FINALLY finished my 4-53 GM blower project. I attached it to my 1953 Mercury flathead. I used my vintage Burns dual car manifold, and made an adaptor plate. I used a piece of 1/4 inch aluminum with the holes for the duel carbs. Drilled, then place the blower bottom opening over the two ports. I drilled the 4 holes and bolted it down with gasket. I then purchased a small block chevy snout for a 4-71 Blower and coupling. To bolt to the front gear the holes had to be machined to line up with the holes in the gear. Next the housing to cover the gears and make up the space was machined out of a solid block of aluminum. I then took the blower to a local machine shop and installed hight speed sealed bearing. Made a back cover out of Aluminum for looks only. Had a pulley made for a single belt to line everything up with the water pumps. Next was the big project, the intake manifold. I used 2 1953 corvette carter side draft carbs. I finished it last week and it runs GREAT!! Total cost at the machine shop using my manifold was about $1800.00. The carbs were another 600.00. I'm going to try an attach a couple of pictures, but not being too computer savy. OK for the life of me I can't attach any pictures, keeps telling me I'm missing "security tokens", but I did manage to download them to an album, so you can see it if you go to the album section, it's titled 4-53 blower.
Hi, It`s a bulldog on the cap. The blower runs great. I took it on a 40 mile run,and the only problem was the vent on the front drive. I changed it to a more restrictive cap and it worked fine. Thanks, Harold
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