{"id":1026,"date":"2013-01-21T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-11-11T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T17:53:32","slug":"a-blower-manifold-for-a-54-chrysler-hemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"A Blower Manifold for a ’54 Chrysler Hemi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blown<\/a><\/p>\n

Our friend Tim Edwards has built a lot of hot rods, but he\u2019s long had a hankering for a dragster. When the opportunity popped up to score a \u201940 Willys, Tim was, excuse the pun, off to the races.<\/p>\n

The Willys came with a Cad motor, but Tim also had a Hemi he’d been wrenching on for his son Landon\u2019s \u201933 tudor. He’d already done a lot of work on Landon’s Hemi, but oh man, it would be perfect<\/i> for his new Willys. Landon, a very generous kid, agreed to a swap.<\/p>\n

If the Willys was getting a Hemi, it would have to be blown<\/i> Hemi — but like every project, there were issues. The motor was a ’54 331 and the heads were a one-year-only design. They\u2019re clean and free of any water-crossover plumbing, but they\u2019re also saddled with extra-tall heat risers. No blower manifolds were ever manufactured for them. 2×4 manifolds were available, but they\u2019re rare. Since a 2×4 set-up would fit under the hood of\u00a0 Landon’s project, Tim had tracked one down. He\u2019d also totally rebuilt the heads. They were ready to bolt on.<\/p>\n

So, committed to the heads, but determined to run a blower, Tim dropped by the shop. Could we weld a flat plate to the 2×4 to accommodate a blower plate? There was a \u00be inch slope from one end of the manifold to the other, but if a thick enough plate were welded on, could it be milled level? Tim chased down the materials and turned them over to Gary. We thought you\u2019d like to see how he made it come together.
\n\"Blower<\/a>Gary perimeter welded an inch thick plate to Tim’s manifold. It took a lot of stick and a lot of juice, but when completed it provided a surface Gary could mill flat. He also added a pop-up valve. You can see in the photo above the fixture Gary built to do all the machine work.
\n\"Blower<\/a>
\nThe welded plate was milled flat, then temporarily drilled and tapped to hold the blower plate in place.
\n\"Blower<\/a>\"Blower<\/a>\"Blower<\/a>\"Blower<\/a>The blower plate manifold mounting holes were sunk and flat-headed bolts used to clear the blower.
\n\"Blower<\/a>\"Blower<\/a>\"Blower<\/a>Here’s the manifold installed, back in Tim’s garage:
\n\"Hemi<\/a>\"Hemi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friend Tim Edwards has built a lot of hot rods, but he\u2019s long had a hankering for a dragster. When the opportunity popped up to score a \u201940 Willys, Tim was, excuse the pun, off to the races. The Willys came with a Cad motor, but Tim also had a Hemi he’d been wrenching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past_projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1I3Pf-gy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seabrighthotrods.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}