Han monopolized the stock Cadillac kits, but they never did a decent engine for any of them. The de Ville kits had a simplified engine (intake and heads molded as one piece) while the FWD Eldorado kits all had Oldsmobile engines of a later generation.

Of course, there's always the Revell 1/25th scale '59 Eldorado kit, which has a tri-power setup, factory stock.

Art