Old School TUNNEL RAM on 440 .can you drive on street ?

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I ran one on my '70 SF when I was in high school. Two 4160's from j/yard c-bodies and away we went. I learned mucho about tuning holley's during that project. I do remember having to do something with the vac. secondaries to get them to work correctly together from carb to carb. With a stick it was very streetable.

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http://holley.com/20-73.asp



thats all ya need...

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Once you get the carbs sorted out you'll wonder why everyone doesn't run one. I'll never go back to a regular manifold again.

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Oh, but I couldn't agree more.

My wife's daily driver for years was a tunnel rammed 440 Cordoba LS. Work, groceries, you name it.




I worked in construction and for years had a 440 tunnel rammed work truck, everybody thought I was fibbin until I popped the hood, or floored the gas pedal....







My work truck had a 268 Comp Cam and a STOCK stall converter, it had more bottom end balls than could be believed, it would ROAST the back tires while towing a 1937 Plymouth on a car trailer, I know from experience.

I've had a ton of tunnel rammed 440 vehicles, never had a problem with them and I would truly be hesitant to run a single four barrel on a 400 again.

My Coupe was a 440 tunnel ram when I had it on the road, I drove it all over all the time, it was my only insured vehicle.

Lots of hood clearance too.

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Once you get the carbs sorted out you'll wonder why everyone doesn't run one. I'll never go back to a regular manifold again.

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Oh, but I couldn't agree more.

My wife's daily driver for years was a tunnel rammed 440 Cordoba LS. Work, groceries, you name it.




I worked in construction and for years had a 440 tunnel rammed work truck, everybody thought I was fibbin until I popped the hood, or floored the gas pedal....







My work truck had a 268 Comp Cam and a STOCK stall converter, it had more bottom end balls than could be believed, it would ROAST the back tires while towing a 1937 Plymouth on a car trailer, I know from experience.

I've had a ton of tunnel rammed 440 vehicles, never had a problem with them and I would truly be hesitant to run a single four barrel on a 400 again.

My Coupe was a 440 tunnel ram when I had it on the road, I drove it all over all the time, it was my only insured vehicle.

Lots of hood clearance too.

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Very Kewl!!!
What tunnel ram were you using?
I like the looks of of it!

Mark

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I will keep everything under the hood , nothing poking out ..

Sounds like its not such a dumb idea ?

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lottsa positive answers here. even a blind man can see that.
if that ws my car, i'd be lookin to put a t-ramed 392 hemi in it.
just a thought.

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Early on I had a old Hemi, then I started pricing what it would cost to build one with enough power to push the tank ..

Decided to go with old reliable ..Wish someone would adopt it but doubt that will happen so, its time to stuff more money in it and drive it

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the one in the pics is a Weiand three two barrel tunnel ram converted to dual 4s. The top had dams installed too, much like the Direct Connection Engine Manual pages....

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CrazyMoparGuy

I know I'm resorecting an old post but can you give me some more info in the Weiand? I want to do the same thing with mine for my 63 Plymouth.
What carbs did you use?

BTW It looks sweet, up till now I have not seen one installed.

Thanks
John

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the one in the pics is a Weiand three two barrel tunnel ram converted to dual 4s. The top had dams installed too, much like the Direct Connection Engine Manual pages....

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CrazyMoparGuy

I know I'm resorecting an old post but can you give me some more info in the Weiand? I want to do the same thing with mine for my 63 Plymouth.
What carbs did you use?

BTW It looks sweet, up till now I have not seen one installed.

Thanks
John

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Once you get the carbs sorted out you'll wonder why everyone doesn't run one. I'll never go back to a regular manifold again.

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Oh, but I couldn't agree more.

My wife's daily driver for years was a tunnel rammed 440 Cordoba LS. Work, groceries, you name it.






I worked in construction and for years had a 440 tunnel rammed work truck, everybody thought I was fibbin until I popped the hood, or floored the gas pedal....







My work truck had a 268 Comp Cam and a STOCK stall converter, it had more bottom end balls than could be believed, it would ROAST the back tires while towing a 1937 Plymouth on a car trailer, I know from experience.

I've had a ton of tunnel rammed 440 vehicles, never had a problem with them and I would truly be hesitant to run a single four barrel on a 400 again.

My Coupe was a 440 tunnel ram when I had it on the road, I drove it all over all the time, it was my only insured vehicle.

Lots of hood clearance too.

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I know this is an old post, but I love it! I too would be skeptical if somebody told me that truck had a tunnel rammed 440 in it..... I like looking at reference resto hemis and what not as much as anybody, but it has gotten kinda old over the years when that's all you see. give me a story about this truck or the Cordoba anyday over the Hemi Cuda convertible.

I have never ran a tunnel ram, much because I figured it would be a huge headache to get them running right, but props to anybody with the balls to run a tunnel ram on a daily driver...Especially a work truck and a daily driver for the wife

reading through this thread has gotten me interested and almost(I said almost) makes me want to try to put one on my Swinger 340 as I get it done

Well like I said, thanks for all the info from all the guys who provided it about running a tunnel ram and setting them up. Very interesting read about real world Mopars that I wouldn't be afraid to drive for fear of having a nervous breakdown over getting a scratch.