I like the way the Potvin style blower has the dry sump pump drive it! Someone put some serious thought into that! Doc.
well where'd you find the pic? looks like a mock up to me. no hardware anywhere. and omg is that efi i see?!? i can already here the "that's not traditional" police firing up their squad cars...
A guy we all call flathead in Spokane built it he fabricated all the parts to adapt the blower and made the intake himself. Really cool engine, he also has a really******in' model a coupe thats early sixties race style with blue windows, and I think it has a olds in it. brent
From the looks of it it is a fantasy piece. There is a display placard on a stand in front of it which says "Speedy Bill's Museum" to me. The City of Burbank engine is the "Moller-Adams" OHV Hemi engine conversion which was bought in California by the owner of Specialized Auto Parts in Houston TX in the late 60s, sold to an employee who moved to Okmulgee, OK in the late 70s and presumably sold to Speedy Bill in the 80s/90s.
Thanks Brent do you know where I could find more pics of it? I am contemplating making my own potvin stye mount and found this one real interesting
Um, wasn't the Adams-Moller engine put together by C-T automotive for the Bob Ests Mercury streamliner?
well i guess if its somehow a different one on display i'm wrong although it looks exactly like the one flathead built I'll ask around and see if any of my friends have any photos, he kind of does his own thing so we'll see brent
He's on the hamb. His signature is the atomic symbol for Mercury. I can't remember what that is though. ( little help here from some science majors?) If you can't find , it PM me, I know him. He buiilt it for a T coupe Bonneville project that is side tracked
Brent, you don't know*****! His A sedan has an FE in it. This is my Good friend Shaun's (HGflathead). I took that picture and may have some more. He fab'd and machined everything for it. It is in mock up right now, but will run soon. Yes it has a dry sump and will be EFI. Going to records with this*****er.
Yes, Bill had the Moller-Adams engine in the mid 80's when I worked for him. I tried to get him to let us use it in the Swamp Rat 33 streamliner we built for Garlits in '88, but he was not going to risk it. We used a couple of Dave Thomssen's flatheads and one of his Arduns to set 4 records in 4 different classes and put 3 drivers into the 200 MPH Club. We actually went faster with Dave's Ardun than the Moller-Adams went by about 2 mph. Sweet satification for all the Ardun owners around the world.
I used to go down to C-T Strokers, at Lankershim and Sherman Way in N. Hollywood, when I was a kid, stare at that engine and buy a decal or a T shirt whenever I had extra lawn mowing money.
the symbol for mercury is Hg. thats a wild distributor, how does it make contact with 2 wires at once?? ive seen the dual distributor setups before, but thats the first time ive seen a 16 wire distributor.
through deductive reasoning (the mention of 'records') i presume that this is going to be a lsr venture but i could be and probably am very wrong. just for the sake of discussing something interesting, all the classes this combo can run in at bonneville have records over 200 mph with one being over 300 mph.
huh, so the blower runs the same speed as the cam?? wouldn't that be a little underdriven at 1/2 crank speed?? Potvin's were 1:1 with the crank..... way off topic, but wouldn't a newer eaton blower work reallllly well in one of these applications?? you could mount the carb right to the supercharger without having to fab 2 90 degree manifolds frontier m60 something supercharger: cobra m112:
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