AA/SA @ Norwalk OH

[Paul Wong]

I have tried to seal an AAR hood to the air cleaner. It does not work like the T/A challenger hood. There is a vacuum and it hurts performance. It was tried back to back on an AAR stocker.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by treessavoy

Thanks Bob, now all I have to do is save up $ 30,000.00 and I might be able to buy the front end.

Jim

FYI....IHRA allows the good quality fiberglass replacement fenders,front bumper, and hoods with scoop to replace the high dollar alum. . Not the flimsy "bracket" type of front end stuff. You can contact IHRA or Jack McCormick to get the companys name that makes it.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton

Myron, that is the birdbath, bathtub, etc. We had a SS/DA motor we ran in a mud truck with AFB'sX2 on a rat roaster. The ride was so violent the carbs didn't work well. A friend who used to own Arrow Racing Engines in Detroit sent me one of those and we used a race 850 on it. It was about 50% better, and then the Dominator we put on it was even better. Picture this; a 79 Dodge W150/ SS/DA motor with the Birdbath, 727 T/F, Turbo Action Converter, 2 to 1 reduction in the transfer case, 5.38's on each end, and 4 32" tractor tires on the corners in a 3/8 mile mud oval 4 times around. Now that's a ride!!!

Didnt Dodge make about 100 of those for stock elim. years ago? Can we say "Paper Car"........

[GARY JACOB]

Originally Posted by Myron Piatek

Is this one of the Hemi Nascar single carb intakes being talked about, or a similar version with that has the carb "sunk" in the top half?

http://wwnboa.com/jpgs/wwnboamckinney2.jpg


....and I also found this!

http://www.thehemi.com/gallery.php?id=0003

[b] is the intake I have and the carb looks like the one in the bathtub picture

[bigshow2966]

Originally Posted by Paul Wong

I have tried to seal an AAR hood to the air cleaner. It does not work like the T/A challenger hood. There is a vacuum and it hurts performance. It was tried back to back on an AAR stocker.

And besides that they are not a good looking hood.

The T/A scoop is a beautiful piece for sure.

[RJ]

Originally Posted by Paul Wong

I have tried to seal an AAR hood to the air cleaner. It does not work like the T/A challenger hood. There is a vacuum and it hurts performance. It was tried back to back on an AAR stocker.

Ever compare the AAR to the shaker?

[Craig Couris]

Larry,

I think I read your post incorrectly concerning the L-88 Carburetor.

Couris

[treessavoy]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

FYI....IHRA allows the good quality fiberglass replacement fenders,front bumper, and hoods with scoop to replace the high dollar alum. . Not the flimsy "bracket" type of front end stuff. You can contact them or Jack McCormick to get the companys name that makes it.

Thanks, that's some good info for those of us that can't afford aluminum. About 25 years ago there was a guy in the Mid-west that made aluminum fenders and hoods but I never got around to talking to him.

Jim

[treessavoy]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

I had a semi factory deal (had to buy the car but everything else was free) in 1971 along with Gene Collins on a Dodge Challenger and it came with a 383 and a shaker hood like Dave Boertmans Rod Shop car. The word as I heard it later that year is the shaker hoods became hard to get and several Challengers came thru with the T/A hood. Never saw one until many years later though. I never heard anything on the 'Cudas with the AAR hood. Its no different than the .527 cam on the 428 CJ's or anything else that is allowed these days. NHRA allowed the hoods years ago so they are allowed to run them. Not much different than Edelbrock heads on 396 Camaros and 390/428/427 Fords. Not to mention the NASCAR Hemi. Its not what is stock....its what is allowed these days is all that counts. The single 4 Hemi had a low rise bath tub shaped intake manifold with a 3 barrel carb (remember those?). I have the numbers at home but good luck in ever finding the correct pieces. .

The precident was set a long time ago for the T/A hood on the hemi challenger....see page 742 on the TVD thread, it shows a hemi challenger racing in the days of super tricks with a T/A hood.

If Fords can run alum. heads on cars that never had alum then why can't I run alum Indy heads on my Max Wedge? If I change it over to SS can I run the indy's and their new inline rat roaster style intake on the Max, they look very much like SS/AH manifolds?

Jim R

[Paul Precht]

Originally Posted by treessavoy

The precident was set a long time ago for the T/A hood on the hemi challenger....see page 742 on the TVD thread, it shows a hemi challenger racing in the days of super tricks with a T/A hood.

If Fords can run alum. heads on cars that never had alum then why can't I run alum Indy heads on my Max Wedge? If I change it over to SS can I run the indy's and their new inline rat roaster style intake on the Max, they look very much like SS/AH manifolds?

Jim R

That would be nice Jim. If it raised the HP factor on the Max they could run in SS/CA which would be a great class for these cars and allow them to run a head design that wasn't 48 years old, Paul.