Recent content by bohica2xo

The shunt is 360 brass. Less conductive than copper. .035 thick, .490 wide, and .890 active length. I started wider and reduced the width for calibration. Ohm's law for parallel resistors will get you very close. The OEM ammeter is not terribly precise, I measured 3 different ones...

Kendall Super D3 still has 1450ppm of Zinc http://us-packaging.com/eng/wp-content/uploads/Kendall-Super-D-3-Diesel-Engine-Oil-Multigrade-eng.pdf .

Nice work on the manifolds. A couple of questions Have you looked at the 53010188 manifold for the passenger side? While you are out harvesting manifolds, do you ever find any of these (the top one): Thanks for helping us keep this hobby alive! B

Not enough information on the build. How much boost? What static compression? Which ignition system? .

As a friend said, "The only things that kill cars in CA are collisions & the EPA" The L-1000 is fairly rare, and apparently complete. Hope the right guy finds it. If I only had more space here... How about a decent D500 to round out the collection...

Just had to share this with the members here: http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/hvo/4530647572.html A D400 Truck, with a Slant Six. And only 3k miles on it. Heck of thing to do to that little six. But it gets better. Dodge, well ahead of the pack built their COE truck with an...

OP's question was about belt drive centrifugal compressor vs exhaust drive centrifugal compressor. The answer is not much. Both take time to spool. If you overdrive the crap out of a belt drive & use a blow off if will make boost earlier - just like a turbo with a waste gate .

Nice progress Glenn. Jimmyray: Those two Martin systems are survivors for sure. The one on the wood table was a truck system, and is missing the suction side elbow from the upper intake to the compressor inlet. The second system is actually a Corvette unit. The suction elbow was a...

Thanks Scrappy! Here is the advertising for the martin system as I designed it in 1978: And a pic of one of the later production kits - I found this one for sale on e-bay a couple of years ago: Kind of fun to see them still in the market 30 years later. The system works...

Exhaust manifolds Dorman 674-270 & 674-271 Mopar 53010187 & 53010188 .

The photo is in front of Don Garlits Museum in Ocala FL. The car was outside to fire it up a couple of years ago. I believe the engine is a 392. B.

Not a problem with your fabrication skills. Nothing says vintage drag car like a tachometer on the back end of a Hemi... B.

Got a tach drive on that magneto? I have a NIB Stewart Warner 5" mechanical tachometer that really belongs on a beast like that... B.

Nice work Bakerlite. Nice to see the old Martin system come back to use. It was always a smooth system on the street. The RHD thing did throw me for a minute though. B.

Do not reduce the flow through the bypass. The bypass keeps the flow volume up in the cooling system, and reduces the thermal cycling stresses. Chrysler engineers got this part right, and they were kind of anal about cooling systems. The LA engine had two different water pumps based on...