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has anyone here made anything for there engine from things that they had kicking around?
I made a plywood adaptor for my carb, and know of a few other people that have used wood for intake of some sort. anyone want to share what they've done?

I recently built a dual carb intake for my 181 Mercruiser engine from square tubing and short pieces of exhaust pipe. I welded a piece of angle iron underneath for a water passage, to provide heat from engine coolant. Works like a champ!

sounds great Dennis, thats the kind of thing i like to hear. Keep on modding!

I was driving cross county back in my ramen noodle days (flat broke) and blew the 194 (that's another story) in my 1964 Chevy P.U. Found a very cheap 230 at a JY with burnt valves and was going to stick it in and try to limp the remaining 1500 miles home. Lucky me, it was only a bad head gasket. However, the block had a different mount for clutch linkage so I had to engineer, with a BFH, a mount out of the sheet metal base of a jack. Worked fine and made it home.

Granville King used to write a Gus's Garage type column for one of the 4x4 mags. One issue he wrote about being broke down in Mexico and having to carve a piston out of wood. Claimed it lasted for quite a while. As he was kind of a mechanical guru a lot of folks believed him, but he finally fessed up.

I supposed it would be hijacking your post to tell you about the time I put a drop-out third member in upside down. The result was one forward and 4 reverse gears.

I built a 3x4 tunnel Ram intake out of sheet metal for my 64 SS chevy2 with a 250 Which is in the power manual. I'm also starting to build another one of the same But only a little thicker this time Hoping to add a Turbo at a later date. I also build my own headers. And I make other things as well now, who knows what mite be next
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Sweet guys, thats great. has anyone made a custom intake for a head with an integral log? That'll be my project for the summer so any advice would be great thanks.

Offy makes an "adapter intake" for 3 1bbl carbs. Even comes with progressive linkage, I think. I believe you have to mill off the top portion of the intake runner. You would need to pull the head to do this. Another possibility might be to find someone who is real good at welding cast iron, and have a couple of carb mounts added to the ends of the intake for tripower. Would still need to pull the head.

Thanks gearhead I'll check out the adapter.

Well i searched the web for an Offy adapter and all i could find were intakes for V8s or regular bolt on style for the six, nothing that would work.

does anyone know of a site that has this specific intake. any help is appreciated.

And please dont stop posting your custom made articles cause they're great for ideas.

Clifford shows it in there old catalog, not sure if they still carry it or not.

I built the intake for my slantsix with a 471 blower on it. Also fabricated the headers for the same motor.
Fixing to do the same thing for my 66 Valiant drag car so I can do some inline racing on the 1/4 and 1/8 mile.

I dont remember seeing it in the new catalogue but i'll check again.

Slant six thats awesome that u made your own headers, ive thought about it and my buds think i'm nuts, but it cant be all that hard, just a lot of time. Some inlane racing would be cool. hope to see your car posted when its done.

thetrueslayer, my roadster is posted in the rides page as I was building it. I'm thinking about sending Jack some pictures now that I have it on the road so he can add them to this site.
It only took me about two weeks to build the headers and that was after work. You are right, it takes a lot of time, but I think it's worth it.

ok Slantsix just to varify how to do it all i gotta do is get a solid metal plate and trace tha gasket design on to it, cut it out, bolt it on and cut and weld pipes to work with it, is that close or do u have a different method?

Is that '32 roadster yours, cause thats pretty cool. If it is yours where did u get the exhaust manifold parts cause i havent seen anything like that before.

Yes you have it right!
Use the exhaust manifold gasket as a pattern, cut it out or have it machined out, bolt it up and start attaching your tubes for the headers and run them where you need to or where you want.
The 34 roadster is mine--Robert's blown slant.
You said something about exhaust manifolds? The intake manifold is the one that I built. No one makes a blower intake for a slant, so I built it myself.

Building headers isn't all that hard if you know how to cut & weld But yes it does take some time. It only took a few days for me to build mine.}[oooooo]

Thanks guys that should be a fun project. anything i have to keep in mind while doing this, ie: best way to connect the pipes ( 6-2-1, etc..)

for the chevy L6 they buildem as 123/456 Or you can build like some have in the past and maybe still do and that's all 12 into One.

Yeah measure Twice cut once Tack the pipes Test fit. Once you have them the way you want them Then weldem Up. AND For a Equal lenght Set you want to be as close to 1in as you can get. You don't need a 1 3/4 pipes/(tubes) for the street
1 1/2 - 1 5/8 is pretty much the standered for the street. What motor are you building?
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Im building up a 250 I6. 1" pipe seems small considering that i have 2" pipe stock, or does being a header make up for the lack of flow so a bigger pipe isnt necessary. build it like a regular header then, 123/456. I have thought of running 3 pipes to either side of the car (so a pipe per cylinder) for a cool look but 6 mufflers seems pricy unless i just go dual and custom up fancy tail pipes. I will need to run a cat and muffler so u sure 1" pipe will be fine?

As far as for headers go I wouldn't go less then 1 1/2. Other wise you're going to end up with to much back pressure esp. with the Cat and muffler.
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Thanks that sound better.

hey, this is just the thread i'm looking for!

i have a 250, and i'm working on making a dual 2 intake. any suggestions?? yes..i want to make it. i enjoy the custom aspect of all this. headers are on the way also...

keep it up guys! this is the way performance was meant to be...the guys in the 50's did it ok with fabricating everything theirselves...why not follow suit??

but yea..thanx again.

SamWise

does the head have an integral log...by dual 2 intake are u talking about making the intake with 2 carbs...if so and u have an integral (not unboltable) intake then sure i can give u some advice as i have seen some heads which have been done like that...

