About 10 years ago I started building a 1915 T full fender coupe. I put it in storage at my sons place in southern Indiana in 2000 when we moved to northern Michigan. It is powered by a 57 Chrysler 354 hemi and a 471 blower with ( 4 ) 2-barrel carbs. The blower has the old ( 5 ) "V"-belt drive. This has a Chevy automatic transmission, power brakes and power steering. The blower manifold is home made out of 2 inch ID aluminum tube with 5/16 inch wall thickness. I picked up the old blower pulleys and the belt tension arm at a swap meet. The blower drive "snout" is made out of a rear axle housing from a garden tractor. The engine has a Chevy water pump adapted to it. The water inlet, crossover tube and thermostat housing are all home made. The frame is all home built out of 2X3 boxed steel tube. The wheels are 15 inch Kelsy Hays. The rear rims have been widened to 10 inch. My son sent some photos up so I could post them. They are a little dark so you're going to have to look close to see the car.
You stored "that" in 2000? That's 9 years ago. Find some builds here with the search box. Then get excited & get it on the road. You've done so much work, finish it. Good Luck. Lucky667
<style></style>The problem with that is my son lives about 500 miles from me! All the parts for the model T are packed up in boxes and packing crates. There is nothing worse than getting deep in a project and realizing the parts you're looking for are a 10-hour drive from you and inside one of a dozen crates that are all sealed and stacked up on top of each other. My wife will retire in 2-more years and we are going to move down by our son. Then I can dig everything out and get back to work on it. Meanwhile, I have been busy with managing and remodeling some apartments, remodeling an old farm house, rebuilding a small barn and fixing up a garage for me to work in. Summertime I also spend a lot of time showing my 2-crawlers at antique tractor shows We finely sold the apartments but I haven't had time or the space to work on anything until last winter. Last winter I built up a 1956 BSA motorcycle with a sidecar and I also redid a 1949 Agricat garden crawler. This winter, I'm building up the model T pickup and next winter I need to redo my 59 Chevy truck as it got hit in the right front ( if I can get the parts all scrounged up ). The year after that, we will be packing up selling the house and moving down by my son. So everything is going according to plan.
Yea, you definitely need to do something with that. Pretty cool. I really dig the staggered carbs on top of the blower.
Yep .. about 4 inch. I just kind of like the overall looks of a shorter cab. Now I have to figure out how to make inside metal trim for those side windows. Im not positive, but I think that carb manifold for the top of the blower is an old Offenhouser unit. I picked it up about 30 years ago.
Well that blower is cool. I recently picked up a Hemi, and I wouldn't mind having that blower/carb set up for it. Although, I must admit that I'm really keen on the Elco 6 log carb set up.
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