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Old 02-10-2010, 10:51 PM   #11
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WJ,
This is the blue / white configuration. Notice the rear wheel openings are moved up.
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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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WJ I am not sure but there are not that Ridgeway .Our family came from Ireland if someone has Ralphs contact info I would appreciate it
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Old 02-11-2010, 11:17 AM   #14
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Look close at those photo's. Are those headers hooked up to exhaust with full tailpipe's to back bumper? Doug
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Old 02-11-2010, 11:43 AM   #15
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Default Re: Deb's/Ralph Ridgeway '55 Chev C/MP car.....

Ralph Ridgway did run the first Tunnel Ram type manifold. It was a Plenum and base from an early Fuel Injection. Way ahead of it,s time for that period. Any time we saw the Deb,s car it was fast. That,s all I remember. Thanks Joe Fasano.
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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...
Bill possibly the first working small block tunnel ram.
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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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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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.
Yes, that jolted my brain enough to make the memory come back....That "Ridgerunner Ram" fabricated intake is the one I got a glimpse of (in earlier post) at Lebanon Valley about 43 yrs ago, ha. EVERYONE there was trying to get a look at it that day...Thanks Roger. WJ
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Old 02-11-2010, 02:32 PM   #19
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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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Default 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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