Can some one help Identify this blower? Bought it at swap meet for $20.00 If nothing else It makes a good wall hanger.
It's an Eaton, but its not from a 3.8 V6 GM. Unless they changed them completely from what I have. I see theres a bar code tag on near the snout. Try googling that number or searching it on the Magnuson site. This is my 3.8 from a '98 Grand Prix GTP
Eaton M62 off the 3800.. Got mine for 100 bucks and threw a rebuild on it....running a weber sidedraft.
as ramzoom just posted a M62. this is the later version compared to EVOLVOs '98 version. both are good units. these are nice efficient units, don't produce much heat unless you really crank up the boost pressure. If you want more of that 'blower whine' you can fill the oval holes on each side of the v-shaped outlet. Of course limit heat to a minimum as not to distort your casing and loose you rotor to case tolerance. Holes are jsut to make them quieter for late model people...nothing to do with flow. As seen these can be run with carb, many have done it with original bearings, but as well if you are overhauling it, you can specify gasoline safe seals. Most common problem is the snout coupler which you can get rebuild kits al over the place, search 'eaton coupler' on ebay and you'll get a bazillion hits. I have an eaton off a Jag XJR going on my 270 GMC for my 53 truck with injection, still on the running stand in fabrication stage. Can be made to look more oldshool with some time in the milling machine and thought .
i was just wondering the same thing myself. seems like if you could do some alum. welding and mill work you could make a sweet IE- flathead blower; and even make it look old with some clever grinding sanding, some add on casted parts you made, and a sandblaster to hide all the work you did. i mean carbs on top btw.
I'd like to see one of those with a big SU on the back of it. But what's the little butterfly on the underside? What happens there on a carb set-up?
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