What carburators go a P15 besides Carter?

[47heaven]

What other brands are out there that I can put on it? Mine is shot and unrepairable. (hairline crack).

[james curl]

You can still buy new Carter YF carburators at swap meets, they are replacement and standard equipment on Willis and some early Chevrolet cars. I have a pair on my 48 Plymouth and am very happy with them. I am considering taking the 390 cfm 4 barrel off of my 235 Chev six and replacing it with a pair of the Carters.

[oldmopar]

It's not hard to find a correct replacement for you carb them are at swap meets and ebay. You should be able to find one for 10-20 then get a rebuild kit around $35-40.

The P15 used a D6G1 but a D6H1, D6H2 should also work

[claybill]

DONT THROW THAT OLD ONE AWAY ! keep it for parts, you will need. easy to get another D6 carter carb.....might even fire up after a cleaning...both of mine did.

claybill

[Norm's Coupe]

Darin, I would go with a new one too. However, as the others mentioned don't toss the old one out. If you don't want it, either give it to someone, sell it here or sell it on ebay for a couple of bucks. Even if part of it is cracked someone may be able to use the other parts on it, or in it.

No matter how much you feel an old part of any kind is useless, never throw it out. Someone can usually fix it.

[JerryinTx]

Darin, my P15 came with a Stromberg BXUV-1.

[47heaven]

DONT THROW THAT OLD ONE AWAY ! keep it for parts, you will need. easy to get another D6 carter carb.....might even fire up after a cleaning...both of mine did.

claybill

No, I would never throw it out. I still hae the P26 block and trans that went to it, but I am getting ready to offer them on here. I'm going to stop by the mechanic's on Monday and take pics of all the stuff I have left over from the rebuild.

This Carter carb I have has been rebuilt recently. Something keeps happening with the float that causes the gas to leak out of the bowl when the engine is off. I had the guy who fixed it try to do something with the float, but he says it's just old and thee's only so much more he can do with it. It's also causing bad performance and probably leading to bad gas mileage, which isn't good at $3.35 a gallon right now.

[Normspeed]

Darin, I'll PM you. James, on the YFs is the accelerator linkage layout and bottom flange basically the same? A bolt in?

[james curl]

Yes, see my post "Hot August Nights and Bonneville". Pete "Blue Skies" Anderson posted some pictures of my car under that thread, one being the carburators and throttle linkage. Just do a search for the title of the thread and the pictures are about half way through the thread.

[YukonJack]

Yes, see my post "Hot August Nights and Bonneville". Pete "Blue Skies" Anderson posted some pictures of my car under that thread, one being the carburators and throttle linkage. Just do a search for the title of the thread and the pictures are about half way through the thread.

Hey James, where did you get the carb spacers from?

[james curl]

I got them from the Truck Shop in Orange Calif. Ph 1-800-243-8947 Cat. Nov 2006 page 62, part no. 53-08309 53-59 Chev 6 cyl 235 @ $6.50 each. George Asche recommended that I raise my Carburetors about 1" to increase the low end torque. The Fenton manifold is a low rise high rpm manifold and by raising the carburetors it becomes more of a low rpm manifold.

[Frank Elder]

What effect would the spacer have on a stock manifold, good or bad? Besides raising it one inch higher in the air Don. Linkage bind? Air cleaner clearance?

[Normspeed]

Folks, if anyone has one of these stuck to an old manifold or carb, give me a shout. I'd sure like to get one more. It's 1/8" thick and came off a 53 Plymouth stock intake manifold.

[aero3113]

Norm, Rock auto has carb mounting gaskets for $1.53

www.rockauto.com

[Normspeed]

It's not quite a gasket, more of a fiber spacer.

[james curl]

Normspeed, The Truck Shop in Orange Ca. has them. I ordered a pair for my 55 chevy pick up which will use the same carburetors as my Plymouth. They are called Carburetor Insulator Gaskets. The part number is 53-08311 on page 62 of their November 2006 cat. Their phone number is 1-800-243-8947 and their email is www.truckandcarshop.com. I paid $4.00 each plus shipping. They have both the narrow and wide base gaskets under differeent part numbers. I have a pair of NOS Carter YH narrow base carbs which I slotted to put on a wide base manifold.

[greg g]

you can get and adapter and put a 2bbl carter webber on it. You can use basically any single barel carb, that will fit the mounting studs and will hook up to you linkage, or adapt linkage to it. The 54 and on used a BBR ( or maybe BBS) they were a bit lower as hood lines were coming down but mounted to the same manifold.

If you want to get a little more adventurous, you could try to find an SU side draft like of a Jaguar, and make up an adapter to mount the carb to your stock manifold. these are neat looking and have several adjustments to allow them to be tailored to your engine.

[Normspeed]

James, thanks for that info.

I see this thread started about a year ago. If I remember right, Darin switched to another modern carb, possible a Holley or a different Carter. The car ran ok but the carb had a removable fuel bowl that tended to leak. Then he picked up a really nice rebuilt Carter B&B and we installed it several months ago.

[james curl]

Was the removable bowl glass? Some Ford I/6 engines used Holley carbs with glass bowls and some were cast metal bowls. They were very short carburetors, I have been trying to find a matched pair reasonable priced.

[brian hood]

I dont know how hard this would be, but I was comparing a carb from a slant 6 to the carb from my flat 6. It looked like with a few minor mods. it would bolt on to my flat six manifold. Has any one done this?

[wallytoo]

the YF's that james noted also were stock on early/mid-70's amc 232/258's. replaced the one in my cj with a weber k550-14.

[Frank Elder]

Does it help or hinder to add a 1 inch spacer to a STOCK intake manifold, are there hood clearance issues, will the stock linkage bind. Part 2, same questions.

[Niel Hoback]

I think the air cleaner bracket would be the only problem. You might have to adjust the length of the throttle rod, but it would be minor.

[Fireball]

Holley 1910 model out of 225cid slant six would work

[Normspeed]

Darin's had a metal bowl. Very thin casting. Not sure what it was designed for, a different shop installed it.

Frankie, the hood clearance becomes more of a problem with the later models with lower hoods, but if you use aftermarket ait filters there should be lots of room.

Was the removable bowl glass? Some Ford I/6 engines used Holley carbs with glass bowls and some were cast metal bowls. They were very short carburetors, I have been trying to find a matched pair reasonable priced.