Re: [Amc-list] Puff the Magic Wrambler

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I can work out the details if I go for it.
I'm tyring to figure out how to either talk myself into sending this guy $2150 or talk myself out of sending this guy $2150! he is being very patient, he does not appear to want to sell, he bout it for himself and his wife blew a gasket! So to keep the piece he is selling it.
   He offered it to me first because I asked him where he had found a used one when he posted he had bought it!

I've thought of several scenarios.
 One is to trim a nice outlined hole has needed to let the blower show.
Two is cowl hood. 
Three is to outline the blower and install a large scoop such has Carcraft used, then let the blower pulley and snout peak out from the front of the scoop. kind of like a matchbox look.

I really should just walk away from this. The American runs great as-is.
Hesco will be zero help tuning it I'd bet. 
It is complete, but I'll also bet it will need finessed to get it right...

Anyone have any thoughts on who I'd need to coerce into helping get a roots blown 4.0L to run right?

If I had not bought the WJ, I'd be seriously interested in installing it in the XJ instead. I'd love to install it on a DD!
Much more fun on a daily basis!!!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>
> Cart Craft stuck a hood scoop on their Rambler project. The article had 
> all sorts of tips on how to get it properly centered. I think the scoop 
> they used was one of the Hemi scoops but you could look at what a 
> company like Harwood offers and pick one that suites you.
> 
> Matt
> 
> Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The issue is that this is a roots type supercharger that sits atop the intake.
> > The unit I have the chance to purchase is designed to go on a TJ. I'm pretty 
> sure it will take a cowl hood to clear it. I wish this was anytime next month so 
> I knew exactly what the surgeon either did or will do and what my recovery time 
> or lack there of may be! Hard to believe we are talking 17 months of this and 
> I'm still wondering.
> >   Anyway, I haven't seen a source for a cowl hood for an American. If I don't 
> recover paying labor rates to have one built would be quite expensive. If i can 
> do it myself I can see in my minds eye what it would look like.
> > i would buy one of the steel cowl hood sections that are available, then 
> remove the nose area of the americans hood where the original hood "ridge" turns 
> into the inset for the "A" emblem. That way the square ridge could be removed 
> instead of having it changing over to the single or no ridgeof the cowl hood. 
> Yeah, if your wondering I can do all this if I take my time and am healthy.
> >    What I would realy love to do would be to just install a S/Crambler 
> hoodscoop on a stock hood. But the pulley of the Charger looks to be too high to 
> clear the hood :[ One of the neat things of the Hesco designed charger is the 
> throttle body sits directly above the valve cover at the rear of the engine 
> facing forward. With a hoodscoop it would be awesomely easy to build a box to 
> ram outside air into the TB.
> >    As you can tell, I've been thinking of the "issues" with going forward with 
> this. I may indeed be buying this supercharger. The hood is the main issue. I 
> have plans in place for the trans and rear issues.
> >    I don't currently have the ability to do the body work, don't think I can 
> hold a spray gun or run a sander. The idea of running the car hoodless is 
> unappealing. leaving the supercharger perched on top of the pile of unfinished 
> other stuff even less appealing. Oh, I think I should indeed walk away from the 
> checkbook, much as it pains me to do so.
> >    Frank, As for changing the name to "Huff the magic Wrambler", well, there's 
> no romance in that! Puff was a magic dragon, Huff leaves me seeing someone with 
> paint flakes on their face, a spray can and a paper bag to "huff" the fumes 
> from, nah. Puff it will stay!
> > --
> > Mark Price
> > Morgantown, WV
> > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> > 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
> > " Chronic Pain Hurts"
> > 
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
> >> " From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
> >> " 
> >> " Who said anything about fiberglass? Cut the hood, bend it up, weld in some 
> new 
> >> sides and a filler panel in the rear. No cracks as long as the filler used to 
> >> smooth it out is thin! Otherwise give it more of a race car look and just 
> rivet 
> >> the scoop on top without trying to blend it in. A seam all the way around 
> looks 
> >> a lot better than a crack! Make a gasket for it and the seam will look even 
> >> better. Painted to match the car would look good. Hey, get fancy and make a 
> >> reinforcement around the hole and use Dzus fasteners to hold the scoop on! 
> Then 
> >> you can take it off for shows...
> >>
> >> late thought - the area at the base of the windshield is a high
> >> pressure area.  why not go through the firewall and tap into the cowl
> >> intake invisibly?  unless you want the bling factor...
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