Can anyone tell me the title of the post a couple years back for everyone to post their favorite engine pics...I've tried to search it every way I can figure but no luck Thanks
I bet this is the one you are looking for https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/lets-see-those-detailed-traditional-engines.252296/
And now Deep Thoughts, with Bandit Billy; Do you think someday people will be on the internet posting pictures of their traditional detailed electric motors?
One of the first if not THE first 671 superchargers on a SBC motor using the newest Isky-Gilmer belt drive and aluminum fittings. Our own build of a 671 supercharged 292 ci/SBC motor looked the same with our Isky-Gilmer kit, too, around the early months of 1960. Hello, 671 superchargers were the order of the day for big hemi motors and other motors. But, no one made a simple way to connect them together for the SBC motors. So, Ed Iskenderian was the first to come up with an aluminum, machined parts unit with a Gilmer toothed belt to connect all together. It was the nicest unit on the market. It was safer than the wild chain drives that were on the market, but people were leery of using those for fear of their lives on tune up days… The Isky-Gilmer Belt Drive and pulleys were a one package deal. Everything necessary to connect a big 671 supercharger to the SBC motor. An Edlebrock blower manifold was a part of the package. For the top induction, at the time, carburetors were the main source. So a flat Weiand manifold was available for all sorts of combinations. There were different sources of supercharging, but with fanbelt drives, there was too much slippage and the Isky-Gilmer drive belts offered the best solution to the problem. Jnaki The popular two port Hilborn Injectors were not out for the 671 on the SBC motor as yet. By the middle of the 1960 year into the 1961 era, they became the go to addition to the SBC motor set up, regardless of what was driving the motors. Not the most "streetable" set up with the two port injectors, but acceptable for ruling in the Gas Coupe/Sedan Classes and Street Roadster classes. Still street legal in a sense, if one could get the injectors to work like carburetors at the time. They were acceptable to the rules for the gas coupe and sedan classes. We were able to get one of the first Isky-Gilmer Belt Drive set ups and Edlebrock manifold for our last 283 to 292 c.i. SBC blower spec build for our 1940 Willys Coupe. It ran a 12.60 E.T. for us. Close to the national record of 12.40 for the C/Gas class. Alas, we were not able to continue our run to the Nationals as we encountered a massive problem. That changed the direction of our teenage lives and my brother did recover somewhat and moved on with his life. We could have used the completed motor in other new builds, but the trauma was hard to overcome. A 671 SBC in the black 58 Impala would have been imposing... or even in my 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery surf mobile... that would have certainly turned some heads...
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