The ever innovative crew at Garage 54 just dropped a video of a Lada engine running on a home made see through intake manifold, and it illustrates perfectly some of the much talked about but never seen dynamics at work in the intake runner.
Here’s some of what we got out of it and how it ties to previous videos we’ve done on the subject.
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Why use the factory 4 barrel intake? It's gotta be 25 or 30 pounds heavier than an aluminum aftermarket intake manifold. They do make good rowboat anchors though.
Off topic, but since this is the most recent vid, I would like to see a vid explaining the old Rhoads lifters. I bought a set of these things on my first hot rod engine back in the late '70s [Boss 302]. They were supposed to be "variable duration" lifters. I never personally had a problem with them, [never dyno'd them vs another set of lifters] but I never used them after that one engine build. So what was the deal with these lifters?
them guys garage 54 are funny as hell i watch um all the time they come up with some crazy shit ✌✌✌✌✌
That yellow center section and block looks real nice! did I miss an upload?
Some pretty interesting stuff. I just cleaned up the old spread bore intake that came on my 327 large journal today. I believe it’s original, 1968. I think I’m going to finish cleaning it up and run it for a bit on the 327 and start with that. I’ll probably run it in the 55 Chevy for a bit just to see how it goes. Honestly I’m sick and tired of all the bolt on crap and I plan on building a 68 Camaro for the wife in the future and this would make perfect sense to keep that way. Good stuff.
No politics?
Russians ahead again
I really enjoy Garage54. Its just a fun channel to watch. They experiment on cheap cars anyone can get their hands on and I love the formula.
My truck bed sides is starting to be see through
If there is port mismatch it needs to not have the flow hitting a wall, it better to have a small port intake ona large head ,
A smaller intake on a larger head, is better than the opposite,
All engine are performance engines,
Russians are ppl too, thanks for keeping the political stuff out, they are just like us!
Hey, maybe you could mill the top off the runner of a intake , and glue a strip of Plexi on the top, , maybe put a led inside, shining into the intake runner of the head, so it can be well seen, or use a piece of glass, so it can be seen better, that would make a cool video, if you have a garbage intake!
What if the gasket would be so small that it would offer that gas a jump back to the mixture stream
Loda Ladas. :-). When I went to Ukraine in 2009, many taxis were Ladas. Some Volgas ad a few Chev Aveo, built in Poland. Virtually all were manual transmission. One Aveo had an automatic.
Virtually all the carbureted cars popped through the carb. Accelerator pump probably set for minimal pump shot to save on fuel. All the injected cars had the check engine light illuminated, probably for a similar reason. They fiddled with something for fuel economy.
Those guys at Garage54 are pretty inventive guys. Have to give them credit. Now the one where they cut one Lada engine in half and welded two cylinders on to another engine and did the same to the crankshaft was definately out there to made a six. They did get it running.
clear carb with high speed camera https://youtu.be/toVfvRhWbj8
I will be port matching bb trick flow intakes to 270 heads.
Let you know the results.
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Hey Tony does gasket matching help with fuel injected manifolds
I am currently using iron performance heads on my sbc street-strip build which have larger intake port entries compared to the iron quadrajet intake manifold ports where those smaller rectangles of my intake meet the cylinder head such that it is not slicing the column of atomized fuel and air due to an interruption, but rather being led into a "larger room" so to speak due to the small-to-large transfer. do you think this would affect things other than just limiting my max flow based on the bottleneck of the intake?
Uncle Tony, I seem to recall you talking about issues with gearing on the tour and I have a serious question. What's your take on the Gear Vendors "overdrive" unit? I understand the theory, but I'm unfamiliar with the unit.
Please let me know because I'm thinking of buying a used one but I'd like it if you weighed in first. Thanx!