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If your engine is out and your hood is on could ya do me a favor?
I need to know how much space is between the core support and the hood when closed.
Thanks
I don't Grinner, but if I remember when I get home I'll get a wet towel or blanket,put it on my core support, and shut my hood on it. Then measure it's thickness.
WE GOTTA KNOW!!! What are you thinking of shoehorning in there???
I've got it, he wants to twincharge the engine, --run a Roots/screw type supercharger on top of the engine to force air into a large turbocharger and he's trying to determine if it'll have enough clearance to fit under the stock hood.
Top of my Rad is touching the under hood vinyl covering If you can see the grayish lines that's from the Rad support rubbing it.
But an using a 73 rad core support an 460 rad extra cool rad.
Orich
I can't give you a measurement, but like Orich said the top of the support is as high as the bottom of the hood bracing. When I put the cover on the bottom of my hood I had to put clips on the front hood brace to push the cover up enough to clear the top of the core support.
Roots supercharger haw,haw!!! You guys crack me up. I'm nowhere near smart enough to pull that one off. I will however do some research on that.
I'm just figuring how much radiator I can get in there and wether to get center fill or side fill.
My, my, my, when Mr Rogers said "use your imagination"...some of us took that pretty seriously.
LOL
Twin - charging isn't new. One type of charger offsets the negative of the other. Superchargers put more parasitic loss on the engine, due to being belt-driven. A large turbocharger suffers from turbo lag. Putting both together though, the supercharger being belt-driven immediately spins up right along with the engine to force air into the turbocharger, which makes the turbocharger spool up faster and generate more output more rapidly into the combustion chambers.
I'll let you in on a secret. A blower would be a tight fit, but not under the hood. Under the cowl.
I have a blown 390 in my '64 Galaxie
(build picture from 1999)
The actual blower is near the very rear of the intake. That would put the blower/carbs right up through the cowl on our trucks(take a look and you will see). This using a Blue Thunder blower manifold(true, cast blower manifold), not a welded together unit. If you got a blower plate and put it on your favorite manifold you could move it forward enough to clear? You would have to work off the drive dimensions, so you could get a belt to line up.
Of course this would near eliminate the possible use of any distributor as it would be in the way. Not sure even one of those fancy offset versions would work.
Even with just a factory 2x4 intake, the rear carb is under the cowl:
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