Hot Rods WEIAND SUPERCHARGERS LOST TO THE AGES

The sun is setting on anything with a carburetor and distributor.

If you need some parts for your antiquated machine that has a carburetor, points distributor, manual choke, push button starter, manual transmission, 1 tail light, and no turn signals Holley is having a fire sale this Memorial Day weekend.

BBC aluminum chrome water pump $23.10
https://www.holley.com/products/clearance_parts/parts/7015G

Flathead headers stainless $111.29
https://www.holley.com/products/clearance_parts/parts/12702-7FLT

Flathead headers chrome $39.75
https://www.holley.com/products/exhaust/headers_and_exhaust_manifolds/all_headers/parts/12702-2FLT

BBC block hugger headers $53.62
https://www.holley.com/products/clearance_parts/parts/11701FLT

Hemi block huggers $90.56
https://www.holley.com/products/clearance_parts/parts/13700-1FLT

BBC lakester headers chrome $132.37
https://www.holley.com/products/clearance_parts/parts/11703-7FLT

There are supercharger pulleys, supercharger accessory drive pulleys for SBC/BBC and Hemi, aluminum radiators, and various other parts steeply discounted (too many to list). There is something like 246 pages of items.

Maybe you can find a cheap part you need before they are gone for good.



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Roots type blowers are still available so the world is not ending any time soon. Maybe the market is no longer big enough to have a bigger choice of parts suppliers but if only one survives be greatfull for that.

The range of performance parts STILL available for HAMB rods is still vast.

If anything it makes the surviving parts already in existance even more valuable and desirable when you are building a project. I treat looking for project parts like panning for gold at swap meets and auction sites.

 

...and isn't an interesting consideration that hot rodding was always about adapting the latest and fastest technology to our favorite body? Here we are trying to stop that tradition of innovation at 1965. We laugh at the billet , street rods , or street machines...yet, aren't they just the progeny of that hot rod spirit of the past?

 

Everyone blames the bean counters, the main goal of any business is to make cash . If you are not doing that your days are numbered.

 

The good news is maybe we can expect to see less of this stuff.

 

as far as I am concerned they are already = in my opinion

 

Just looked at the Holley sale pages and there are some extremely good prices on certain items..........other things not so much. I knew Holley was buying up other businesses, but when I saw the listing of the companies they apparently own, I have to say it causes some concern about them keeping all of these companies making anything but their higer volume sellers. I think we are going to see a lot of items become "no longer available" in the future. Hope I'm wrong!

• BRANDS
• ACCEL
• DiabloSport
• Holley iNTECH
• Racepak
• ADS Racing Shocks
• Dinan
• Holley RetroBright
• RaceQuip
• AEM
• Drake Muscle Cars
• Hooker
• Range Technology
• AEM EV
• Earl's
• Hooker BlackHeart
• REKUDO
• Amp'd
• Edge
• Hurst
• REV Wheels
• Anvil Off-Road
• Fender Gripper
• Lakewood
• Rocket Racing Wheels
• APR
• Flowmaster
• Legendary Wheels
• Scott Drake
• B&M
• Flowmonster
• Mallory
• Simpson Racing
• Baer Brakes
• Flowtech Exhaust
• Mr. Gasket
• Sniper
• Brawler
• Frostbite Cooling
• MSD
• SPAL Fans
• Bright Earth
• GearFX Driveline
• MSD Atomic
• Speartech
• Brothers Trucks
• Halibrand
• MSD DynaForce
• Stilo
• Carroll Shelby Wheels
• HANS
• NOS
• Street Fire
• CataClean
• Hays
• OG Innovations
• STS Turbo
• Classic Instruments
• Hilborn
• ProConnect
• Superchips
• Clearwater Lights
• HK Wheels
• Proforged
• Weiand
• Demon
• Holley
• Pulsar
• White Box
• Detroit Speed
• Holley Classic Trucks
• Quick Fuel Technology
• XDR
• DeWitts
• Holley EFI
• Quick Time
• ‌

 

If you're a flathead guy there are some screaming deals to be had. Quicktime bellhousings for under $200. Or how about a chrome FE oil pan for $20? But most of it seems to be Mustang bits....

 

Just ordered a bunch of stuff!

Thanks for the heads-up!

 

Huh, so because I don't build things with late model engines I'm no longer part of the hobby and it's passed me by ? I think not, I'm just not "trendy" enough now I suppose. Give me an early hemi over any ugly late model stuff. Holley has killed large amounts of products before they ever sold one.

