Ok...I'm well into my weber conversion. I've decided to go with a DGV 32/36 mostly because I'm getting one for free. If I need more performance, it comes with a kit for synchronous opening, instead of progressive, and as my motor is pretty much stock...that's enough.
There is an awful lot of room inside my engine bay, and I've been thinking about installing a wee bit of ram air. I have a few options for routing the intake.
1. I can run the intake pipe to the radiator mounting flange, pop a hole in that, and stick an air horn behind the grill. Easy, but a bit of fiddlyness if I have to squish the intake through a long and skinny hole in the rad flange. I can probably weld a wider flange on the driver's side, and offset the rad to get more room
2. I can run the intake to the fender or below the grill. Right now the truck is ridiculously tall (PO did some weird stuff) and there's plenty of room below. But I am planning to lower the front a bit, and that might get in the way. I've never run the plenum to the fender before, and I'm not sure I like the idea of potential dust and spray from the tire.
3. Today I remembered the old headlight air horns from the NASCAR heydays. I remember that some guys with quad-light cars would remove the inner set of lights and hook up air induction tubes. I have a 62 four eye ute, and I was thinking this might be sort of cool. I've been mulling over what it would take to convert the other headlights to dual-filiment halogens. I'm pretty sure it's just a minor mounting difference and a connector swap. I'd put in a relay via the headlight switch for the increased draw. Would this be cool? I might even just use ONE of the four headlights, and use the one on the passenger side for something else cool...I dunno, maybe a goldfish bowl?
Any other opinions, Ideas? I have the materials and skills to fabricate any size and/or shape airbox, and I'm planning to run the ram to the airbox, through a filter, and then via 3" to the carb plenum.
Flounderguts
