Thread: One Way To Build A '32 Hyboy

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Don & Steve,
Thanks, there a lot of advantages to putting all this stuff in the frame. Just keeping it away from all the elements and crap, besides not seeing all that stuff. Of course this is just my opinion.

I'm hijacking my own thread but I thought I would share this. I'm still thinking about the Ardun project so I ordered one of those plastic motors. I have used them before and it is really helpful when you are having to pull it out every other day. I called this guy on a Sat. night just to leave a message to ask questions about the replica he makes. It seems he just got back from Europe that night and stopped buy his shop on the way home. We start talking about his motor and he start telling me this story. He asked me what I was going to use for an intake, and I said I wasn't sure yet but would probably build fuel injection for it, something along the lines of the old Algon style, (spelling). He asked me if I watched Nascar, I said yes. He asked me if I knew who Zora Arkas Duntov was, yes, did you know he also was instrumental in working on the small block Chevy, yes, he said I'm going to send you a manifold that Nascar uses today. I said O.K.
Well the plastic motor shows up and the manifold, I bolt it together and guess what, the manifold is so close to fitting perfectly, with some small messaging it would work. I'm not going to put a 4 barrel carburetor on a V12 but the coincidence is pretty strange.
Ken