 

What you, and people like you like to buy from Holley does not amount to enough sales volume to justify production of those items.

It is basic financial practice to eliminate poor selling items.

You don't need to like it, but I am not wrong.

Last time I checked, Holley is not a 503c non-profit organization, with the mission of serving an ever dwindling market for obscure parts.

In the past 10-years I have built exactly 3 Gen-1 Hemis (and one of those is mine). I have enough parts to build another 354, and am only short a good block for building another.

There have been no takers.

On the other hand, I have built 19 Coyotes, and 61 LS based engines

It is not a trend. The future arrived a while ago.

We're dinosaurs, and the asteroid already hit our world.

 

Darned FE pan is out of stock...

 

Sorry boys and girls, this is true, more then a lot of people want to admit.

 

What the hell? If we're all dinosaurs and going to be extinct, at least I'll be going out with a good bunch of guys and the world will be poorer for it! So there .

 

You should know as well as anyone that yesterday’s fantasy conspiracy theories quickly become today’s news and typically turn into facts in short order.

 

"I have become....comfortably numb" Pink Floyd

 

Except that they never do.

There is only Human nature, filtered through the lens of Capitalism.

It is never anything more than that.

Human nature will never change.

Capitalism is a relatively recent invention, but good luck changing it.

 

Tried to buy 2 new 660 center squirter carbs for a TR project yesterday. Discontinued!
Anybody got 2 for sale?

 

Ya know, I wanted a bit back, a GM performance crate shortblock.
Not made anymore.
Actually found out GM (via a Google post I read-take it for that) GM is only making LSx blocks now for crate engine purposes.
I have that type of engine in a Yukon out back, but I don’t want to spend the time and effort and $$ to run it in something old.
I like the simplicity (for me) to use a carburetor.
I’ve a early 70’s Ford 302 for my next project, recently purchased a discontinued Holley intake for it, by the time I buy a new carburetor, I’ll have more into the intake than a take off from a 5.0 would have run me. Probably won’t make as much power, get as good mileage, but I can live with that.
I know there are some on the HAMB that are here who were born in the EFI days, but for different reasons they like the pre EFI stuff. But like most here, they are a small minority of the market as a whole.
A few years back I bought a good used aftermarket market EFI setup for a BBC. It’s still in the box it shipped to me in.
Glad the discussion turned this way, reminds me to have my kid list it on EBay for me

 

I'll be using an EFI 4 port injection on top of my blown 398 1st gen hemi. Had to buy it lightly used on here because Holley bought Hilborn and killed it off. Now I guess EFI isn't modern enough to produce anymore, if the ECU takes a crap and they do, good luck getting a replacement.

 

Think about this...........As a group, many many of us thumb our noses at newer technology. Many pride themselves on all the nostalgic trophies they can locate for their also nostalgic vehicle. Where is the profit for Holley and the others when we are out buying things made 50 years ago and walking past their new products?
So why should they have any interest in making and stocking things that sit on a shelf and are our last choice? I know most of you don't want to hear that logic,
but we have to be honest with ourselves. Our way or the Highway.......and I think the bean counters are finding new horizons for parts sales are down the highway.
GM stopped making replacement blocks/heads/engines for the venerable small block Chevy..........the most dominant hot rod engine for the last 70 years. Time marches on whether we like it or not............

 

Glad I'm on either my second to last or last build. The fun has really gone out of it the last 3-5 years and the cost.

 

The simple answer is to get younger people involved with our hobby. Easier said than done I know. If the younger generation is not interested in what we do then perhaps we failed to demonstrate.

I put my nephew on the lathe and showed him how to turn scrap metal into something useful while possibly learning a trade. That’s the only answer as I see it.

 

Write that down on a piece of paper and pull it out and read it once in a while. My state recently imposed a $1,500 fine for all exhaust modifications on ANY car.

 

It won't hold up on court, unless it is directly related to sound and/or emissions regulations that were in-place at the time-of-manufacture.

 

To everything (burn, burn, burn)
there is a season. (burn,burn,burn)
And a time for every purpose, under Holley.
A time to build up, a time to break down
A time to race, a time to mourn
A time to cast away parts, a time to gather parts together

 

Ok, now write THAT down on a piece of paper……
I hope you are right.

 

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime

 

Well! Interesting comments. I guess I am the MAD MAX of old hot rodding. Wondering into the waste land and above all else , surviving. And yea, I have a blower, dog, and sawed off!