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I'll start off that I think this is cool as ***** even if it's 100% just for show. But can anyone justify spending $1500 for essentially an air filter cover? If it were $500, I could totally see myself getting it.
http://www.alsblowers.com/streetinduction.html
I'm thinking of trying to make one myself/help of a machine shop for significantly cheaper. If I'm successful, would anyone be interested?
Right up there with the fake 6-71s that fit over the carb. The term "poser" comes to mind...
Havent found a fake one that does that. If it's cheap, I don't mind -different strokes kinda thing. I just can't see spending that much when it's almost the same price for FI.
Havent found a fake one that does that. If it's cheap, I don't mind -different strokes kinda thing. I just can't see spending that much when it's almost the same price for FI.
These were popular in the 1970s. Skim through any of the Car Craft Street Freaks issues from that period. At the time, it involved taking a real 6-71 housing, machining out the inside for sufficient volume, and adapting it over a carb intake with a fake drive belt. Alternately, there were versions where the empty 6-71 housing had tubes put into it like a tunnel ram and the carb went on top.
What if I made it into a functioning air breather with velocity stacks? Suck the air in through the pipes, through a filter, and then down into the carb?
What if I made it into a functioning air breather with velocity stacks? Suck the air in through the pipes, through a filter, and then down into the carb?
To do what? The whole point of using stacks like that is that they are tuned to the proper length to maximize volumetric efficiency at the desired RPM range. That only works if the entire inlet tract (from stack opening to the intake valve) is considered in the tuning. Simply running tubes into the air horn of a carb is worthless - possibly even less than worthless if flow disruptions cause the carb to meter incorrectly.
To do what? The whole point of using stacks like that is that they are tuned to the proper length to maximize volumetric efficiency at the desired RPM range. That only works if the entire inlet tract (from stack opening to the intake valve) is considered in the tuning. Simply running tubes into the air horn of a carb is worthless - possibly even less than worthless if flow disruptions cause the carb to meter incorrectly.
Would it not be similar to just having a somewhat functioning air scoop? You're drawing in cooler air from outside the engine bay down into the carb. Not saying it would be as efficient as a proper velocity stack setup like it's trying to imitate, but surely it would draw in more air than say a stock style air box.
The turbulence that comes from that setup will outweigh any performance benefit of a cold air intake. And let's be honest here. The center of the hood is a LOW pressure area. You actually hurt flow by having the inlet there. There's a reason why Olds used scoops under the front bumper or at the very front of the hood. Most musclecar-era scoops are also less than worthless. You're grasping at straws here to justify a really bogus piece. The only people it will impress are the ones who weren't worth the effort in the first place. What I can't believe is that Don Garlits put his name on it.
The turbulence that comes from that setup will outweigh any performance benefit of a cold air intake. And let's be honest here. The center of the hood is a LOW pressure area. You actually hurt flow by having the inlet there. There's a reason why Olds used scoops under the front bumper or at the very front of the hood. Most musclecar-era scoops are also less than worthless. You're grasping at straws here to justify a really bogus piece. The only people it will impress are the ones who weren't worth the effort in the first place. What I can't believe is that Don Garlits put his name on it.
Not not really grasping at straws here, just thinking about making an interesting dress-up piece for significantly cheaper.
Coastie, if you like the look go for it! We all have differing tastes and ideas. It kinda goes along with the old style gasser look!
Oh I plan on it lol. Joe actually saved me a lot of time and effort with those pics be sent. Unfortunately the ones with the vertical stacks are pretty much discontinued, but I was able to get dimensions and a good idea of the design from the maker.
UPDATE: I found one (pic) for sale on facebook for $200! Which is a major save because the manufacturer only has 2 left with super short stacks for $450. Especially after I spent a week working with a machine shop designing a less fancy one and getting quoted $1300!
Was? Are you implying that the fun stops here?
hy not go all the way and get a phony supercharger. I had to live through the days when girls in junior high would wear falsies and Disco Ducks would hit the dance floor, wearing fake sausages in their shorts
This is the ultimate app that will transform your ordinary 4 cylinder car in to a Bigblock V8, Drag FX is a real time RPM gauge that also plays music & your V8 Sound...
That would be a great gag worth buying, just for the sound effects. Not installing the decorative hood ornament, speakers could get mounted somewhere in the fenderwells, where spectators couldn't see where the sound's coming from. Installing one in some tiny Rice-Burner would turn heads in town, from urban stoplights. Catch it all on video, you could get Youtube to pay for the gadget, just in royalties.
What you don't want is to choose a Toyota Prius or any other vehicle using a CVT transmission, though
Are you implying that the fun stops here?
