Grease 'em and re-use 'em. For valve covers, glue to the tins, grease the head surface. While the heads are being machined, buff down the gasket surface to get rid of the rough cast.
It’s always good to see Uncle Luke. Ever since he came up with the 40 mpg carburetor I worry that the electric car companies and oil companies will kidnap him or put out a contract on him.
@@moabman6803 I though of making an custom intake for a tractor for optimized power at around 1600rpm (the most torgue of avarage tractor diesel) Turns out the intake runners would have to around 2meters long.. About the lenght of the one on the video! bet it has a massive spike under 2k if he ever dynoes it
@@moabman6803 Found the video, looks like they got the max power at 3600rpm, the intake needs to be longer the lower you want the power :DD When i was planning the tractor intake, i was thinking of routing the pipes over and around the whole engine a turn or two to get the lenght xD The Holley's april fools video th-cam.com/video/y9IERetMoL4/w-d-xo.html
*this concept was coined back in late 70's either Playboy or Hotrod Magazine or Car Magazine* the artists wrote that a carburetor spacer added horsepower then the other picture had showed car with high stack of spacers just like you did. either you found the article or creative people think alike and coincidentally/accidentally you thought of the same thing. back then i owned a '66 Corvertible Corvette. Super Shops was my racing place to go and that's where i learned about it. *Thanx for proving that theory*
This is hilarious, and it works! Do you need a vacuum gauge or a church organ pipe-tuner to dial this in? The zip-ties made me think you had installed those climbing spikes like they used to put on utility poles, in order to facilitate unsticking a stuck choke!
@@turkeyboyjh1 A large vacuum chamber isn’t what you want for quick throttle response. You have to fill that chamber with air before the engine can pull it in and respond. Short runner individual intakes are the quickest throttle response, but they tend be mostly for high rpm power.
@@turkeyboyjh1 This isn't an intake. It's a carb spacer. He's still using the dual plane underneath it, so the runner length didn't change. The scavenging is going to be pretty much the same. Now if he did this again using an EFI lower intake, so that he had 8 separate pipes converging to one at the carb, then it'd be an intake with 5' runners.
That's pretty amusing Luke and thanks for making me aware of the band Skorned. I thought you were playing Alice N Chains in the background. Reckon I'm 7 years late hearing about the band. LOL! 😂😂😂
You definitely have to follow up on this, because when you think about it, it was the increased atomization that gave the lawn mower carburetor it's amazing performance.
Back when I raced oval dirt cars I always kept a stick of chap stick for carburetor gaskets. Used it on the metering block gaskets when doing jet or power valve changes.
One of the many things I appreciate about you Luke is that when fabrication happens.. You guys are using tools a lot of us have.. None of the CNC waterjet, Plasma cutter or farming it out.. Real stuff!
Luke's videos are always interesting, and out of the box. Extremely interesting video. Thanks for the fun Luke. ( The tower of power! ) Seems fitting..
@@poweredbyford87 I used 4 S&S carbs (aftermarket performance carb for Harley's) on a 350 in a 79 Chevy pickup. Getting the synchronization down was a bitch and almost made me abandon the whole idea.
A friend adapted a 3 bbl Weber from a Porsche 911 to a custom 96” Harley Shovelhead. He had to do a fair amount of tuning after completing fabrication of an intake that mounted to an S&S Super G manifold. Worked out pretty well. Only issue he wasn’t able to overcome was the lack of a choke on the Weber, requiring liberal use of the accelerator pump for starting, and an unusually long warmup period. I bought the bike a few years ago, but he bought it back after his wife died.
God speed on power tour. Make sure you have air-rights whenever parking and don't go sideways, your carb might end up in a different zip code than the car!
Cloud harvester edition water injection tunnel ram. Now all you need are four individual lawn mower carburetors to go on top of each tube... Quad down-draft setup because why not! Thanks for the laughs... I'll keep watching. ✌️😎👍
Oh you are going on Power Tour with it like that? What FUN!! Looks great, as stated below, I love the fact that you didn't snip the tails off the zip ties.. super classy!
It was great meeting you and yer dad on tour this week. You've road-proven another garage idea! I'm itching to get The Carb Cheater setup on my Skylark. Thanks Luke
But how will you hook up the PCV? :) I grease my carb gaskets too, they work forever and seal better in my opinion. I have to imagine the fuel mix is delayed some with that, when you turn it off a lot of fuel will run down the pipes into the motor, but when you floor it I expect it would go very lean at first then flood when you let off. Still, it's ridiculous which means it was time well spent. Well, your time not mine...
Also want to see this dyno tested, interested in how the thermodynamics work, the cooling effect of the long intake could improve density and give more power? Not practical in this form but food for thought…
Hilarious experiment. That works way better then I though it would. Love Mavericks. My first car was a 74 Maverick with 302 and currently own a 69.5/early 70 Maverick.
Help me name this abomination!
Lightning rod? Periscope? ..... gotta be a better name out there!!!
Tower of BRRRRAAAPBylon
The "Torquer Snorkel", or "Torque Snorkel" for short.
