I received yet another injector hat in the mail, this one is a bug catcher that came with a bunch of other parts which we will be able to use. Packing was not great, and the items were not in as good of condition as hoped. Fee-Bay is always a crap shoot.

We had a number of contributors through out these to gatherings

With the addition of the bug catcher the workbench is being taken over by injector hats and carburetor scoops.

The Enderle BarnDoor has now been sold

and the bug catcher will be put up for sale. The alcohol carburetor will be held on to as plan “B”

Between Ray and Steve we were able to come up with plan for the spacers needed for both the bottom pulley and the idler pulley

The bottom pulley was fairly interesting as a number of things had to happen

, the pulley had to be moved ½ inch out from the hub to get the belt to ride in the center of the pulley

, by doing this we lost the register for the fuel pump drive, also with the new crank hub the stock retaining washer was to small in diameter to reach the outside diameter of the new crank hub. So Ray machined a new retaining washer that had the outside dimension of the crank hub, The washer was stepped so that it would fit inside the crank hub.

With the outside dimension the same as the hub and sitting proud of the hub this became the register for the fuel pump drive.

It goes together like this

The Idler pulley was a lot easier, all it required was a 5/16 spacer to get the belt into the correct position

I have been told a number of times that my gold colored valve covers are not everyone’s favorite, I happen to think that they go nicely with the gold leaf stripping on the body of the dragster.

An informal vote was taken amongst the car nuts and it has been decided to go to a set of fabricated aluminum valve covers, what do you think?

Oil was added to the gear housing on the blower and the snout bolted into place, Jack did the honors.

The four inch spacer has been machined in three areas, material was removed from the front top of the spacer to acuminate the retro outlet of the blower (A retro blower has it’s outlet further forward than a standard blower which is supposed to increase the efficiency of the blower).

The front outside was machined to accept a burst panel frame. The current BDS manifold has a pop off valve at the rear which is not acceptable by either NHRA or IHRA. Lenny installed the panel

The bottom of the center rib was machined out to allow for better flow inside the manifold from front to rear

In the vein of reasoning that nothing can remain untouched the Birdcatcher injector hat will not remain untouched. The barrel valve that was on it will be switched to a “K” valve, by Jack and Lenny. (Please no e-mails about the alignment of the “K” valve lever to the shutter lever on the injector hat)

The hoses that were on the birdcatcher have been removed and new hard lines installed

The oil filter lines have been “protected”

So here is the finial fitment check

Plans are now moving forward to the mounting of the pump. The pump will be remote mounted and driven by a belt from the bottom pulley. This pump came with the stuff from Fee-Bay. It is a Hillborn 150A-0 pump which turns out to be way too small for this application. The remote mount however appears that it will work out with some modifications.

A new Enderle 80A-1 has been purchased and the Hillborn remote mount will be modified to accept the Enderle Pump.