If you could build an Engine.....
09-23-2003, 07:37 PM
#13
^^^ eww flatheads are useless.
Naw, there cool just not my choice for a hot rod.
Oh, Johnson, back before the shop got broke into while my dad and I were building hot-rods,dune buggies etc...we used a pipe bender to make headers for the dune buggies.....we used the 1600cc VW beetle motors. This is going back a few years when there was still a few places to go with the dune buggies. But anyway, it was hard to find performance parts for those motors...still is to my understanding...so we used to have to build some of our own parts like headers.
In fact my dad's Super Beetle had all kinds of machining done to it for more compression then he built his own header for it, Webber Side-Draft carbs and custom flat-top pistons. That engine pushed 300HP+ and it would crank out to like 11,000RPM all day long. This thing was a beast.
We did one other engine that we built headers for.
It was a 429 Super Cobra Jet out of a 66 Thunderbird. It was mostly stock Ford parts,
used the stock crank and pistons. The only thing that we changed was the intake and the carb....had an Edelbrock intake and 750 dual feed carb. Then the headers we built. That engine was good for 450-500HP when we finished it. Not too bad for mostly stock Ford parts.
You are right though, beding your own pipe does reduce the inside diameter of the pipe....it also wrinkles the pipe and creates a rough surface inside the header which can reduce horsepower....not by much, but it adds up.
Naw, there cool just not my choice for a hot rod.
Oh, Johnson, back before the shop got broke into while my dad and I were building hot-rods,dune buggies etc...we used a pipe bender to make headers for the dune buggies.....we used the 1600cc VW beetle motors. This is going back a few years when there was still a few places to go with the dune buggies. But anyway, it was hard to find performance parts for those motors...still is to my understanding...so we used to have to build some of our own parts like headers.
In fact my dad's Super Beetle had all kinds of machining done to it for more compression then he built his own header for it, Webber Side-Draft carbs and custom flat-top pistons. That engine pushed 300HP+ and it would crank out to like 11,000RPM all day long. This thing was a beast.
We did one other engine that we built headers for.
It was a 429 Super Cobra Jet out of a 66 Thunderbird. It was mostly stock Ford parts,
used the stock crank and pistons. The only thing that we changed was the intake and the carb....had an Edelbrock intake and 750 dual feed carb. Then the headers we built. That engine was good for 450-500HP when we finished it. Not too bad for mostly stock Ford parts.
You are right though, beding your own pipe does reduce the inside diameter of the pipe....it also wrinkles the pipe and creates a rough surface inside the header which can reduce horsepower....not by much, but it adds up.
09-23-2003, 08:10 PM
#14
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Join Date: May 2000
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Originally posted by slingshot2:
^^^ eww flatheads are useless.
Naw, there cool just not my choice for a hot rod.
Oh, Johnson, back before the shop got broke into while my dad and I were building hot-rods,dune buggies etc...we used a pipe bender to make headers for the dune buggies.....we used the 1600cc VW beetle motors. This is going back a few years when there was still a few places to go with the dune buggies. But anyway, it was hard to find performance parts for those motors...still is to my understanding...so we used to have to build some of our own parts like headers.
In fact my dad's Super Beetle had all kinds of machining done to it for more compression then he built his own header for it, Webber Side-Draft carbs and custom flat-top pistons. That engine pushed 300HP+ and it would crank out to like 11,000RPM all day long. This thing was a beast.
We did one other engine that we built headers for.
It was a 429 Super Cobra Jet out of a 66 Thunderbird. It was mostly stock Ford parts,
used the stock crank and pistons. The only thing that we changed was the intake and the carb....had an Edelbrock intake and 750 dual feed carb. Then the headers we built. That engine was good for 450-500HP when we finished it. Not too bad for mostly stock Ford parts.
You are right though, beding your own pipe does reduce the inside diameter of the pipe....it also wrinkles the pipe and creates a rough surface inside the header which can reduce horsepower....not by much, but it adds up.
^^^ eww flatheads are useless.
Naw, there cool just not my choice for a hot rod.
Oh, Johnson, back before the shop got broke into while my dad and I were building hot-rods,dune buggies etc...we used a pipe bender to make headers for the dune buggies.....we used the 1600cc VW beetle motors. This is going back a few years when there was still a few places to go with the dune buggies. But anyway, it was hard to find performance parts for those motors...still is to my understanding...so we used to have to build some of our own parts like headers.
In fact my dad's Super Beetle had all kinds of machining done to it for more compression then he built his own header for it, Webber Side-Draft carbs and custom flat-top pistons. That engine pushed 300HP+ and it would crank out to like 11,000RPM all day long. This thing was a beast.
We did one other engine that we built headers for.
It was a 429 Super Cobra Jet out of a 66 Thunderbird. It was mostly stock Ford parts,
used the stock crank and pistons. The only thing that we changed was the intake and the carb....had an Edelbrock intake and 750 dual feed carb. Then the headers we built. That engine was good for 450-500HP when we finished it. Not too bad for mostly stock Ford parts.
You are right though, beding your own pipe does reduce the inside diameter of the pipe....it also wrinkles the pipe and creates a rough surface inside the header which can reduce horsepower....not by much, but it adds up.
as for the vw dub (1600 flat 4 gear) vw used to have a performance engine assembly plant in scarborough (think its gone now) was around when i had my buggy ... and theres tons of performance parts for the flats still ....
as for the bender - i used a "ben pearson" for 2 or so years and found the only some alloys would crumple up when bending...
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