Tower of Power
The Pericarb
Outtake
Not clipping the zipties was a fancy touch... If the lawnmower carb never finds its way onto this I'm gonna be super bummed out 😂
AGREE 1000%
I don't have OCD except for when it comes to uncut zip ties😂😂
It’s the equivalent of a mullet for a car
how about 4 of them, off a B&S 2 cylinder........
Ahaha I did that to a 1"hose I had running under the car for 3-4' under the floor that the pcv was hooked to.
It was like that for about 2yrs 😅
I’m sure someone has said it already but this is taking your carb game to new heights.
I don't know which is more impressive.....the height of the carburetor or the solution to the throttle cable!
Ba Dun Dun Tsst!
My Dad would have liked that one
Yeah, who needs a supercharger when the intake has enough back pressure to create a boost off throttle.
I once did a really tall tunnel ram with as many carb spacers as we had. This tops it😂
AT LAST,,,AT LONG LAST,, somebody who actually knows how to properly prepare a gasket.!!! Excellent dude. ✌️👍🇬🇧
Grease 'em and re-use 'em. For valve covers, glue to the tins, grease the head surface. While the heads are being machined, buff down the gasket surface to get rid of the rough cast.
The fancy way is using Hylomar on gaskets. Kinda like using grease except developed by Rolls-Royce during the war 🇬🇧
Awesome video Luke! I’ve hit my head on the hood checking carb settings, never the ceiling. You’re a pioneer brother
read smokey yunicks book, its full of stuff like this
This is cutting edge. You lads should hear from NASA any day.
Any day now, Houston Center about to call you up.
Hold the phone I got SpaceX on the line
Once he learns cgi he will have surpassed nasa
When nasa has to do the jet change from the space station
Pretty sure alien's has their hat in the ring, he got their attention
It’s always good to see Uncle Luke. Ever since he came up with the 40 mpg carburetor I worry that the electric car companies and oil companies will kidnap him or put out a contract on him.
Ah now you just need a light on it, so you know where you parked
@@wobblysauce DOT might force him to put clearance lights on it!!
@@rearspeaker6364the FAA may require a flashing red light too!
The magic is his carb cheater. And it's a very similar concept to the old computer carbs from the early 80s
The oil companies will put a stop to him.😊
I know I'm not the only one who would LOVE to see this dyno tested. Oh, and I just noticed your improvised glove compartment lock 😅
Its pretty classy!
At lower rpms it probably gives about 50% more torque
@@moabman6803 I though of making an custom intake for a tractor for optimized power at around 1600rpm (the most torgue of avarage tractor diesel)
Turns out the intake runners would have to around 2meters long.. About the lenght of the one on the video!
bet it has a massive spike under 2k if he ever dynoes it
@@NuffMan_ Ya holley dynoed the April fools intake they made it it had a huge torque spike off the bat. The results are on the internet somewhere
@@moabman6803 Found the video, looks like they got the max power at 3600rpm, the intake needs to be longer the lower you want the power :DD
When i was planning the tractor intake, i was thinking of routing the pipes over and around the whole engine a turn or two to get the lenght xD
The Holley's april fools video
th-cam.com/video/y9IERetMoL4/w-d-xo.html
*this concept was coined back in late 70's either Playboy or Hotrod Magazine or Car Magazine* the artists wrote that a carburetor spacer added horsepower then the other picture had showed car with high stack of spacers just like you did. either you found the article or creative people think alike and coincidentally/accidentally you thought of the same thing. back then i owned a '66 Corvertible Corvette. Super Shops was my racing place to go and that's where i learned about it. *Thanx for proving that theory*
This is hilarious, and it works! Do you need a vacuum gauge or a church organ pipe-tuner to dial this in? The zip-ties made me think you had installed those climbing spikes like they used to put on utility poles, in order to facilitate unsticking a stuck choke!
Lmfao
You better put a flag on that intake, would be amazing.
This is the very reason why I watch this channel just to see what kind of experiment Luke can come up with😂😂
Me too! I thought Garage 54 had crazy off the wall ideas.
Me. To
Like radio or television broadcast antenna, this needs massive cable supports to handle the wind.
“Pick the car up and go sideways like a couch”
Hysterical 😂
😂🤣
This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen! I love it! Can't wait to see how it does over some miles.
Thank you! Your to kind! it looks like an abortion!
The throttle response was better than I thought it would be!
Longer intakes usually improve response because of the large vacuum chamber the intake acts like
@@turkeyboyjh1 A large vacuum chamber isn’t what you want for quick throttle response. You have to fill that chamber with air before the engine can pull it in and respond.
Short runner individual intakes are the quickest throttle response, but they tend be mostly for high rpm power.
@@turkeyboyjh1 This isn't an intake. It's a carb spacer. He's still using the dual plane underneath it, so the runner length didn't change. The scavenging is going to be pretty much the same. Now if he did this again using an EFI lower intake, so that he had 8 separate pipes converging to one at the carb, then it'd be an intake with 5' runners.
