Good news for all our chrome Stromberg 97 customers. The full TwoStep linkage range is now available with chromed die-cast levers and polished stainless steel. Designed specifically for use with multiple Stromberg 97 carburetors, the TwoStep range of direct and progressive kits covers all of the commonly available 2×2 and 3×2 intake manifolds – principally for flathead Ford, small block Chevy and Ford, plus various other vintage OHV V8 engines. Chrome linkages for 4×2 and 6×2 applications are also available to order.
The new chrome range perfectly complements our popular chrome Stromberg 97 carburetor (9510A-CHR), and chrome fuel delivery parts. With our show chrome models now accounting for a significant percentage of carburetor sales, customers were naturally asking about matching linkages. So we’re particularly pleased that we can offer real show quality chrome and polished stainless pieces….and at very competitive prices.
Designed and manufactured exclusively by us here at Stromberg Carburetor, the TwoStep linkage range combines clean, traditional looks with maximum leverage and huge versatility. All kits come pre-assembled and install in just two simple steps, without the need for extended throttle shafts. Here are just a few of the features and benefits:
Direct linkages available with swivels or rod ends – opposite threaded for easy adjustment.
Versatile progressive linkages allow you to choose when the secondary carburetors open.
Every kit includes two Stromberg ‘Snapback’TM throttle return springs. Wrapped around the linkage end of the throttle shaft, these chemically blacked, stainless steel torsion springs snap the carburetors shut, yet virtually disappear from view.
Every Stromberg TwoStep linkage kit comes with full instructions, and further help with selection, installation and tuning is available at the Stromberg Tech Center at www.stromberg-97.com.
You’ll find all of our linkages, regular and chrome, on the Stromberg website. Click the link to check them out.
We’ve been thinking lately about how we can extend the Stromberg 97 choice a little. If we wore suits here, I guess we’d call it thinking outside the box. Imagineering. You get the idea. Anyway, somewhat predictably for a bunch of hot rodders, we got as far as black and chrome. You can tell we missed the 60’s. Flushed with success we’re now talking about pushing the boat out a little further. Maybe Dove Grey and chrome? Who knows. One of our number, clearly not singing from the same old fart hymn sheet, called for metalflake. Seems we’ve started something here.
We’re going to let the pictures speak for themselves here, as once you’ve seen this set-up, there’s not much else to add. Before our trip to the Lone Star Roundup earlier in the year we emailed a lot with Steve Wertheimer who, along with a bunch of cool cars, cool bikes, cool house, cool garage, cool music clubs – you get the picture – also happens to head up the Roundup. Steve mentioned his new digger and the miserable old 94s he had on that awesome Norm Jones-built Desoto Firedome Hemi and to cut a long story short, fedex delivered six new chrome 97 carbs, plus a new chrome Stromberg 6×2 direct linkage, just before the event. Steve had top local polisher Wade ‘Buffy’ Monson (512 903-1996) polish the whole damn intake manifold and we installed the carburetors when we got out there.
A few years back, we were looking for old pics for our website of cool Stromberg-equipped cars from back in the day. A great contact in California sent us this awesome COLOUR picture of a channelled ’32 roadster at the 1961 Oakland Roadster Show. We had no idea who took it (though I now hear it was Andy Southard), but I thought it was the coolest thing ever – it says everything about what Stromberg means to millions of hot rodders the world over. But the blue colour balance didn’t work for the website and it never made the cut. Then just recently we nearly used it again for our ad in the forthcoming Jalopy Journal book. Note, I said, ‘nearly’…
