My son has one on his Studebaker. He worked for a guy here that rebuilds them so his has some custom stuff in it. It makes the car fun fo a few seconds and then scary.
I bet! Looking at the size of that alternator compared to the supercharger I’d have to say it’s not much bigger than my jumbo alternator. Looks like he’s using a carb box to pressurize it all instead of building the carb to blow threw?
We used the Stude Lark setup and had a tough time getting it all under the hood of his '54 wagon. It is 4" shorter from the firewall to radiator than the coupes and a much lower hood than the Hawks. A supercharger build for a 250+" engine would do anything you'd want on or fours. I'll be running the smallest 12v generator I can fit on mine on the lower left side. That leaves quite a bit of room on the upper right with only the distributer to deal with. The carb box makes it easy. We only had to change the float and go full mechanical on the secondaries.
Loving where this is going Tim. I'd think bracing the MC and column is a must. Those will both see a lot of force in their use and the time they'd break is mid turn it during an emergency stop situation. Not a time I want to be worrying about their strength. Just my .02 Lastly the only way to find out how much boost she'll take is to turn it up and see. Haha I'd think you'd be just fine at 5# though.
@redzula it’ll get braces I’m just trying to decide how much overkill is going to happen. I’ll likely plate the firewall and brace that to the top of the dash - the dash rail propper is actually in front of the dash. Still a lot sit and stare left, but I’m thinking that the stock column support is close to as strong as it was stock with the cowl/tank cut where it is.
Thanks @Rocky I’m just picking away at it. I’m not in any real hurry. Think I’ll give it til April and then suck it up and start pounding the dented fender on the 46 straight. Been walking past It since September pretending it wasn’t driving me nuts. Coupes looking good, if I can’t make thendrags we’ll have to meet up when your cutting threw town one way or another
@redzula last fall I was hauling ass down the interstate and my fan cam apart and sent bits of it threw my radiator. We pulled it home with a friends car and a block from my house we went around a corner to tight for the rope we had and put his back bumper into the front of My passenger fender and pushed it all in. I’ve got the parts and hammers to fix it. I got the radiator fixed and a new fan, blew that one up by the end of my driveway, swapped that fan out for a completely different design and now it’s basically a car again. Just needs fluids and a fender un smushed
We'll get together one way or another. Get the 46 fixed [again] At least the bumper doesn't look like it did at your wedding
Well @porknbeaner chopped a big section out of a tie rod and burnt it back together for me today so I finally got to attach these dropped rod ends together pretty happy with how they mimic the drop in the axle, the tie rod ended up at 35 inches. Did a quick mock up of how I’m planing on running the pan hard bar with some heim joints and tube. Looking like I should be able to sneak it behind the splash apron. Super excited about being able to turn the wheels together after pushing it around with the wheels acting like the shopping cart with then bad caster at best. Hopefully in a couple weeks I’ll have the box/ column mounted and be able to actually steer it In tank news it still stinks, not a whole lot though. I smeared some baking soda around to try and soak up some of the stink. Should work well enough to move forward with mocking up. I think a lot of the stink is the fill tube under the cap and oddly enough the back of the dent that the instruments set i is just caked in stank. Both of those will get cut out in the future so I’m not to concerned about getting them clean right now.
@Tim looks great man. Quick question for ya, is that rod with the heim joints from my stash? That may be the piece of tubing I was looking for. LOL
Used some big magnets to hold a master to the firewall. They will actually mount to the upper firewall but I’ve been curious about hood clearance lately and I was standing there so... i clamped this hood side on that resembles bacon on and shoved the master over as far as I felt comfortable. I need to account for the downward slope of the hood top but I’m thinking the location I have in mind should clear just fine Man lots of room, @Austin kays and I shook our heads at what a mess it must be to shove a hemi in one of these. Won’t know till I’m further along but seems like I should clear my proposed carb location and be able to remove everything easily like I had invisioned
Sorting threw a new stack of “get them out of my way” magazines this morning I found this. Thought some of you may get a kick out of it.
Lots n lots of room, could almost have a party in there. Hey it that a 4 bolt master cylinder? I need two but I could sure use in for engine install on my old heap.
Nope 3 bolt. Looks like enough room for a blower to hang off the side to me? Maybe put a little air intake blister in the hood side?
Got the steering mocked up and some other little things. Threw the hood back on and remembered how poorly it fits lol Plan is to chop the stock column supported in half, drill and tap it and bolt the one on the column to it. May end up sliding the support up the steering column a little bit first Fancy mock up tools right? Lol whatever works. Need to get the column lock unlocked so I can check pitman arm to oil pan clearance before I go any further on that end of things.
@porknbeaner and I were talking about how I’m going to clean up the stock intake and use an offy adapter to run a big 97 and I realized that I do t think I’ve posted a photo of one of them. I’m not supper stoked on it raising the carb up that high but I figure I’ll get the dimensions and make a mock up out of wood to see what it looks like. I kinda like the idea of the carb sitting lower though it does seem like there make some advantage to the riser. Anyhow pictures
Great Progress! When I first built the 270 GMC for my pickup I only had the stock intake. I put one of those adapters on it with a GM two jet and it ran great.
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