Technical Blower I.D.

darn....what about a military application.....?

 

Military is a possibility, really leaning towards industrial. It has steel rotors and steel bearing plates with an aluminum housing.

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Industrial is my guess because of the steel straight 2 lobe rotors. The original design was an air pump for mine shafts and things of that nature. Anything with rpm in mind for automotive uses could self destruct the steel rotors. It will be interesting to see if anybody knows what this is.

 

I agree about steel rotors being industrial, in fact Roots blowers in industrial applications are even used to move powders. Have at least the rotor to case clearances been checked?

 

we dumped a zillion dollars worth of starters, alternators, and generators into the bay in Puerto Rico. Literally two 5 ton dump trucks worth.

 

GM diesels 4-71 = 4 71 cdi cylinders
6-71 = 6 71 cdi cylinders
8-71 = 8 71 cdi cylinders
and so on

 

Just a little update, I still don't know what the blower is. But I am nearing in on finishing a manifold for it.

As soon as I got a race car, I never saw another hundred dollar bill.

 

Could have been a grain blower from the farm

 

I saw a clown blowing up kids balloons with one just like it the other day. Look under helium in https://clownsupplies.com/

 

Not a grain blower, they are huge. The 53 series GM blowers used bushings, not ball or roller bearings. I saw a blower about that size on an old highway tractor in a truck wrecker years ago, the guy said it was a Rolls Royce design. It was a 4 stroke engine.

 

I am now fairly positive, that this blower was originally fitted to a Turner diesel engine. These blowers were placed on everything from stationary industrial engines, to trucks and light trucks, including land rovers. I have yet to pinpoint the specific model, but the Turner blowers all share some of the same features, that are also found on my blower as well.

As soon as I got a race car, I never saw another hundred dollar bill.

 

How about a Waukesha "Cerlist" Engine blower? (yes, it was on the Turner page, but it's not a Turner engine)

http://thefcconnection.com/cerlist_diesel.htm

 

Very possible, that blower is nearly identical.

As soon as I got a race car, I never saw another hundred dollar bill.

 

I am feel pretty good that all my work well pay off now. The intake is ready to weld. Probably going to drag it to the starbird show with me this weekend, to show my buddies.




As soon as I got a race car, I never saw another hundred dollar bill.

 

Updates?

 

In the late 1990's we built an industrial test stand that used a cast iron industrial blower. It was nice to look at, but very heavy.

 

No more information on the blower, but I have finally gotten back to working on the pickup it is going on though.

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