My latest contraption

Posted By: hemi-itis

My latest contraption - 03/12/15 06:42 AM

In the past,whever I needed to remove the blower from the intake I would need 3 friends come over and "man" the serp belts to lift the blower off and set it into the cart.Kudos and thanks to Nitro Buzzard Ken for hooking me up with an "I" beam and trolly to go with it.Ken also installed the beam on the ceiling and fabricated the brackets to mount the Harbor Freight $50 25000 lb winch to the trolley and the bracket to hold the supporting straps attached to the blower.
I can now R&R the blower myself

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 06:43 AM

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Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 06:45 AM

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Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 06:47 AM

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Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 06:48 AM

HUT,,HuT

Posted By: slammedR/T

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 06:54 AM

That is pretty bad a$$

Posted By: MR_P_BODY

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 01:47 PM

I'm surprised you didnt use a cherry picker and your
engine leveler... but that looks good.. but I guess
you'll pull the engine with that set up... I was gonna
put one of those in my shop but I wouldnt use it

Posted By: Challenger 1

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 02:33 PM

Nice and necessary when you want to work by yourself. Those stupid fenders get in the way huh.

A skinny dragster is way more friendly to work on, although it still takes 2 of us the lift the blower off.

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 03:20 PM

Mr. P,it's for the blower only.I would not lift my iron headed hemi with that,It's a Chinese winch

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 03:24 PM

I don't know how they delt with them "tender fenders" back in the day. I have seen elbow marks on some light weight fenders

Posted By: DaveRS23

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 03:26 PM

I use a home made bar similar to yours with a pair of serpentine belts to lift my blower with the cherry picker. I made it to where I can pull the blower with the hood on. Not much room to lift it clear of the studs, but just enough.

Posted By: MR_P_BODY

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 03:27 PM

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Mr. P,it's for the blower only.I would not lift my iron headed hemi with that,It's a Chinese winch

I have the same winch.. it'll lift your engine easy..
I lifted my diesel engine out of my crawler loader
with it

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 03:29 PM

I used the straight edge on every thing,looked good to me.

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Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 03:41 PM

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Mr. P,it's for the blower only.I would not lift my iron headed hemi with that,It's a Chinese winch

I have the same winch.. it'll lift your engine easy..
I lifted my diesel engine out of my crawler loader
with it

Really???? I wouldn't trust it,heavy cherry picker for my nerves

Plus it would be a "dead lift",wouldn't think the winch could do it

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 04:07 PM

Also started to install my new fabricated covers

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 04:09 PM

Ditched the stud mount shocks and added Vi-king DA's all the way around.I don't know why they did the inverted shock towers back in the day instead of doing it this way

Posted By: MR_P_BODY

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 04:12 PM

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Mr. P,it's for the blower only.I would not lift my iron headed hemi with that,It's a Chinese winch

I have the same winch.. it'll lift your engine easy..
I lifted my diesel engine out of my crawler loader
with it

Really???? I wouldn't trust it,heavy cherry picker for my nerves Plus it would be a "dead lift",wouldn't think the winch could do it

I did use a block to double the load but I mainly did
it to slow down the lift being I was working by my
self and had to make sure everything was clearing
during the lift... but it would have lifted it straight

Posted By: GY3

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 04:14 PM

Are you having the rotors relined?

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 04:52 PM

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Are you having the rotors relined?

I don't bother installing new strips.Once they find their clearance they stay like that unless some junk gets injested.

Posted By: GY3

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 05:13 PM

Sorry, kinda ignorant on the blower thing, what do you do to R&R one then?

Posted By: FastmOp

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 08:08 PM

Is this the slowest Blown Hemi in the world ?

Posted By: Bruce

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 08:27 PM

Nice setup for removing your blower. I would be more concerned with the strength of the ceiling beams, etc. Wouldn't want to find out it is too weak the hard way.

Just a thought from another Hemi lover.

Posted By: mickm

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 09:04 PM

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In the past,whever I needed to remove the blower from the intake I would need 3 friends come over and "man" the serp belts to lift the blower off and set it into the cart.Kudos and thanks to Nitro Buzzard Ken for hooking me up with an "I" beam and trolly to go with it.Ken also installed the beam on the ceiling and fabricated the brackets to mount the Harbor Freight $50 25000 lb winch to the trolley and the bracket to hold the supporting straps attached to the blower.
I can now R&R the blower myself

damn! how heavy is that setup??

Posted By: Clanton

Re: My latest contraption - 03/12/15 09:10 PM

I carry my 90# blower,carbs thru 4 doorways to the garage,put the blower on a mat on the fender,stand on the inner frame rail,waterpump and lift the blower on the intake.I need the exercise.I am glad you can put a nice lift like that in.

Posted By: FastmOp

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 02:18 AM

I was just busting your chops. That Thing Is Old School tuff.

