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by parisian62 » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:59 am

Now that's a tidy engine bay. Welcome to the Forum FJ Maniac.

Anyone recognise the carb airfilters? Aussiespeed?

Asked the owner today parisian62 he custom made them himself used
a piece of 6 inch alloy pipe then a thick piece of alloy on top, welded em and
macined both the fins and the slots at the front then polished them, they are mounted onto
two, two barrel hitachi carbs, the carbys are mounted to a Thomas Intake manifold.
It has some awesome looking stainless headers too which adds to the general look of the engine bay...

he custom made them himself

He did a top job.

Stewart

A lot of home made stuff on this one.

WOW

You'll have to explain the details on what I'm looking at Jeff.

Stewart

parisian62 wrote: WOW

You'll have to explain the details on what I'm looking at Jeff.

Stewart

I'm guessing????? a 371 GM blower with the fins milled off Plenty of custom billet work as well, similar coil position as mine we must have read the same old 60's hotrod magazines where they claimed its better to isolate the coil away from heat (I just did it to show off my coil holder )

I'd be interested in the details of this as well.

Mick

I love the little rocker cover vent that looks like a mini bug-catcher

I spotted the Bear Rock Rodders badge on the firewall of the engine bay of the "mystery" grey and googled the name hoping to find out more about this FJ.

But like so much in this world now there was a facebook listing I couldn't open on my P.C. because I'm a dinasour not on facebook......BUGGER

Hope more details get posted here

Mick

From their FB (facebook) page Bear Rock Rodders - a small social group of Hot Rod, Rat Rod, Classic, Muscle, custom car/bike enthusiasts that meet on a regular basis to bring you The Annual "Palmer Hot Rod Street Party" on the October Long Weekend every Year, Sept 30th this year in Palmer SA.

There is some cool old club run pics on the page.. and a few custom FB/EKs

Couple more, no pics of that FJ but plenty of choppped stuff for you

Thanks YelloYoot

Those chopped utes are cool, my daughter's partner recently got transferred to Adelaide (army) so I better make a point of getting over there for a look around

Mick

parisian62 wrote: WOW

You'll have to explain the details on what I'm looking at Jeff.

Stewart

Choppedfan is on the money, supercharged grey, home made intake directing air over the motor to the blower,
home made sideplate & breather tube, home made breather attached to a vintage rocker cover,
I'm not sure whats up with the distributor, its hidden by that intake, but the dissy cap is very high.
This guy has put a lot of hours into this.
I have no idea why he decided to have the intake scoop on the other side from the blower,
would have thought there would be plenty of clearance under a FJ bonnet to have it on top.

Cheers
Jeff

From Rods Rock n Roll this year:



And from the 2010 FX FJ Nationals



Great thread ...

Thommo wrote:

parisian62 wrote: WOW

You'll have to explain the details on what I'm looking at Jeff.

Stewart

Choppedfan is on the money, supercharged grey, home made intake directing air over the motor to the blower,
home made sideplate & breather tube, home made breather attached to a vintage rocker cover,
I'm not sure whats up with the distributor, its hidden by that intake, but the dissy cap is very high.
This guy has put a lot of hours into this.
I have no idea why he decided to have the intake scoop on the other side from the blower,
would have thought there would be plenty of clearance under a FJ bonnet to have it on top.

Cheers
Jeff

He's gone that far maybe it's also running a magneto??

Mick

That appears to be a suspious copper coil hanging off the oil pressure sender on the blown FJ. Remote pressure gauge or full-flow oiling?

Cheers,
Harv.