Slant Six Forum :: F.I.S.H. carb?

Ah, yes, the fish carburetor. Subject of the "Amazing 300mpg carburetor!" books you used to be able to order via classified ads in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine. It worked so well that Big Oil, Inc. bought up the rights and shelved it. Within six months of this, the inventor and his whole family disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again. If I wuz you, I'd keep quiet about it. Otherwise Big Oil's goons might come around to, er, neutralize ya!

Hey dan, do you have any more info on this great looking device? have you ever lay hands on one or drive tested it?

Looks kinda like a miniature Predator.

I ran one on mine before I switch over to the fuel injection. It was pretty cool, defintely good on gas and GREAT on power. I mean it was insane that it felt like a 2 barrell and turned into a six pack like that!
It was even cooler when it froze up...

Author:	Slant Cecil [ Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:15 pm ]
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Who knows anything about a F.I.S.H. carb. If they work, it may be a nice slant 6 street carb. http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... m=32909308 Cecil

Author:	emsvitil [ Sun Jun 12, 2005 3:36 pm ]
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Looks like someone made it in metal shop.......................

Author:	Rust collector [ Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:30 pm ]
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http://www.fireballroberts.com/Fish_Story.htm

Author:	SlantSixDan [ Sun Jun 12, 2005 4:40 pm ]
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Ah, yes, the fish carburetor. Subject of the "Amazing 300mpg carburetor!" books you used to be able to order via classified ads in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine. It worked so well that Big Oil, Inc. bought up the rights and shelved it. Within six months of this, the inventor and his whole family disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again. If I wuz you, I'd keep quiet about it. Otherwise Big Oil's goons might come around to, er, neutralize ya!

Author:	slantzilla [ Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:25 pm ]
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Looks kinda like a miniature Predator.

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Author:	argentina-slantsixer [ Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:07 pm ]
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Quote: Ah, yes, the fish carburetor. Subject of the "Amazing 300mpg carburetor!" books you used to be able to order via classified ads in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine. It worked so well that Big Oil, Inc. bought up the rights and shelved it. Within six months of this, the inventor and his whole family disappeared without a trace, never to be heard from again. If I wuz you, I'd keep quiet about it. Otherwise Big Oil's goons might come around to, er, neutralize ya! Hey dan, do you have any more info on this great looking device? have you ever lay hands on one or drive tested it?

Author:	GTS225 [ Mon Jun 13, 2005 5:41 pm ]
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Quote: Hey dan, do you have any more info on this great looking device? have you ever lay hands on one or drive tested it? ************************************************************* Argentine!!! Man....you gotta do as Dan said!! He used to be one of those "Big Oil Goons" !! Roger

Author:	SlantSixDan [ Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:06 pm ]
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Quote: Hey dan, do you have any more info on this great looking device? have you ever lay hands on one or drive tested it? SHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Who wants to know?

Author:	pharmboy [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:56 am ]
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Quote: Looks kinda like a miniature Predator. Very well said, zilla. That's exactly what the fish carburetor is. It works entirely by venturi action...just like the predator, only smaller. I stumbled across a website where a guy's reproducing the Fish carb with a 2" throat, and he's charing $850 each for them...I find that shocking.

Author:	robertob [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:02 pm ]
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I remember reading Dave Vizard books from the early 80s and he went off on a Fish carb tangent. Actually the variable venturi thing is on solid theoretical footing, but i think it was the weird marketing more than anything else that killed it... Wait, did we just respond to a 3-year-old thread??

Author:	pharmboy [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:19 pm ]
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Yeah...that'd be my fault...somehow I got connected with some conspiracy website about the 300mpg carburetor, the pogue carburetor, and the later Fish carb. And I figured I'd look it up on here and see if anyone had anything to say about it. Just fun...so yeah, I revived a three year old thread.

Author:	CARS [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:27 pm ]
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I'm glad you dug this up. The link to the site was great. Full of fun NASCAR stuff.

Author:	runvs_826 [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:05 pm ]
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I ran one on mine before I switch over to the fuel injection. It was pretty cool, defintely good on gas and GREAT on power. I mean it was insane that it felt like a 2 barrell and turned into a six pack like that! It was even cooler when it froze up...

Author:	Joshie225 [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:27 pm ]
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Huh? What did you run? What turned into a 6-pack? The 6-pack froze? Quote: I ran one on mine before I switch over to the fuel injection. It was pretty cool, defintely good on gas and GREAT on power. I mean it was insane that it felt like a 2 barrell and turned into a six pack like that! It was even cooler when it froze up...

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Author:	runvs_826 [ Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:29 pm ]
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No it just could really run lean or dump the fuel. It was a real interesting idea, the only downfall was the carb would freeze up. My old man had it laying around he had bought it for a 400 ford truck a while back to improve the mileage. He said he got a good improvement and it never lacked power.