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Ramblings about Vintage Mopar Performance stuff with the Kingsbury's and Asche's

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Welcome - a new blog is born

Welcome to the “Keeping Up with the AoK boys” blog, or in other words, Ramblings about Vintage Mopar Performance stuff with the Kingsbury's and Asche's This Blog really originated after several forum members suggested I should start a blog. After discussions with the p15d24 site owner, my “brothers”, the guy who calls me his “3rd son” rofl, George Asche, and a few forum members, I decided to take the plunge. I will start off apologizing in advance to all of the above ! Lol, in other words, be
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Updated to the - Hatfield and McCoys Mopar Edition ?? Lol.. Nah.. Asche and Kingsburys - AoK

In reply to the request.. here is "the truck" and the Trip to Saskatewan.. It is a 1952 Fargo and the reason I attached the combine in the grainry... its a 1955 Massey Harris, and you guess it ... it has a 265 chrylser flathead in it. The picture of Dad beside the fargo out in Saskatewan was taken as he looked at it and he had no idea, that I would eventually purchase it, bring it back and give it to him for his birthday in Feb 2002. The picture of me with the truck tucked in the garage, i
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Update Final preproduction prototype done!- "AoK - New Dual Carb intake for the USA flathead 6"

Well folks its back from the machine shop and for the last prototype before production it is awesome! Here are a couple of pictures.. The intake is designed to be able to accommodate a linkage bar on the inside or outside of the intake, as well as a casted section for truck usage, which will double as a spot for a serial number. We will try and early this week get an eta on getting the 1st batch, as well as George will make up a set of linkage and we will try and get a shipping
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Update "AoK - New Dual Carb intake for the USA flathead 6"

Howdy Folks - Well while we are awaiting the first lot of intakes to be cast George has been busy working on various linkage combinations. Here is the 1st look close up of the finished prototype AoK dual carb intake for 23 1/2" USA flathead mopars. This one has - prototype linkage being developed for trucks or 1933-1938 Cars Notice the left carb linkage bar has been cut short, and is not hooked to the left carb. That is strictly for prototype purposes It shows how the serial number and
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Update - "AoK - New Dual Carb intake for the USA flathead 6"

Well it has been a while since we last checked in with the progress report on the New AoK intake. As does happen some things just throw a curve ball into a project and the water jacket feature was our curve ball. We have a perfectionist as our pattern maker and while it didn't increase in price, he most certainly put in a ton of extra time trying to come up with a solution to the water jacket "perfect solution". The perfect solution really became comprised of two factors. 1) We asked if it
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Twas the night before Christmas, - AoK version

Well Folks - It is that time of year again, with 2014 flying by so fast it must have been powered by a 265 ci flathead ! I know Santa has checked his list to see who was naughty and who was nice. As usually I am on the list of several Corvette, Ford and Chevy owners and maybe even Mrs Claus's naughty list. So while most are thinking about - "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney wit
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Today I lost my second Mom..

Folks - I started to write this note on Monday on what was the 80th Birthday of my good friend, George Asche's wife June's 80th birthday. June has been in extremely poor health for the last 14 months and has surpassed all of the medical experts estimates. The last few weeks have been a struggle but when I dropped by to visit with flowers as I have done for now close to 20 years, she smiled, thanked me and tried hard to carry on a conversation. She was a very cool lady. She was both extremely
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Heating an Intake

To Heat my intake or not? Subtitled: Running water from an engine to heat an intake a good idea? NO!

