Thread: '57 Chevy gasser build

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Blower Drive Service makes some neat electronic fuel injection systems that look vintage....I suspect they would be way easier to tune than a mechanical system that you have to change every time the wind blows from a different direction....
http://blowerdriveservice.com/efigallery.php

Gotta be a fat block....

60 inch ladder bars shown here....scroll down....
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...&Number=351995
If you terminate them with a Heim, install safety loops....
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CEE-2018/
If you terminate them with double-shear bolts/nuts, no safety loops are required.

Assuming a 7.50 or slower car, best bet for a scattershield would be a SFI 6.1, (2-disc max, SFI 1.1 or 1.2 clutch), shield has a life of 5 years before re-cert. 6.2, 6.3 is one or two years, depending on steel or titanium, before re-cert.

Had Super Chevy Show this past weekend. Never saw so many fat blocks in one place at one time. Teched a 409 '61 Bel-Air sedan, blown 496 1951 Plymouth wagon. Lots of nice Bowties in the car show. Best paint (best eyeball) was Cobalt Blue.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

Blower Drive Service makes some neat electronic fuel injection systems that look vintage....I suspect they would be way easier to tune than a mechanical system that you have to change every time the wind blows from a different direction....
http://blowerdriveservice.com/efigallery.php

Gotta be a fat block....

60 inch ladder bars shown here....scroll down....
http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/ubbt...&Number=351995
If you terminate them with a Heim, install safety loops....
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CEE-2018/
If you terminate them with double-shear bolts/nuts, no safety loops are required.

Assuming a 7.50 or slower car, best bet for a scattershield would be a SFI 6.1, (2-disc max, SFI 1.1 or 1.2 clutch), shield has a life of 5 years before re-cert. 6.2, 6.3 is one or two years, depending on steel or titanium, before re-cert.

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Thanks Richard, the Yenko site is great!!! Looked at the electronic EFI for Hilborns some time back for another project....Think I'd be boo'd off the track if I had EFI?????

That cross ram suggestion would be great too. Some early gassers did run them in the early days.

I had lots of 409 parts in the eighties, and sold all kinds of speed parts to go into the custom paint biz. That included an M/T cross ram!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Think I'd be boo'd off the track if I had EFI?????

I don't think it's anyone's business but yours. If they're lookin' that closely, they're lookin' for trouble. Personally, I'd rather be sittin' back in a comfortable chair until next round than I would changin' pills and constantly checkin' my weather station.

Originally Posted by techinspector1

I don't think it's anyone's business but yours. If they're lookin' that closely, they're lookin' for trouble. Personally, I'd rather be sittin' back in a comfortable chair until next round than I would changin' pills and constantly checkin' my weather station.

Yeah, good point. Actually, the first part I ordered for the build was a new pit canopy!!!!!!!!

I edited one of my posts above to put up the Scribner car.........quintessential in my mind, but then, that's because we both ran at San Fernando, and they rocked!!!

There's a couple pages on Byrons site of just tri-five gassers.

Man, you guys put up a lot of stuff while I was huntin' pics.....

I grew up near Chicago.... :-)

Originally Posted by HOTRODPAINT

I grew up near Chicago.... :-)

So did I Hotrod, Bensenville, 25 miles west, been to Oswego raceway many times at the age of 14/15, the last year we went `66, saw the match race between Arnie beswick GTO and Stone woods cook willys, just a cool time in our lives.

In my humble opinion, 57's look best with the 150 Series chrome like in the second video that Don linked. When I was 16, I worked at Liberal Super Market with a guy who had a yellow '57 150. I've been in love with that look ever since.

Dave, if you like spokes, these gasser types being reproduced by ET would be perfect on that 57. They bolt on so you can run disc or drum brakes.

Don

I love spending someone elses money.

Originally Posted by 406Rich

So did I Hotrod, Bensenville, 25 miles west, been to Oswego raceway many times at the age of 14/15, the last year we went `66, saw the match race between Arnie beswick GTO and Stone woods cook willys, just a cool time in our lives.

A guy I went to school with, Charlie Carter, wrenched on Beswick's car in the mid 60's!!!! Short little dude with one eye, you guys ever run across him out there??? After working with Beswick, Charlie came home and wrenched for the late Arnie Toftland who ran a Firebird convertible in SS!!!!

Glad to hear this Dave. Man this will be way cool drop me a note on its first Race Day and I'll be there---Anywhere---to watch her run down the track.

Besides it seems like I remember a feller telling me once that something like this would be better than watching Soap Operas, wonder who that was?????

Here's a few pictures to get the blood to pumping.....

Roland