A friend showed us this at breakfast this morning.It bolts to a four barrel manifold,or at least the bottom appears to.It says "dragster" on the round part.Anyone ever seen anything like this?
I think it is only part of an unusual blower system for a flat head. I've only seen pictures of one. The blower was under the large circle on the right IIRC
Yea that or a Turbo setup. They used to run 'em that blew air through the intake and you ****ed your fuel from another part. That way you didn't have to make blow through carbs and lost the turbo-lag that you have with the carb on the inflow side of the turbo. you could maybe make it work with a paxton ot wiffle type blower and the proper plumbing. Does any of of that make sense?
I think Tommy's right...it looks like a top inlet for an early McCulloch blower built from the late '30s to about '53. I think (as opposed to knowing) that it wasn't a McCulloch piece itself, but from a different aftermarket company.
Thanks,underneath the two bolt holes in the back is a standard 4 hole 4 bbl looking arangement.The block off plate on the circle part had me thinkin supercharger also.Josh (97 Heaven?)from Chicago had a similar setup in an old coupe I used to see at James Dean/Ducktail.
Looks like a Treco "Dragster 500" http://books.google.com/books?id=cuEDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=Treco+electric+supercharger&source=bl&ots=SwW40coQ-n&sig=qIfMDtYSg633i-M35s0TFj5CNEo&hl=en&ei=q9aiS4nPEY_-sgOO65jPAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CA8Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Treco%20electric%20supercharger&f=false P.S. Don't believe the performance claims -- they're B.S. Only a dope would think a stock Ford starter motor would produce enough boost to do what they claimed.
Not true! I have one of those eBay electric blower kits on my Honda and the power is pure awesomeness. Revhead, I think all the Frenzels were vertically mounted, though the same thought crossed my mind too.
I can't read the copy but IIRC there is a trap door inside that lets the carbs flow straight through to the intake with out going through the turbine. When the starter motor (the picture that I saw sure looked like a starter motor with heavy cables) is turned on the pressure closes a flap and the mixture gets drawn through the turbine and is pressurized. I doubt that it worked very well because I've never seen any actually running on a car like The McCullochs and the others. This has nothing to do with the above supercharger but... It's interesting to me to see the similarity in the graphics of the cars in competing company's advertising brochures.
Search oberhousen or some of my old posts. A friend has one and it is driven by a starter motor. we bolted his on his 32 tudor for detroit. It looks cool but does not look like it would work well. Clark
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