History Reath Automotive Chain Driver Blower

Found an old Reath Catalog for there chain drive blower, will scan and post more soon. Anybody got one of these ?

 

that thing scares the hell out of me

cool find

 

first blower car i worked on had one--around 1963---never ate anyone or any fingers---we were harder to scare back then

 

I remember a front engine Jack Christman car ran one. Also recall the oiler drip with a big puddle on the ground

 

Here is one a friend of mine ran on a SBC with a home made intake.

 

Really cool information, thanks for sharing.

-Eric Carter

 

In the mid to late 50's there were only two choices for driving a blower. A Potvin crank driven set up, or a chain drive top mounted blower. Tom Beatty used multiple V belts for a while, and sold pulleys to make a V belt drive. Then Gilmer toothed belts showed up, and became the standard. The best chain drive was sold by Howard Johansen. The chai was fully enclosed ina two piece aluminum case that replaced the engines front cover, and the blower snout, and ran in an oil bath.

Here's Gene Mooneyham's home built chain drive. He soon switched to a Gilmer belt set up by Delta Machine.

 

Here is a shot of an enclosed Howard drive.

 

You find the coolest stuff! Thanks for posting that.