Thread: Flat colors...will they go "out of style" or are they pretty much here to stay?

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Yeah, 8 stack Hilborn/Crower and Enderle "hat" injection were very common in the 50's and 60's. Of course sprint cars have used Hilborn mechanical injection for 40 years or more. However, that kind of fuel injection is designed to operate at wide open throttle (WOT) and was rather temperamental and glitchy for street use. So, relatively recently they started converting Hilborn mechanical units to electronic. And more currently companies like Hilborn, Inglese, Kinsler, Imagine, and Force EFI have started to actually make/manufacture Hilborn style 8 stack electronic fuel injection for use on the street. They have proven to be quite reliable and efficient, just like factory EFI on passenger cars. Many are self learning and require no laptop tuning. The main drawback of these systems is cost. They range from about $5000 to as much as $11000.


Tom

Love the look of 8 stacks,but I could not aford that when I was building hotrods in the late 50's into the early 60's,did findly get 2x4 set up for my 292Y-block.
One thing that always seems odd to me is statemints like ["50's/60's quasi-old school look of flat or saten paint"],that was not a look at at all then,the plan was alway shiny,but a few never made it to shiny,yet no one I knew ever thought of there not yet shiny primer as a finish or even good looking or cool.but was going to be when the shiny got put on!.
The point is flat is not how it was to be,thats just some 70 or 80 guy or younger not knowing what he was looking at. I guess it's like some one saying who was the first pinstriper,roman chairits had pinstriping and ya can go older then that too.

all i know is we never built them butt ugly on purpose. and being a paint primer is not a top coat