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
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
As referenced in my blog thread - The Rough Field Spotters Guide for Mopar Overdrives
http://p15-d24.com/blog/17/entry-79-the-rough-field-spotters-guide-for-mopar-overdrives/
One of the great articles I would like to refer to, is one that I have been given
Permission from “the living legend” - Jim Benjaminson to use here.
Of course if you are not a member of the Plymouth Owners Club here is the place to
Do that and catch other cool stuff and articles
http://www.plymouthbulletin.com/index.h
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Why do it here ? Only because I or someone can edit and compile.
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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
Well there it was, the 1st car I ever bought, a 1970 Dodge Challenger... I knew it was a major project, but I was thinking - "well I can get parts to fix this over at the scrap yard at no extra cost and the body looks good." So I was quite pleased with things.
I was off for home and Grampa who I thought was heading to the other barn to feed the livestock was busy jacking the car up and removing the wheels, just after I left. He was also obviously on the phone with Grampa Bolton.
Home I arriv
So this isn't about a flathead and to my one grand father, he like Richard Petty would turn up his nose as it wasn't a Plymouth ! lol
I have tried to recreate the conversations from my diary posts and what I can remember of conversations. Most of which I think I remember very well... lol.. Whether I did.. well at least two of the people in this story are still alive (besides me), so maybe I will run it by them sometime!
My 1st car, was a car my Dad purchased for me. It was a Plymouth with a sl
Well the pattern is complete! Attached are a couple of pictures. The one with the blue cores was just before Christmas, and the other two were actually taken last week.
The 1st intake will actually be cast tomorrow and then a 2nd one will be cast with the integrated water tube early next week. It will be made with its own mini foam core for the water tube. The tube will be on the inside, or block side of the intake. In that way it becomes easy to make it optional, without changing the outside
Happy New Years !
Well on behalf of all the AoK boys, we wish you a Happy New Years !
In the last few weeks, after being nudged by a couple of members, we started to blog.
I figured we would give it a month and see if I got a few followers interested in the ramblings of a group of
Mopar Nuts !
We have been sincerely humbled by the responses so far.
While I cant guarantee I will have the time to post as regularly throughout 2015 as I have the last month, I will try and make sure a month
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
Its part 4 over time.
Lol.. some pictures of the engine bay, the fuel block you will see on the fire wall as custom made by Dashman's Hot Rod and Speed Parts. They make super cool stuff.. You can get an idea on their ebay account (items for sale) or check out their website or give them a call.
http://www.ebay.com/usr/68rrman
http://www.dashman.net/
Oh yes, they are the supplier of the fuel distribution block and other cool stuff on the Worlds Fastest Dinasour !
Also pics of the beautiful re
Part 4 – The Plymouth gets trailered to AoK headquarters and is parked beside the “World’s Fastest Dinasour” & “Calling In Favors”
Well the Plymouth wasn’t home long and pictures were shared with my friends and the ideas and discussion of what the plans were for her.
In what I will call the round table discussion with George and Rob Asche we kicked around the idea of building a race engine that would still be streetable. We had just finished off the Velociraptor or the Worlds Fastest Dinos
So I had a bit of spare time tonight so I wrote part 3.. so a little 2 in 1 night bonus, or extra stuff to put you to sleep !
Part 3 - So what would my Aunt do.. What would me Grandfather’s do and ultimately what would my Dad do !
So The 1949 Plymouth Business Coupe, was back in the family and I had spent all winter thinking about the car and what I would do with it.
While I realize many people would try and make this super low mile car a 100 point trailer queen, that was really not in the ca
In Part two - The 1949 Plymouth raises its head again or the World is a small place contest winner ..
The 1949 Plymouth would disappear and fall out of mind after Aunt Thelma had passed away. Then in 2009 at my Dad’s funeral a friend of mine told me about an old Plymouth that was for sale that I might be interested in. A couple of weeks past and I really wasn’t looking for project, but after being nagged a few times to go see the car, we embarked on a ride to St Thomas.
My friend was following
So here is the story of my 1949 Plymouth Business Coupe or my entry to the "just how small the world can be" contest -
Part 1 - The back ground of the 1949 Plymouth, its owner, and its early life !
My Dad’s first cousin, that he always called "Aunt Thelma" Lewis lived in London Ontario, in a large house on Waterloo Avenue. Her Dad was a builder of large homes and industrial buildings in the early 1900's and by the late 1920’s was a very wealthy man.
When the stock market crashed in 1929 the
Finally this part 3 is just so I can attach a few more pictures. Primarily pictures of the famed Fred Luther Plymouth Motorcycle
as it is this summer.
Hope the 3 part post was worth the build up .. and as another of my hero's used to say .. and now you know the rest of the story !
Tim
As Promised - The story of the "Worlds Fastest Flathead…. Motorcycle !" - part 2
I am also going to attach two pictures from the 1931 Modern Mechanic which featured contest award winners from the “baby auto” contest. Both these featured car/motorcycle mixes and it was really from this 1931 publication that Grandfather said Fred got the idea for putting a car engine into a motorcycle.
But the story didn’t end in 1935. The Plymouth Motorcycle had the engine and transmission removed and well tho
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