Hot Rods THE INDUCTION THREAD

Skot Ingram’s flathead rail, Skot is a longtime Texas rodder and also has the FE powered 5 window seen above.

 

Oooh that's cool...you still have the old setup?

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The crank pully must be tiny?...lota huff for a flatty!

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Thank you Dean for all the knowledge you bring to the thread .

 

Super thread, Mikey. 93 pages, 2700+ posts, with ZERO drama!
Here' M/T's twice blown Pontiac. Probably posted up before.

 

Maybe I'm full of it, but I think that there's some really really cool stuff goin' on here.

 

Yeah... I just can't wrap my head around on how the induction setup works on that one....

 

Those are WW II up draft tank carbs on the Vulcan's Vicky. Those were Joe Reath's brain storm. The chain drive without a guard is a real safe situation.

 

Right. I surely don't have any idea if this setup works well or not, but I'm thinking of the off the wall engineering that went into this. And would that chain be like a chainsaw if it broke at about 8,000 rpm. The intake "tubes" and the holes in the cowl are a work of art though.

 

And note that "front mounted" distributor or mag.

 

Front mounted Harmon &Collins mag. Much easier to access than under the cowl.

 

Some real workers..

 

This looks like a problem fixin to happen.

 

My old buddy Jack Gillis owned this one, the year was 1947. He built the car and blower setup, perhaps the first to run one on a flathead. He was 18 years old ! Here is the story. https://www.hotrod.com/articles/the-first-gmc-blown-roadster-jack-gillis/

 

Hell of a story Marty. He was a talented guy even at a young age.

 

Lets see what we can discover about these




Compound superchargers are nothing new LOL.

 

Here is a shot of Jack at 17 in 1946, hard to believe he is the car owner, not the driver. The guy driving was his mentor Clarence Smith. Jack is 89 now, and still very sharp !

 

Stuff I have laying around...

Dave

 

A few things I've seen....

Dave

 

The double blown olds in post 2786 was Todd Rawleighs innovation. For whatever reason he coined it
"hot beef special". This was about 1956 or 57 and claimed it dynoed at 700 on alcohol. At about this time
he sold the Olds and went to Chryslers. In about 59 he built a beautiful full bodied rail that slowly shed its panels for weight.

 

WOW!!!!!!!!

 

And do you know the nick name the full body earned Todd?

 

Jackson injector.
I’m not sure how streetable these were but Pete Jackson had one on his Falcon Ranchero DD shop truck.