High Performance Studebaker Parts

[Artistic Visionz]

I am looking for High Performance parts for my 1950 Studebaker. I am thinking of keeping the Champion flathead engine. I had one site in particular saved in my favorites but it got deleted somehow. The company had parts and built engines much like Cathcart's Studebaker. I have done a lot of backtracking thru other Studebaker sites like studebakervendors.com but I come up empty.
There may be other threads like this but the search was not working.
Please let me know of any [u]High Performance</u> Studebaker vendors.
Thanks

[Mike Van Veghten]

Here ya go.
Very nice guy, easy to talk to, has the knowlege.

http://www.cathcartsstudebaker.com/

Mike

[Tom Bredehoft]

A step beyond Carthcart, there's a team in Minnesota that put a turbocharger on a flat head six and holds records at Bonneville with it. They are on here occasionally, but I can't find their contact information. Google Salt to Salt racing

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'53 Commander Coupe (since 1959)
'55 President (6H Y6) State Sedan
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'05 Legacy Ltd Wagon
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[Artistic Visionz]

Thanks Mike,
I did already have Cathcarts address. What I was saying was that the company whom I am looking for sells similar parts as a Cathcarts or maybe even Dicks Hot rod place ( www.dickshotrodplace.com ). They also build Champion engines, have transmission adapters for newer Chevy auto trannys and "S-10 5 speeds" swaps.

Hello Tom,
I have the Turbo-Stude (and other turbo projects) in my bookmarks and I am interested in maybe going that route.
My thought was that a lot of people swap to the Chevy 350 so, it would be cool to use the Industrial looking Champion engine. I am weighing the cost with how much power and reliability I could get out of the engine. Offhand I know a duel carb set up and a H.P. head from Cathcarts is already over a grand and would not even make modern 4 banger power yet, lol.

Thanks,Thom

[Artistic Visionz]

Any others?

[52-fan]

Hello Tom,
I have the Turbo-Stude (and other turbo projects) in my bookmarks and I am interested in maybe going that route.
My thought was that a lot of people swap to the Chevy 350 so, it would be cool to use the Industrial looking Champion engine. I am weighing the cost with how much power and reliability I could get out of the engine. Offhand I know a duel carb set up and a H.P. head from Cathcarts is already over a grand and would not even make modern 4 banger power yet, lol.

Thanks,Thom[/QUOTE]

The Champion engine in full dress is a beautiful engine and will power your car adequately, but the design just will not make power like a modern engine. Lots of things have changed since the 1950s.

[woodysrods]

I like this!
Good roads
Brian

[sals54]

OK, Here we go again, eh? Here is my simple turbo flat 6 set up which I had in my 54 Coupe for a short time. We did over 110 mph with it and it pulled hard with about 14 lbs of boost. Sadly, it cooked a piston at that boost, but it made a ton of power for such a small engine. I outran my son who was driving my 350 powered S-10 pickup as a chase car. I could not out accelerate him, but did beat him on the top end. The S-10 had a cut off at 105 mph, and I pulled away from him rather easily. I know this is a little crude, but I just wanted to let you know that these engines can make enough power to keep up with traffic.

[woodysrods]

Hi Sal
I am sure you have posted on this with more details before.
Where do we find out more?
Brian

[sals54]

Brian, There's not much to tell really. Here are a couple of pix I have of the parts I fabricated for the project. It was nothing more than a stunt to be honest. I had the engine laying around, and my V8 was getting rebuilt at the time anyway. So I just did some fab with a turbo from an Audi 5000 from U Pull It. Then made the intake from exhaust tubing and bar stock. At the time I did without a flapper valve, no waste gate, and no blow off valve. I just wanted to see if the turbo would work on the flat 6. YES it did. It took till about 1800-2000 rpms to get going, but once there, it was like gangbusters. I had to drive with one eye on the tach and the other on the boost gage. The engine would freely rev over 4000 rpms so I had to be careful not to grenade the engine, cuz it kept pulling so hard, even at those rpms. So I would watch the boost gage and tach to find a balance. The car had 2:75 gears at the time, so that was not helping much, but as I said, once it got going, it would fly. I've kept it in the back of my mind to someday build a flat 6 with forged pistons and let the boost go. Next time I would use a pop off valve to help conrtrol boost to about 10-12 psi and install alchohol injection to help insure against leaning out at higher rpms and also help cool the intake charge so I didn't have to use an intercooler. Simple is best for me. Here is the intake and exhaust I used on it.

Sorry, I could not find the originals in my files to make thumbnails.

[woodysrods]

Carb?? Stock??????
Sounds like fun, and you sound much more mechanical than I am.
I am a fabricator not a gear head.
Brian

[Jett289]

Very interesrting . Love to see more on the turbo champion engine.. I have talked with Cathcart and can attest to him being very friendly and knowing his stuff. I think its well worth the money he charges.

[sals54]

The carb was essentially stock, but being an older carb, I had to seal all the vents and seal the accelerator pump. If you used a newer Edlebrock type carb, all you would need to do is replace the accelerator pump with a marine style. Keep the boost below 10 lbs and the floats would not be an issue.