1st we should start about heating intakes, and to make it easy this is primarily about Chrysler/Dodge/Fargo/Desoto/Plymouth intakes on Flathead (L-Head) engines from the 1930s-1950s and I would also refer you to read my article on multiple carbs.   Chrysler Corporation was building cars and trucks to run 12 months a year and under conditions that range wildly in terms of how hot, how cold the climate was as well as different levels above sea level.    This is going To be at a more
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new product introduction - custom rods and pistons

Tim's winner of the #1 performance item for the Mopar flathead engine - Pistons and Rods

Folks - Im excited to be able to share Tony Smith  big announcement    A key member of the Montana Dodge Boys involved in multiple land speed records.   MONTANA DODGE BOYS VINTAGE LANDSPEED RACING - Home (fastfourspecial.com)   As many know my family and friends have been known to dabble in high performance Chryslers (Desoto, Dodge, Plymouth, Fargo) engines and while the Kingsbury side of AoK racing is more 25 1/2" motor based, the Asche side of AoK ra
World's Greatest Intake - AoK Last run Last Call

The Worlds Greatest Intakes - AoK

Hi folks -    The good news folks, is that the AoK Boys will be making another run of our AoK Intakes;   The bad news is this will likely the last run we do...   More at the end of this note, but as requested by many, a look back at how the intakes came to be...     It was over 20 years ago that  George Asche Jr and Eddy Kingsbury (both Feb 1932 babies)  we hanging out at Chrysler Carlisle, or The All Chrysler Nationals.   Along with George's son Rob
Chrysler overdrives

The Rough Field Spotters Guide for Mopar Overdrives

Overview:   We keep being asked about Mopar Overdrives, so I thought I would do a blog on spotting overdrives.   I know from the start this is not the definitive guide, thus I have titled it - "The Rough Field Spotters Guide for Overdrives" and this will start off being slanted towards Plymouths ! This will definitely grow as I need to take some pictures of earlier (pre-1942) overdrives to put up.   If you want to add replies with more information, super, more t

The Living Legend,Shirley Muldowney's Mother has passed awa

Shirley Muldowney's Mom,  Mae Scarborough Roque passed away today, in her 100th year.   I had the chance to chat  With Mrs Rogue. What a wonderful lady. How proud she was of her "little girl" putting those boys in their place on the track. In her 100th year She had quite a life.    Our condolences to Shirley and the entire family       Mae Scarborough Roque JANUARY 3, 1918 - JANUARY 9, 2017
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The Grand Master Turns 85 today !

February 6 1932   my good friend and second Dad, the Grand Master of Flathead Mopars -  George Asche was born.     Yesterday was his surprise Birthday Party and today is George's 85th Birthday!     The picture below  is rumored to be when George Graduated High School, but I think really that should be a diploma of future Flathead Chrysler, Desoto, Plymouth, Dodge/Fargo's mastery !    In the background is his Dad's Dodge truck which George still owns today!   Happy Birthday George!
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The all Mighty Cam - Flathead Style

As suggested by Captain Fred in his blog entry on his 1940 Plymouth build, he wanted something done on cams.   Well, that can be quite a topic, and while you can find all kinds of article on the "inter-web" on how cams work in an engine, my goal is to put a Flathead Mopar slant on the topic.   Of course as my Grandfather used to say, an engine is nothing more and a large vacuum pump. Your cam turns lifting up intake valves, as pistons are being turned by a crank and that cre
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Thank you everyone for all your help, shout outs! Keep them coming..

Thanks for all the awesome responses I have received from members with pictures of intakes, brochures and information as I keep putting together spotters guides on intakes and overdrives. I love the shout outs and stories behind your cars. They are great and should be up on the reference area as testimony to life lessons, great people and the stories behind their cars. From my super sleuth http://p15-d24.com/user/5770-61farnham/ from the other side of the Pond in England To Bob http://p15-d
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Solving the Modern Overdrive with a Floor Shift using Mopar Parts

I will start this Blog entry off with a cut and paste from an entry I recently posted on the forum.   The preamble:   I am not a fan of the non-mopar t5 transmission conversion. A great deal of those transmissions have gear splits that were meant for low horsepower, low torque engines and they just do not match up well to a flathead mopar. The are also in my opinion, a great deal of work to make the conversion. There are many models of the T5 transmission, with several having very little ove
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Single Carb Intake, Dual Carb Intake, Triple Carb Intake, why not more ?

