Here's my new set up:
Never content to leave well enough alone, I embarked on a project to get cool outside air into my intake. My original thought was to come over the top of the radiator as sweetolbob has done with his fuel injected motor. This required that I put a cross flow radiator in. I decided to use a double pass radiator to get both the inlet and outlet over to the passenger side. I found a pretty decent radiator on EBay for $179 plus a matching shroud for $90. I attached my existing fan and it all fit perfectly.
I priced a custom made unit that would have bolted in like the stock one, but the price was way over $1000. So to mount this one I made some U brackets from sheet metal, padded them and bolded them to the bottom of my core support.
I then made a template from cardboard and took it over to my friend Ken where we traced the template onto 18 gauge sheet metal and he cut it out with a plasma cutter and bent it on his sheet metal brake.
I then fit it and trimmed the corners, welded the cuts and ground them smooth. Next I painted with etching primer and filled in scratches with spot putty and then sprayed with high build primer. Over the next several weeks I plan to do some other painting and will finish this piece in red matching the car.
My plan to come over the top and down through the latch hole did not work out as I hope. My engine sit further forward than Bob's and my raditor is in the core support instead of behind it. With my AC condenser, a pusher fan for the AC and also a trans cooler up there I just did not have enough room to do what I envisioned. If I had the engine install to do again I would have set it back further, but that's another story. Anyway I discovered some very nice cold air intake components from Spectre Performance and assembled what you see in the top picture. There is an air filter insider the aluminum cylinder. I routed it through the driver side fender.
Believe me, taking a 4 inch hole saw to the inner fender of my nearly 60 year old classic car was just a little scary!
After routing through the fender, I got the hole saw out again and cut a hole into the back side of the front air scoop and attached the ducting there. This should provide nice fresh air which my motor will like.
I drove the car 170 miles to the Stude gathering in Stockton on Saturday with the new radiator, but before installing the flexible duct. Outside temp was in the low 90s and I drove with the AC on. Everything stayed cool like it should.
Pat
Never content to leave well enough alone, I embarked on a project to get cool outside air into my intake. My original thought was to come over the top of the radiator as sweetolbob has done with his fuel injected motor. This required that I put a cross flow radiator in. I decided to use a double pass radiator to get both the inlet and outlet over to the passenger side. I found a pretty decent radiator on EBay for $179 plus a matching shroud for $90. I attached my existing fan and it all fit perfectly.
I priced a custom made unit that would have bolted in like the stock one, but the price was way over $1000. So to mount this one I made some U brackets from sheet metal, padded them and bolded them to the bottom of my core support.
I then made a template from cardboard and took it over to my friend Ken where we traced the template onto 18 gauge sheet metal and he cut it out with a plasma cutter and bent it on his sheet metal brake.
I then fit it and trimmed the corners, welded the cuts and ground them smooth. Next I painted with etching primer and filled in scratches with spot putty and then sprayed with high build primer. Over the next several weeks I plan to do some other painting and will finish this piece in red matching the car.
My plan to come over the top and down through the latch hole did not work out as I hope. My engine sit further forward than Bob's and my raditor is in the core support instead of behind it. With my AC condenser, a pusher fan for the AC and also a trans cooler up there I just did not have enough room to do what I envisioned. If I had the engine install to do again I would have set it back further, but that's another story. Anyway I discovered some very nice cold air intake components from Spectre Performance and assembled what you see in the top picture. There is an air filter insider the aluminum cylinder. I routed it through the driver side fender.
Believe me, taking a 4 inch hole saw to the inner fender of my nearly 60 year old classic car was just a little scary!
After routing through the fender, I got the hole saw out again and cut a hole into the back side of the front air scoop and attached the ducting there. This should provide nice fresh air which my motor will like.
I drove the car 170 miles to the Stude gathering in Stockton on Saturday with the new radiator, but before installing the flexible duct. Outside temp was in the low 90s and I drove with the AC on. Everything stayed cool like it should.
Pat
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