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 :(
