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QwkTrip
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 Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: Need a little help finding information |
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| I'm trying to find some drawings of the Vortech supercharger kit for carburetor on big block Chevy. Need to check fit in engine bay and hood clearance. Anybody able to find this? I've come up empty. |
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Schultzy89GTA
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Can you get enough reference measurements from this?
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| That's the standard bracket. Can you find something on the low mount instead? Part number 4GA218-040. |
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Dewey316
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| Have you tried contacting Vortec? |
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| I e-mailed them many days ago. No reply. |
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aaron_sK
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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The carb enclosure link definitely helps! Thanks!
The supercharger kit is not the low mount version. The low mount is the one I'm having so much trouble finding anything about. |
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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 I can seem to find hide nor hair of it either
Heck, Jon, if it doesn't fit under the B-A-H just get the Sawzall out and do one of these:
You're wife will have an all new appreciation for her midlife crisis-mobile. |
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Ya, she won't even be able to see except to turn left. 
Whoever did that obviously put a lot of effort into the car and then got to the hood and said, "SCREW IT!!!!" They knew it was so bad that they didn't even both painting it.  |
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, it looks like the 7-1/2" height of the carb enclosure will take up all my hood clearance. No room left for the intake manifold. An Edelbrock Torker II manifold is about 4 inches high. |
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aaron_sK
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:22 am Post subject: |
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4" cowl time, Jon?
| QwkTrip wrote: | | Whoever did that obviously put a lot of effort into the car and then got to the hood and said, "SCREW IT!!!!" They knew it was so bad that they didn't even both painting it. |
Hell, with that motor he could probably just drive around with no hood on it at all:
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iansane
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 10:32 am Post subject: |
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| For some reason I really don't like that car... |
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't either. And that's exactly what I don't want my car to look like. |
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DBL_TKE
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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IDK, I really like the look of that car. 700WHP and high 9's in the quarter is also quite appealing.
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Schultzy89GTA
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| Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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I couldn't find any diagrams of that other setup Jon.
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iansane
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| DBL_TKE wrote: | | IDK, I really like the look of that car. 700WHP and high 9's in the quarter is also quite appealing. |
The power and times are nothing to scoff at but I would've thought for the time/money invested in that kind of a build (replaced the entire interior/engine/trans/diff/etc) that tucking the turbos up in the battery trays to run no cowl or a smaller cowl would've been simple. Meh. Impressive nonetheless! |
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Dewey316
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| iansane wrote: | | I would've thought for the time/money invested in that kind of a build (replaced the entire interior/engine/trans/diff/etc) that tucking the turbos up in the battery trays to run no cowl or a smaller cowl would've been simple. |
or at least used v-band clamps instead of the schmucks speacial hose clamps. |
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blue89
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QwkTrip
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:11 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for trying, guys. I appreciate the help.  |
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Twilightoptics
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Dewey316 wrote: |
or at least used v-band clamps instead of the schmucks speacial hose clamps. |
He uses proper T-Bolt clamps on the pressure side. You only need a hose clamp for the filter inlet.
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