George introduced us to this special car on this thread...
Here's some pictures and a short description he sent me...
"Here are three engine photos of my '60 Lark 2-door; thanks for your offer to post them. There is a filter element where the heater used to be.... makes a nice fresh/ram air setup, since the air is picked up from under the right front parking light. Externally, the car looks 100% stock....I'll send photos of it when I can get it out to take some. Brief engine description:
259 bored .100", for 274 CID (a 7,000+ rpm engine)
Variable ratio blower, blueprinted by Ted, curved vane impeller, R2 AFB carb, matched intake ports
On a flow bench, the heads flow 15% better than stock R3 heads, w/titanium valves....R3 intake, 1.60" exhaust.
R2 cam, forged Ross pistons, balanced.
R3 headers w/ internal work & matching, 2 1/4" exhaust.
Aluminum flywheel, OD trans, 4.27 TT rear end, HD rear springs.
And much more. Everything is freshly built, and I'm just getting it broken in. Auto Machine built the engine (they built Ron Hall's 185 mph stock R3 Bonneville engine and the R3 in the Plain Brown Wrapper plus at least 50 Stude V8s for various Stude guys, so they know the Stude V8 very well).
In doing this car, I had three concepts:
1. Make a visual duplicate of my dad's 1960 Lark that he bought new...it had V8, power kit, no radio or other options, and it was Colonial Red. I was with him when he ordered it...sure enjoyed that car....I still have the original window sticker.
2. Build a '60 very similar to the Holman & Moody racing Larks that did so well, plus blower.
3. See what I could get out of a 259 for street use. The variable ratio blower gives quite a bit more low and mid-range power than a Paxton fixed ratio. They're about the same over 5,000 rpm when the VR pressure regulation runs out.
A '59/'60/'61 Lark 2-door sedan is the lightest car that Studebaker put a V8 in."
Pretty neat!! [] [8D]
Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA
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Here's some pictures and a short description he sent me...
"Here are three engine photos of my '60 Lark 2-door; thanks for your offer to post them. There is a filter element where the heater used to be.... makes a nice fresh/ram air setup, since the air is picked up from under the right front parking light. Externally, the car looks 100% stock....I'll send photos of it when I can get it out to take some. Brief engine description:
259 bored .100", for 274 CID (a 7,000+ rpm engine)
Variable ratio blower, blueprinted by Ted, curved vane impeller, R2 AFB carb, matched intake ports
On a flow bench, the heads flow 15% better than stock R3 heads, w/titanium valves....R3 intake, 1.60" exhaust.
R2 cam, forged Ross pistons, balanced.
R3 headers w/ internal work & matching, 2 1/4" exhaust.
Aluminum flywheel, OD trans, 4.27 TT rear end, HD rear springs.
And much more. Everything is freshly built, and I'm just getting it broken in. Auto Machine built the engine (they built Ron Hall's 185 mph stock R3 Bonneville engine and the R3 in the Plain Brown Wrapper plus at least 50 Stude V8s for various Stude guys, so they know the Stude V8 very well).
In doing this car, I had three concepts:
1. Make a visual duplicate of my dad's 1960 Lark that he bought new...it had V8, power kit, no radio or other options, and it was Colonial Red. I was with him when he ordered it...sure enjoyed that car....I still have the original window sticker.
2. Build a '60 very similar to the Holman & Moody racing Larks that did so well, plus blower.
3. See what I could get out of a 259 for street use. The variable ratio blower gives quite a bit more low and mid-range power than a Paxton fixed ratio. They're about the same over 5,000 rpm when the VR pressure regulation runs out.
A '59/'60/'61 Lark 2-door sedan is the lightest car that Studebaker put a V8 in."
Pretty neat!! [] [8D]
Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA
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