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  • The supercharger that got away.....

    I was thinking about installing a supercharger on my Avanti (thanks a
    lot Karl) and remembered something that happened years ago. Back in
    the 90s we had quite a lot of Studebaker parts at the time my Dad sold
    the house in California. I have mentioned that before, most of those
    parts went to the scrap yard because we couldnt get anyone to come get
    then during escrow. One of those items was a COMPLETE A/C unit from a
    '64 Lark Daytona Wagonaire. What does that have to do with a losing a
    supercharger you say? Well, about a year before, there was a person
    in the Turning Wheels that wanted to trade a complete supercharger for
    an A/C setup. My dad didnt want to lose the A/C setup and so I had to
    pass on the deal. If memory serves that A/C unit went to scrap, but it
    might have gone to Charles Schintledge (sp) in Canoga Park. Hopefully.

    Tom

    '63 Avanti, zinc plated drilled & slotted 03 Mustang Cobra 13" front disc/98 GT rear brakes, 03 Cobra 17" wheels, GM alt, 97 Z28 leather seats, soon: 97 Z28 T-56 6-spd, Ported heads w/SST full flow valves, 'R3' 276 cam, Edelbrock AFB Carb, GM HEI distributor, 8.8mm plug wires
    '63 Avanti R1, '03 Mustang Cobra 13" front disc/98 GT rear brakes, 03 Cobra 17" wheels, GM alt, 97 Z28 leather seats, TKO 5-spd, Ported heads w/SST full flow valves.
    Check out my disc brake adapters to install 1994-2004 Mustang disc brakes on your Studebaker!!

    I have also written many TECH how to articles, do a search for my Forum name to find them

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    Hey don't blame me...LOL LOL I have the cast iron R2 blower mount in the garage off the Twin,hint hint hehehe...[}]

    63 Twin Supercharged Avanti
    64 Avanti R3w/NOS
    88LSC Avanti 350 Supercharged w/NOS

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    • #3
      One thing that I have always been baffled over, is my R1 Avanti has a
      dual belt pulley on the crank and water pump. I think I asked this in
      the past, but its obvious the car never had A/C, why go the expense of
      putting extra pulleys on each engine?? Its not like you can just drop
      a supercharger on a high compression R1???[:0]

      Cast iron mount? Jezzzz - like the front end isnt heavy enough![]

      Tom
      '63 Avanti R1, '03 Mustang Cobra 13" front disc/98 GT rear brakes, 03 Cobra 17" wheels, GM alt, 97 Z28 leather seats, TKO 5-spd, Ported heads w/SST full flow valves.
      Check out my disc brake adapters to install 1994-2004 Mustang disc brakes on your Studebaker!!

      I have also written many TECH how to articles, do a search for my Forum name to find them

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