Hot Rods Let's see your homemade speed equipment

Not much in the way of hot rod / speed parts for Studebaker engines.
So...I came up with my own.

A "Renegade" replacement for the early 80's Corvette Crossfire manifold, modified to fit the Stude 259 / 289 engine.

Lot's of cutting and hacking to remove all of the Chevy parts.




Mike

 

I think it's 1/4"... I'd have to check. It's the same thickness as the Hedman 3-2-1 on the other side.

The flange is a copy of the Hedman so they look related.

 

On the car-

 

Hey, Brent;
That 2nd pic answered 1 Q. So, are these 4-2-1's, or 4-2's w/dual-"scavengers" running out each side for the 4-pipe look? Flange to keep header/exhaust system easy/do-able, or why?
TIA.
Marcus...

 

Do I see Buick brake drums on there?

 

Hello,

In our high school metal shop, I was already getting an “A” grade for the required projects made and graded. So, I had plenty of time to do special projects. One of the first projects was a milling project using a block of aluminum I got from the Douglas Aircraft Surplus Yard near the Long Beach Airport. This is the place most hot rodders knew that had raw custom products and materials for sale at a super low cost. A lot of it came off of the assembly line as mistakes, and were replaced with a new panel or such things.

So, spending a Saturday morning wandering around the yard can bring up gobs of cool stuff to use for our own hot rod projects or builds. I had bought a couple of sheets of aluminum for door panels for our 40 Willys. My brother bought a little thicker smaller panels for our custom instrument panel we thought we were going to inset in the dash with three gauges. So, we had fun picking out just the right stuff.

But, for my hot rod project, I wanted to surprise my friend with the 57 Chevy Bel Air that had just installed a three carb manifold and carbs on his 283 motor. He had a funky fuel block with lines running to the carbs. I wanted to make a custom aluminum version I had seen at Reath Automotive and surprise him for his birthday.

I did not have the money to spend on the 3 outlet, commercial aluminum block version at Reath Automotive, so, I could make it at our high school metal shop for a grade. The classroom had the machines, I had to go get a chunk of aluminum.

Starting off with a plain old block of aluminum, I was able to scrape off a fairly rough design on the shaped piece. Then, a drill to put a long hole inside of the tall block. Finally, smaller holes to allow threaded hose ends to be installed. The final detailing was to round off various ends of the sharp edge/corners of the block. Finally, drilling holes in the corners of the finished gas hose inlet/outlet for mounting.

Jnaki

My friend had this block with a smile on his face when I gave it to him. We installed it in his engine compartment and connected the three hoses to the home made aluminum block.
But, his penchant for more power and speed led him to sell the three carb manifold complete and trade his stock 4 barrel +manifold sitting on his garage workbench to another friend who did not like his dual quad carb set up. So, we did all of the changeover and now, he had the only 57 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop sedan in our So Cal area with a dual quad set up. Now, it was almost perfect. The ported polished heads + dual quads made the 57 very fast.

The present did what it was made for and was a happy surprise. His parents liked that I did not spend any money (other than that small block of aluminum) on just buying a gas inlet/outlet block. It lasted several months until the dual quad set up fell into place. Easy come, easy go… YRMV

 

Michigan Safety Racing, the use the 39-48 Ford backing plates.

 

Hi, does the replacement coil come into contact with the sides of the finned canister, or is there an air gap? Just asking because I was looking at doing something similar, but the coil I have would have an air gap around it, but I thought the idea was that the coil was in contact with the finned canister to allow heat to dissipate, so I discarded the idea.

 

There's a lot of nice well built stuff on here, not sure these stack up to those, but here's my long 'equal' length tri Y's for the 348 in my 40 Sedan. Took way to long to make, no idea if they'll help at all, but they're done, and i'm not doing them again!