·         ·       For Decades I have listened to people talk about Flathead Mopar 6 Cylinder Engines in terms of intakes, what is the best carb configuration for their particular situation.      Discussions on putting two carbs and those who claim to be sure that is too much carburation or that it will use to much fuel. Then every once in a while the discussion of 3 carbs comes up, and that almost always sparks the debate on how it would take a race motor to need it, or how the en
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Shout out to Mike Meier - just another awesome mopar nut !

Well as the year is coming to a quick end, a shout out to a great guy and fellow Mopar Nut! I am not 100% sure what year it was, but sometime after the earth cooled, my Dad, George Asche and I were hanging out at Chrysler Carlisle (or I guess All Chrysler Nationals) when I 1st met Mike. I think we hit it off immediately and as my Dad said, that guy has that same twinkle in his eye as you do.. Full Throttle Trouble ! Over the years we would see Mike and his buddies, and somewhere a few years a
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Rough Spotters Guide for Intakes, Heads, Headers - their related technical information - Part 4 - "the still mades" - Offenhauser, Fenton & Edgy

All of these intakes are still being manufactured or substantial amounts of new product still exists. Offenhauser - still made, available at many suppliers, even the big chains like Summit Racing, and they also sell "connection kits" with linkage. These dual carb intakes are for the 201, 217 and 230 USA small block engines. http://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/ofy-2691/applications Fenton - still readily available although I did not see them on the big chains. These du
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Rough Spotters Guide for Intakes and their related technical information - Part 6 - Sharp or "Al Sharp Fan Club"

Sharp Speed and Power Equipment - Al Sharp First up a vintage decal from Sharp Speed and Power Equipment. Yes this is the Al Sharp who under the banner "Sharp Engineering" Sponsored (and built the Hemi Heads) for the famous - "Mooneyham & Sharp 554 1934 Coupe" that can today be found be found at Don "Big Daddy" Garlits Drag Racing Museum oh and of course of the famous Hot Wheels collection ! It seems Al Sharp acquired the Fenton intake patterns at a bankruptcy auction from Aaron Fent
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Rough Spotters Guide for Intakes and their related technical information - Part 5 - Ellis, Thickson & McGurk

Ellis - Made intakes for Chrysler Corporation for the Dodge 331, 377 and 413 ci "super big" block truck engine. They also made aftermarket intakes for both the USA small block and the Canadian big block 6 cylinder engines. This intake is believed to be off a feb 1950 built 377 ci engine which was 4" bore and 5" stroke producing 154 hp at 3000rpm and 330 lbs of torque, 7 main bearing crank. Here is an Ellis intake courtesy of http://p15-d24.com/user/296-ralph-d25c
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Rough Spotters Guide for Intakes and their related technical information - Part 2 Tattersfield & Nicson

In creating this spotters guide for Flathead Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler, Desoto, Fargo intakes my hope was to show related information, pictures of various intakes, and attach any technical information and perhaps vintage ads for them. I am starting it here in hopes of putting something together with the help of many members and then maybe move it to the technical archives. . Why do it here ? Only because I or someone can edit and compile.   #2 Nicson Engineerin
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Rough Spotters Guide for Intakes and their related technical information - Part 1 Edmunds

In creating this spotters guide for Flathead Plymouth, Dodge, Chrysler, Desoto, Fargo intakes my hope was to show related information, pictures of various intakes, and attach any technical information and perhaps vintage ads for them. I am starting it here in hopes of putting something together with the help of many members and then maybe move it to the technical archives. If there is lots of information coming forward, then maybe it becomes a given thread for each different intake For now
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Rough Spotters Guide for Intakes & their related technical information - Part 3 - The GrandDaddy - Dodge, Plus Vintage Speed Stuff

3rd part in the series, its for me the Grand Daddy of them all, straight from the Chrysler Engine Factory in Windsor Ontario Canada, factory Dual Carb intake, and factory Dual exhaust which were options on Dodge Trucks. Most believe they were only on 265 ci engines, however that is incorrect. They were available through a factory order on either the 250 or 265 ci motors, and at Dodge truck dealers, they would happily put them on any new truck you wished to put them on. There is a local farmer w
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