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I expect that gluing the screen gasket to the top of the blower would be part of the plan!

 

typo, thanks

 

Here is the two port setup on our dragster... Four Bolts on the blower and a single fuel line to barrel valve.

May not have the "look"..

 

^^^^^ Jim, clarify port for me. I understood early in this post you didn't want it. In your defense, I took it to be at the base of the intake runner just before the head/heads. That's why I posted that style injection on the FED.

 

yes, that's what I meant by port nozzles.

 

Cool. 61cad's set up sure would be a lot easier.

 

that's pretty much what I have in mind, but using a hat instead of a vertical port setup.

 

Now your toying with me.

 

Scott Slot has a very low profile...

 

Just seen this pic on instagram posted by hot rod magazine thought it was kool

 

A safety consideration... When you are driving on the street, you’d store the injector setup in the car somewhere. You can’t empty it of fuel completely. Somehow you have to make sure the storage spot is ventilated so you’re not going to be inhaling gas fumes all the time, or worse yet it becomes a fire hazard.

 

That is something I have thought about.

 

I saw that picture tonight, too....sure is nice to have real photographers taking pics of my car for me!

 

Two pots were early 60s injectors. It would look out of place on a a/fx car. By 65 they were obsolete. The hilborn horizontal and upright four ports along with the enderle bug catcher were the preferred choices.

 

I bet if I dug my old 1966/7 Hot Rod Magazines out of the back of the garage I would find grainy pictures which look an awful lot like Jim's 'Cuda

 

With enough playing around you can make a mechanical Injected car run just as smooth down the highway as a carberated car. My coupe runs really good on the street. I never even prime it to start it. I dont use the fuel shutoff to lean it out going down the road. I would drive that car anywhere. I have thought about putting a adjust a jet on it because I have went to car shows early in the morning when its cool then later in the afternoon when i leave and its hot out it runs rich. With the adjust a jet you can lean it out or richen it up on the fly. I run a hilborn 4 port on it.

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Out of curiosity what kind of mileage do you get? Jim has a fair amount of driving from strip to strip during Drag Week.

 

small teardrop trailer

 

no trailer for me.

 

I was told that a screen in a 6-71 cost 50 hp, never ran one on any race engine.

 

https://www.pelican-case.com/1430.html

 

I wouldn't think that a screen would have to be very fine mesh to stop the ingestion of tools and hardware.

 

You already have a trailer - or did you sell it?

 

I read a magazine article long ago, an interview with one of the famous mag builders. He said he'd been hearing for years that the resistance to rotation of a mag would cost 50 horsepower at high RPM. Said he didn't think it was quite that hard to turn them since he'd had thousands of them on his test bench over the past 20 something years and it was powered by a 1/4 horse electric motor.

Not intending to offend anyone, but being told something and having it be a fact are often not the same thing.

 

I run a screen on my car. It's a gasket with a screen between two gaskets. I'm alway surprised at the end of the year how many rocks were prevented from going down into the blower. The screen has about 1/8th inch holes. I won't run without one.

 

i have a trailer to haul a car on. I wont pull one on Drag Week with the race car.

 

Roof rack.


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The guy that told me, is one of the best engine builders I know, he has an inertia dyno he built 40 years ago. He has done lots of testing on 500 inch and bigger blown alcohol engines, and he knows his excrement! BTW, I would run a screen on the street, but not on the track.

 

Put a receiver hitch on the Cuda and get or build one of those carry shelves that fit in the socket. You could even build a small box to keep road grime out of the fuel parts. The shelf wouldn't have to be as large as those you see on SUV's all the time, it could be half that size and hold most everything. Get to the track, pull the pin and set the shelf off, get ready to go, pin it back on. Easy peasy. and no trailers involved......

 

no hitch receiver on this car, sorry guys.