alain
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I fabbed them myself. I bought a bunch of 90 degree 304 SS bends and 2 lengths of SS pipe and by cutting the bends and welding it in place piece by piece, I got it pretty much exactly the way I wanted it the first time.
Here are some more pics of them. Had some probs with the welder when I was welding the flanges and the collectors on, so the welds are not quite as nice as I would have liked them to be. Luckily the engine bay is rather tight and you don't really see that any more now that the engine is in, lol.
The manifold is a Bill Laney(Max Wedge) for a 6-71, the blower is Dyer's. There's an adapter plate to let the 4-71 sit on the 6-71 intake, that piece was like $350 alone. More tire? Wouldn't that equal less tire smoke?
Did you put in a bigger radiator? That doesn't look like the original.. Thanks for the pics Fish, nice ride 8)
ok kool a real small block blower intake,,,,how did u find it??? the guys company name is max wedge???[ i may be intrested in one of those,,, the thermostat location is killer,,, its a big problem on these motors,,/COLOR]
i agree with you there on the thermostat location,that is just the way my manifold is built! helps alot with the height!
duster what type of intake do you have??? i curred my thermostat problem,,,i bought a new cast iron GM t stat housing,,had it surface milled it was warped bad right out of the box
then i had a guy machine the t stat housing to eccept the t stat in to the housing like a mopar t stat housing,,,there is another way, for any one intrested,,,,
sounds wild some one making an intake from scratch,,, some pics when you get them,,,,
just keep in mind you need to run a t stat to keep it cool,,,not sure what position your t stat is going to be in ?? im assuming a small block???
and depending on the space you have between the intake and blower will determine what you are able to do,, but you may want to take a look before its too late make sure theres enough room ...
if the t stat is in a stock position,, get your self a GM water neck,,it angles out the side not straight up like a mopar water neck,,,use the small t stat,,, and have the in take milled so the t stat sits down in the intake like a GM so you can use the GM water neck,,with no sealing problems,, if he can hand make an intake he can mill out for the t stat,,,
it sure is kind of wild but hopefully worth it, biggest reason for this is to keep it as low as possible, biggest problem even with the design chosen by me and the machinist is to be able to reach the bolts ataching the manifold to the heads, and there is not even an adaptorplate even with the kind of stupid boltarangement lysholm uses with the bolts only reachable from the bottom..
sure will get some pics im kind of excited about all this myself
yeah its a smallblock, thermostat will sit in the front of the manifold pointing forward kind of centered, the man doing all the machinework asked if i wanted him to make the thermostathousing aswell,i told him we will wait with that detail since im not sure how to route the top radiatorhose just yet, this thing is very flat for what it is and the blowers bottom sits just above the valvecover rails.
the whole package of parts is a mess to work around with the atachingbolts only reachable from the bottom and the outlet in the bottom front of the blower and it also uses a vacumoperated recirculation valve recirculating exesive boost into the back of the blower into what could be considered a plenum under the carb when the throtlesblades are closed.
the chanel in the back of the intakemanifolds plenum is where im thinking of putting a blow of valve, there just is no space anywhere else for this feature, i have asked and thought some about this and to be honest im not even sure there is a good point in using any kind of blow of since most backfires are at light throtle anyway and at light throtle the recirkulationvalve is open anyway aloving the backfire to exit thru the carb just like on a N/A engine,and at fullthrotle these superchargers have been known to have a bad habit blowing thru the valve venting thru the carb anyway, but this is not set in stone yet.
good pics! alot of people told me when i started this stupid project to just use a normal singleplane intakemanifold and an adaptoplate,well that just didnt work since the blowerhousings back want to occupy the same space as the distributor since the outlet is so far forward and it would have been alot to tall for my taste anyway,trying to keep all of this under a fairly low hoodscoop as to keep it semisthealty but not sure how that is going to work out anyway lol
will be streetdriven alot and i think this thing may make enough steam to blow my poor stockblock into pieces if im not carefull in keeping boost fairly low
Great looking engine, fish. Is that a PCV I see in the valve cover?
are you talking a 6.71 blower or ??? seems like a lot of trouble building an intake that is going to have problems getting to the bolts,,,a back fires dont always happen at light throttle,,the blow off valve can help from gernading a motor if you build to much pressure,,and if for soem reason your motor leans out under load it wil back fire like mad and blow that valve open,,,saving your blower and carbs from lift off,,ask me i know,,,,,,,pics when you get it sounds intresting