Re: [Amc-list] Water line in six cyl. intake (was: Engine for sale)

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have an original 1966 American with the 199 six and the water heated intake manifold.  I think 1966 was the first year for smog rules affecting the cars in CA.  My car has air pump system.  I thought the water heated manifold might have been used to reduce the choke "on" time and improve fuel vaporization for smog reasons. Maybe AMC thought they needed that to get a smog certification, but I really don't know what the testing rules were back then.  The 232 from 1966 would have been had with either the Holley single barrel or the Carter 2-bbl but I don't know if either or both cars had the heated manifold.  

Joe Fulton


--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Water line in six cyl. intake (was: Engine for sale)
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 5:26 PM
> Frank Swygert wrote:
> > all the Holley 1909 1V carb 195.6 engines got the
> water line. The
> > Carter WCD 2V carb didn't have it, and I don't
> think the other 1V
> > carbs had it either. Don't know about the 199/232
> for sure, but I'm
> > pretty sure none of them have a water heated intake,
> not when the
> > intake and exhaust are bolted together anyway. Could
> be wrong...
> 
> I wonder what the reason/logic is? It's
> new-at-introduction, so there 
> were two manifolds out in the market on nearly identical
> motors (199 vs. 
> 232). Perceived market-use? Was some big fleet (telephone
> companies, 
> etc) demanding some sort of cold-weather thing with the
> 199, so AMC just 
> did it across the board? Or is it some sort of
> left-hand-lugnut silliness?
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