I recently went to an auction and picked up this SCoT Blower. It doesn't seem to have the same tag on it like most of them do, just the distributor tag? The guy who had the stuff was into both big trucks and old cars, so it is possible that this came off of a garbage truck or whatever they were originally intended for. The intake was broken, but the rotors don't look too bad, but I haven't taken it all apart yet. I'm not sure if I want to go through it and run it on my 34 coupe, or if it will become a display piece in my garage. I guess it will depend on how much it will cost to go through it. One of the drive gears is kind of rusty, so a new one will have to be sourced (made) if I intend to run it. I found the Street Rodder article on rebuilding them from the 70's that has the bearing parts numbers in it. I noticed that when I put it on my car there wasn't any clearance on the water outlets of the early style heads, but I have seen other cars running early heads and the water outlets aren't hitting the blower case. I believe this SCoT is a 4000, are others running smaller blowers? Anyhow any info and rebuild info would be welcomed. Yes, I did a search and most of the posts were 5-10 years old. Might as well bring it back up for discussion.
Aaron - Ron SanGiovanni is a fountain of knowledge regarding running S.Co.T. (and Italmeccanica) blowers on flatheads. Checkout this recent this video shot a Ron's shop ... discussion of Matt @IronTrap Murray's rare Italmeccanica blower starts at the 19:25 mark:
Ron's wife Laura is running a Scot blown early engine with Harrell heads in her red 32-5 window featured in the video. Check it out.
H&H Flatheads sell repop SCOTs and may have more specifics as it acquired the rights? Here's another article, https://www.hotrod.com/articles/0706sr-h-and-h-flatheads/
Thanks for the Video! Great info. I guess they just crammed the hoses on the Harrell heads and they rub on the blower case. I guess it isn't moving, so I suppose it wouldn't hurt anything.
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