You know, I am looking at that and thinking... that took a lot of work to go backwards.
Though... I would liek to see it on a dyno to see what it would do as far as power band and all.
Its dumb, but a interesting idea at the same time. Poorly executed to get a long tube manifold for a carb. If they could block it off to where the air would only get into the ports and not fill the plenum they might have had something. I would think that it would create so much turbulance in the plenum area that it wouldn't work at all.
Maybe I put too much thought into it and should just laugh and say that is the worse dump the fuel injection and put a carb on it I have ever seen.