Posted By: Sport440

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 03:12 AM

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Mr. P,it's for the blower only.I would not lift my iron headed hemi with that,It's a Chinese winch

Nice set up for what your doing.

Though the winch is most likely strong enough to pull the motor too, I would want to know what and how the

I Beam is attached to before I would try it.

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 04:45 AM

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Sorry, kinda ignorant on the blower thing, what do you do to R&R one then?

unless there is an issue,street blowers last quite a while.
I had mine "gone through" when I found the front gears messed up.

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Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 04:55 AM

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Is this the slowest Blown Hemi in the world ?

For a 3900 lb car that gets driven a few thousand miles a year it could be one of the slowest I have not tried more than 10 lbs of boost just yet. 113 mph in the 1/8 and 140 in the 1/4 almost respectable. I'm in the process of installing a racepak,then I won't be so nervous about throwing more boost at it.

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 05:00 AM

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Nice setup for removing your blower. I would be more concerned with the strength of the ceiling beams, etc. Wouldn't want to find out it is too weak the hard way.
Just a thought from another Hemi lover.

It's fine for lifting the blower,I wouldn't lift the engine.Bet this iron headed hemi with the blower,carbs & scoop weigh 1000 lbs

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 05:05 AM

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I carry my 90# blower,carbs thru 4 doorways to the garage,put the blower on a mat on the fender,stand on the inner frame rail,waterpump and lift the blower on the intake.I need the exercise.I am glad you can put a nice lift like that in.

Your a brute Mike,my back would break if I tried lifting it

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 05:07 AM

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I was just busting your chops. That Thing Is Old School tuff.

I'm the slow poke!!

Posted By: Clanton

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 02:32 PM

Nice garage,I am just getting around to drywall,lighting.

I have an engine leveler from HF but the process is just too slow for me.I hope the weather keeps up so we can be ready to have some fun.

Posted By: DusterDave

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 04:19 PM

I remember wrenching my back when I tried to carefully set my 8-71 down over the aluminum studs, by myself. My back was hurting for a few days.

Posted By: Clanton

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 04:40 PM

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I remember wrenching my back when I tried to carefully set my 8-71 down over the aluminum studs, by myself. My back was hurting for a few days.

I did heavy lifting for 30 yrs at work so now that I am retired[56yrs old]I need to use muscles or loose them but I understand others working smart not hard.

Posted By: Clanton

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 05:23 PM

Hemi itis did you find some intake studs that work for you?

Posted By: actionange

Re: My latest contraption - 03/13/15 11:20 PM

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Is this the slowest Blown Hemi in the world ?

For a 3900 lb car that gets driven a few thousand miles a year it could be one of the slowest I have not tried more than 10 lbs of boost just yet. 113 mph in the 1/8 and 140 in the 1/4 almost respectable. I'm in the process of installing a racepak,then I won't be so nervous about throwing more boost at it.

Ive got a question.
What am I doing wrong? my car ran 9.88@ 136.40 with a 1.37 60 foot. And it weighs 3750 race ready.
Does that blower add top end mph to go 3.5 mph faster at 3900 lbs?
Maybe I'll have to get me one of them...

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/14/15 05:20 AM

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Is this the slowest Blown Hemi in the world ?

For a 3900 lb car that gets driven a few thousand miles a year it could be one of the slowest I have not tried more than 10 lbs of boost just yet. 113 mph in the 1/8 and 140 in the 1/4 almost respectable. I'm in the process of installing a racepak,then I won't be so nervous about throwing more boost at it.

Ive got a question.
What am I doing wrong? my car ran 9.88@ 136.40 with a 1.37 60 foot. And it weighs 3750 race ready.
Does that blower add top end mph to go 3.5 mph faster at 3900 lbs?
Maybe I'll have to get me one of them...

My numbers are "so far " with just 10 lbs of boost should go up at the boost gets increased

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/15/15 02:57 AM

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Is this the slowest Blown Hemi in the world ?

For a 3900 lb car that gets driven a few thousand miles a year it could be one of the slowest I have not tried more than 10 lbs of boost just yet. 113 mph in the 1/8 and 140 in the 1/4 almost respectable. I'm in the process of installing a racepak,then I won't be so nervous about throwing more boost at it.

Ive got a question.
What am I doing wrong? my car ran 9.88@ 136.40 with a 1.37 60 foot. And it weighs 3750 race ready.
Does that blower add top end mph to go 3.5 mph faster at 3900 lbs?
Maybe I'll have to get me one of them...

Ange,your not doin anything wrong,you have that car flyin for what your working with. I've had this combo for many years and just haven't turned the wick up,,,,,,yet

This season I will see some new bestestezz

Posted By: hemi-itis

Re: My latest contraption - 03/15/15 03:01 AM

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Hemi itis did you find some intake studs that work for you?

Mike,I was told that installing the manifold over the 16 studs is nearly impossible. Went with ARP bolts