Who likes something different? I've been hard at work!

Hey Ron - That is awesome - and it even runs better? Damn. Good Job. I'll have to wait and see it in April - tell Dalton I said to shut the F up! Ha.

 

Hey Ron, awesome job on your engine! You really made my work look good

Glad you like it

 

That's the look, defintley cool !!!!

 

That's one of the coolest things I've seen here in a while.

Not to be critical in the least bit, but have you considered a finned head?

I think they made one for that motor didn't they?

 

BloodyKnuckles, that's cool. Glad to see something other than a sbc. If you want to update the ignition, get a distributor out of an 83-85 S-10 V-6 with a carb, vacuum advance and a external coil. With about an hour's worth of machining it will drop in and presto, you have electronic ignition. You can wire up a typical style coil to retain the factory look. I did that in my roadster with a '37 dodge motor and it starts everytime. You get much hotter and consitent spark not to mention the stock plymouth advance curve is I think about 8 degrees where the S-10's advance curve goes to ~20-22 degrees.

Langdon's Stovebolt also makes a kit for around $150 with everything you need. They have a good website too.

 

Knuckles-

Look'n good, the tripple carbs centered over the head looks killer. If you wanted to spend the $$ you could have the intake/exhaust coated with HPC or one of the other ceramic coatings and it would match your carbs. It would run cooler too, maybe wouldn't need the heat tape on the exhaust for a cleaner look.

Here's a similar setup from the Langdon Stovebolt site, but I like yours much better with the carbs and log underneath.



I'm running the GM mini HEI on my '50 Ply, it's a Langdon verson for $180, and it's great. You can check it out at www.50plymouth.com along with the rest of my stuff.

I kinda like the smoothed stock head, looks mean.

Post a sound clip if you can, I'd love to hear it run...

pete

 

Nice work Knuckles. The intake and the work you've done looks nice.

I know the topic of this thread is your intake, but I just want to put up a potential red flag since it looks like you've done a similar setup to what I used to have. It has to do with your remote oil system. Seems you connected the flexible hose to the hard lines. I understand why you did this, vibrations. But it seems that 1) you used rubber fuel hose and 2) you clamped the rubber hose to the hard line using clamps.

Check the following pic:



Look kind of familiar? I did pretty much exactly the same setup you have there. 6 months later that softline popped off the hard line in the middle of an 8 mile long bridge. Completely tore up my motor and I had to rebuild again. Next time around I used Aeroquip fittings. At least try to set up some kind of compression fitting at each end. Time + heat + oil + vibration can take its toll on lots of designs.

Here's what I have now. Not cheap by any measure, but worth the peace of mind:



Enjoy your new setup!!!

Mike

 

Good point Mike, it's the last place you want to have a hose clamp fail. That and copper lines look cool but they are notorious for becoming brittle over time and failing. I'd think seriously about replacing the fuel lines too. You can fab hard lines out of steel just as easily as copper.

A cheaper option for the oil lines is to have flexible pressure lines made like these, from hydrolic hose and fittings. I had them made at my local NAPA store, I think they were about 10 bucks each. The can hardly be seen on my engine, so I wasn't concerned with the industrial look. They are rated way beyond the oil pressure in my engine.

Pete

 

$10 each? Sounds like a great solution. 6 ft. of Aeroquip line (3000psi rated) and the fittings were $120. I'll keep the Napa solution in my head for next time.

 

I like it. I like it alot.

Looks like you did what I wanted to do to my Straight 8. Same issue of having the intake/exhaust being one and the same. The heat form the exhaust seaps into the intake system - including the carb. Sucky design.

The tri carb set up looks bad ass. Here's a pat on the back *whack* Good job man....

 

nice clean set up. and if the carbs ever leak looks like the gas will just puddle up around the spark plugs...

 

cool set up, could this be early Ram Chargers

normal people scare me!

 

Gentleman,
Thanks again for the compliments, they are fuel!!
I will consider an upgrade to the oil lines in the near future. I totally understand your concern. I had the lines completely hard but then thought about engine to firewall movement and changed to the fuel hose. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
As for changing the copper lines to steel I probably won't because I like the different look. We'll see!

BloodyKnuckles

 

Pete;
The picture you posted is a right hand drive car. Where is this car located?


Knuckles;
Your maniflod looks awesome. Do your intake headers frost up in damp weather?
Don Coatney

 

Don,
I haven't had it happen yet but will keep my eye on it.

BloodyKnuckles

 

Don-

These pics are on the Langdon Stovebolt site in the "under the hood" section of inliners rides. The caption says it's in New Zealand, belongs to a fellow named Lawrence Fisher. Doesn't say what year the car is, but looks like maybe a '53 or '54.

Pete

 

Now thats hot rodding. Ingenuity and craftsmanship= speed and beauty. Awsome Job.

 

That thing is cool as hell!!!!