keep or sell original single barrel intake

klumppm1 said
I have accumulated all the parts that I need to do the same thing to my 65 Valiant (probably this coming weekend), and was debating the same thing (store the parts, or sell). I think I will keep the parts to go with the car if I sell it some day... I'm curious. What did you use for a carb, and what set up did you use for the throttle and kick down?

I found a NEW carb that is actually the proper one for a super. I looked for import markings and all that crap that would tell me where it was from but couldn't find anything. It looks like a NOS carb! I had my doubts about its functioning but it fired right up and has worked great ever since. It did however, have little idle mixture limiting things on it but but that was it. So I can't say for sure exactly where the carb is from. I paid $125 with free shipping a year ago or so.
The kickdown linkage was a pain to deal with! I got hold of 2 of them that are for a super. I had to make one about an inch longer for it work. laying on the driveway trying to adjust it was terrible...very hard to get to. The original from my car was not gonna work. Where it goes onto the trans was turned the wrong way. The little nub that connects to the kickdown lever needed to face downward. My original did not.
I had lots of trouble with vacuum leakes too! I ended up taking both the intake and exhaust manifolds to the machine shop to have them faced or surface as a unit where they mate to the head. The machinist who I've been going to for some 40 years doesn't like the think gaskets! he thinks they encourage warping...and I can see why. Make sure everything is perfectly flat and straight and us Felpro. It's a long project so be prepared to spend some hours fooling around with stuff!