b&m hydro on eplay

wish i lived i oregon

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...Track=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:middle:us

 

It's really cool except there was no starter in the picture or in the description. It's too involved to describe the different combinations of starters that might have been used to fit. I hope he did have the starter, for without it, it is just a real heavy doorstop. Back in the old timey days, you could get hydro adapters for anything, provided you had lots of money. I wanted to put a B&M in my $75, 6 inch choppped, 5 window Deuce. The B&M was $450, but you got everything to make the change-over, including a tricked out starter. Well, I settled for a home-grown Chevy hydro at $150, except the stock hydro starter was somewhat of a problem. I eventually built an adapter to run a '53 Chrysler 6 volt starter to a '67 block mount SB Chevy. For 37 years, it's never been a problem. But, if I ever sold my sbc/Hydro combo without the starter I adapted, it would be obvious that it had a starter, but nothing would fit it (without an adapter). Where would you start? I would certainly think that B&M built a number of kits for the popular engines, but there is no record of how the adapters were made, or what stock parts are used, and if they were modified. Witout this information, where would you start, short of machining an adapter or machining a drive-in housing out of steel (I've done both)? When B&M quit building Hydros, they quit-quit. Everything Hydro was eliminated. They won't even talk Hydros. It's a thing in the past and there it will stay. Unless you get everything that came with a B&M, it's just a conversation piece, unless you know from experience what the parts are. I was given a 54 Olds slant pan with a B&M bellhousing adapter for a sb Chevy because the guy was stumped on what he needed to install the Hydro. It used Chevy V8 pickup Hydro parts including the '55 thru '62 starter ( they were a bellhousing mount). It's possible the ebay B&M used a flywheel and stock starter used on the lincoln Hydros, and that's where I would start.

 

**** i missed it, i need one for my hemi, and as for the starter and adapting it to a hemi, No Prob, i'm good with a Lathe, bridgeport and run a waterjet for a Living

 

well I'm in Oregon and have a brand new never installed B&M Hydro with a stock chevrolet bell housing. my friend from California bought it in the early 60's for $500 never used it and wouldn't sell it. he gave it to me for my 55th birthday (a long time ago) I also have a 55 cad 331 and hydro with 120,000 original miles and a 54 lincoln with the same hydro as the 55 cad.
I have no plans to sell the B&M (you'll have to wait for my estate sale haha) I would gladly trade the Chev set up for a Hemi to hydro set up.

 

Adapter sure looks like it use's a stock early FE 3 bolt ford starter to me.

But its gone now so no big deal