Slayer, yes, its an integral log intake. it has a 1 bbl on it now..but i REALLY would like atleast a 2 barrel, if not dual 2's. i love the look on pples faces when i say its a 6. lol

but yea, i'm planning on making headers, but thanx to your previous posts, there aren;'t any Q's! thank you!

well, i await your reply with great excitement. lol

SamWise

all right...either way u gotta shave the top of the head completely flat...probably get a shop to do this cause u'll regret it if its not flat...make sure u leave some meat on the head so u can tap and bolt an aluminum block to it...basically all u gotta do after its been milled flat is cut an aluminum block to size with the head, and is about 1/4" thick...its fairly lengthy to explain so i'll direct u to my website...u may find some other interesting stuff as well...but most importantly check out the link called 'inline fever'...go through his stuff cause he has some homemade things which are quite neat...i assumne u know where the link to my site is on the thread...otherewise just type in:

www.geocities.com/davevandrunen/index.html

Samwise: did u manage to check it out??? does it still interest you???

yea, thanx slayer. i checked out in-line fever. his adapters really interest me..along with the ram air. i'm thinking about trying some of that...and the different tests of carb set-ups really helped. strill can't decide if i want to run 2x1 or a stright 2 tho...haha

thanx again, SamWise

Making headers,I started making the flanges today and am thinking about round tube for square hole!How does this work,weld them outside or out? what about the two that are very close together? Will be hard to get them welded.Just need to know.

samwise: i suppose the deciding factor would be ease of installation...2x1 would need a bit of work to setup and get linkages setup as well as tuning them in sync...the single 2BBL carb would pretty much be a quick bolt on, maybe modding up the throttle linkage...i think that the 2x1 would be the best way for performance and efficiency cause with the carb in the middle the end chambers get a leaner mixture of gas...if u run 2 carbs and set them up at the 2nd and 5th intake then u will get an even mixture between all the cylinders..hope this helps u decide....

Ron: u will be fine using the round tubing ( i'm guessing around 2 1/2"??) weld them outside, but if u want and can clean it up nice on the inside, do both cause that'll just mean its stronger...the 2 that are close together may be a bugger to weld with a mig welder, but a stick should get in there fairly easy...just as long as there's no exhaust leak u should be fine...

thanx slayer! thats just bit of info i needed to help decide! do you know if its difficult to link rochesters? because i have a few extra ones.

well, i'll keep you up-dated. its JUST about to run...lol.

thanx again, SamWise

SamWise,There are commercially available linkages
such as those Tom Langdon sells for $30-35 or you can make it something like RAN429 did with
ball joints and allthread if you want.Check his post.

if u can get premade linkages for tha price i would say its worth it cause the time and hassle u may encounter with making your own might be discouraging...and thats the last thing u want...although i would still check out RAN429s post, like CatDog said...but i still think buying proper linkages would be best...Rotchesters should work very nice...cant wait to hear more about your progress on it though...

well, i'm about to start with the marking and planning of the 2x1 set-up...as soon as i get it to start. lol. i was counting my chickens before they hatched to put it one way... the gas tank was rusted, so the gas was just awful...and now the lines are plugged, adn the carb prolly has a bunch of gunk in it. o well. have to get on it.

headers are planned too...have obtained some pipe, and i beleive some base steel. see how that goes.

keep the posts coming guys! its great to hear about innovations and such...

SamWise

If you look at the way headers are built You will see that they are welded at the Head area and Mainly Tack welded on the oppsite of the flange This way you have a nice flat area for the gasket to seal. This/That is where I weld all my Headers . Hope this helps }[oooooo]

- 3 X 2 RACE MANIFOLDS AND LINKAGES
- OIL PANS AND PICK UPS
- HEADERS - 6-INTO-ONE AND 3-INTO-2
- VALVE COVERS
- RIGHT ANGLE MAGNETO DRIVES
- TALL VALVE COVERS
- 3 X 1 STREET MANIFOLDS
- CUSTOM THERMOSTAT HOUSING / WATER OUTLETS
- FRONT END ACCESSORY DRIVE
- WINDAGE TRAYS
- WATER PUMP AND FUEL PUMP BLOCK OFF PLATES
- LOTS OF LITTLE JUNK YOU CAN'T BUY

I am currently building a exhaust manifold for a 32' Chrysler "6"-268cid. It will be built out of tubing but in a "log" style because of the intake manifold design. I will show some progress pics if someone will tell me how to download them to the "B"Board---Thanks,Paul

well i made a PCV gas condensator and a hydrogen system for my car....the condensator works awesome...it takes the oil and crap comming from the PCV valve and cracks the oil into fuel and leaves the nasty chunkies at the bottom of the container then the clean fuel goes into the engine...also i get way better mileage...about double if i go by the last test...the hydrogen thing is still in experimental stage...i basically take a jar of water and set up electrolosis to it and create hydrogen gas which gets sucked out of the tube and into the condensator and then into the manifold producing way cleaner emmisions...way higher gas mileage and a cleaner engine...i have only been able to run the hydrogen for a day befor it gets all crappy but i think thats cause i use tap water instead of distilled water which i will try soon....but when all this is done i wont have to worry about the gas prices cause i will be getting the same mileage as a newer car...hahhaha...so yea...thats what ive been up to lately...plus i will soon be making a custom hood scoop for the car and maybe some other stuff....hope it turns out all right....my website has info on the PCV condensator and pics...but has not been updated since i built the hydrogen thing...but plans are also on the site...

keep on inventing cause thats the true spirit of an inliner...