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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
WJ,
This is the blue / white configuration. Notice the rear wheel openings are moved up.
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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
Not 100% certain, but I have always heard that Ralph Ridgeway's car had the first "working" tunnel ram intake. I remember that his '55 won a lot, back then. That intake manifold could be part of the reason...
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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
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I would say this was the first successful one though: http://www.hotrod.com/featuredvehicl.../photo_02.html Also the Pontiac SD 421/405 used a form of common plenum manifold. http://media.photobucket.com/image/S...tachment-2.jpg Ridgeway's car was about the only C/MP at Indy in the mid 60's that wasn't using a crossram at that time, and he was always the fastest, using inline carbs. Notice how the SS/AH cars are getting more and more that way . LOL
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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
After the win @ '65 Indy Nats, Ralph marketed a high-rise box-like intake called "The Ridgerunner Ram" w/ two inline 660 cfm Holleys. Many of the Modified Production smallblock competitors switched from the crossram to the "ridgerunner". Ralph also ran a "Vertex" magneto, CJ Batten heads, and General Kinetic cam, which was considered "state of the art", back then.
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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
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 EVERYONE there was trying to get a look at it that day...Thanks Roger. WJ
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02-11-2010, 02:32 PM
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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
Most of the blame for my 50-some year addiction to drag racing lies with Deb's & Carroll Caudle's MP '55 shoeboxes....thanks for the memories...I think
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Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....
Mark,
I thought about that "High and Mighty" intake before I posted that, but it's almost stretching the concept, with those round, super-tall runners... I'd say the Ramchargers were pretty successful with that manifold, though; I think they won their class at the Detroit Nat'ls with that car, AND set the C/A national record with it. How much "success" do we need???  Still, Ralph Ridgeway's efforts had immense ramifications (no pun intended) throughout Modified Eliminator, a revolutionary design protocol that still has ongoing influence, today... many years later.
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