Ram air!
The Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things is gonna be stoked.
I’m really amazed at how much effort you guys put in. Cutting the flanges to the correct size, welding, grinding, it is really cool!
Hey now there was hammering too.
So is the carb properly altitude compensated? 😆
needs a light up there, so the airplanes don't fly into it. P.S: not the first one to make that comment.....
It’s Denver ready
He’ll have to plan his route around bridges and restricted airspace obviously
you know you have a long ram intake when you need an electric lift pump up to the carb, love it!
This kinda stuff is so much more cooler than just another revival. Keep it going Luke!
Amazing project Luke, wow, I can't wait to see the next installment on this wild idea!
I would love to see the torque curve this intake makes
That's pretty amusing Luke and thanks for making me aware of the band Skorned. I thought you were playing Alice N Chains in the background. Reckon I'm 7 years late hearing about the band. LOL! 😂😂😂
Won't be able to hit the drive thru at Sonic.
Whole new meaning of the word bird catcher.
"I'm hitting the tree with my carburetor" words I never expected to hear ever.
This is why I love this channel. You're always willing to try crazy s#!t. And the thing is, it always works!😊
Being an engineer helps with the success rate.
Definitely should be a guest on Engine Masters. For the lawnmower carb and this. This is great.
This is the most absurd thing I've seen. I love watching these videos I'm never not amazed at what Luke comes up with.
Best cold air intake I’ve seen in a while
“With our new paten pending space-age design, vapor lock will be a thing of the past”
I don't think anybody's had as much fun with a Maverick is you
You definitely have to follow up on this, because when you think about it, it was the increased atomization that gave the lawn mower carburetor it's amazing performance.
Back when I raced oval dirt cars I always kept a stick of chap stick for carburetor gaskets. Used it on the metering block gaskets when doing jet or power valve changes.
you need to match that with a set of mile tall zoomie headers XD
I love how your mind works, keep bringing your crazy creativity to TH-cam! I find crazy very entertaining!
One of the many things I appreciate about you Luke is that when fabrication happens.. You guys are using tools a lot of us have.. None of the CNC waterjet, Plasma cutter or farming it out.. Real stuff!
I love it!!! You rock Luke. I know we're not even into the first day of HRPT, but I can't wait for NEXT year too!
I’m so excited to see this on power tour!
Haha, yes...exactly:)
Luke's videos are always interesting, and out of the box. Extremely interesting video. Thanks for the fun Luke. ( The tower of power! ) Seems fitting..
YOU WIN the 2023 go big or go home prize...FOR SURE.
From Leo: I am almost jealous of how much fun you are having with that old FORD. I was too serious with my hot rod days.
I think a dual lawnmower carb setup would be interesting.
That's a good idea. Or six of the same one barrel lawn mower carbs to make a six barrel lol
@@poweredbyford87 I used 4 S&S carbs (aftermarket performance carb for Harley's) on a 350 in a 79 Chevy pickup. Getting the synchronization down was a bitch and almost made me abandon the whole idea.
Custom sixteen barrel with moped 12 mm carb and a shorter secondary with 22-26mm, progressive linked.
A backfire with those tubes full of perfectly mixed fuel and Air could be pretty interesting
The How's the air up there, tall guy? Of cars.
This is the exact reason I stay tuned to your channel! Watching from the hospital! 👊 ✌
Heal up fast!
Very mad max-ish. I would think that might be the equivalent of drip irrigation into the lower intake.😮
I had no doubt it would run.
And I saw the usual FB comment, "It will never run!"
Just needs a mailbox on top
Heck yeah welcome back brother nice seeing you again
Better put a flashing beacon on that to warn aircraft!😂
just posted that too....your first one, give you the credit!!
A friend adapted a 3 bbl Weber from a Porsche 911 to a custom 96” Harley Shovelhead. He had to do a fair amount of tuning after completing fabrication of an intake that mounted to an S&S Super G manifold.
Worked out pretty well. Only issue he wasn’t able to overcome was the lack of a choke on the Weber, requiring liberal use of the accelerator pump for starting, and an unusually long warmup period.
I bought the bike a few years ago, but he bought it back after his wife died.
That's awesome man
I'd call it the cloud catcher or the moon intake
Tunnel ram to Heaven
@@lostonpurpose3734 bug catcher!!
Honestly the fabrication was looking pretty legit until the burr bit fell off in the tube 😂
it happens to the best of us ; P
This channel never disappoints! This reminds me of the insane stuff my best bud and I did from Jr. High to graduation!
The first intake needing a low bridge escort!
Is it under 13.5'? I wonder if it will break carb studs at 100mph!
@@Twogreenfeet that's right. I have heard them called bird and bug catchers, but I think this one may be a crop duster scraper
@thunderhead289 saw this monstrosity in Atlanta, it was pretty hard to miss 😂 was good to meet you and chat. Keep up the A+ content sir
Next up to the pole is Maverick!
Hands down the best gear head content on TH-cam! Luke rocks!!
Thanks! Usually people tell me to kick rocks!
I needed this video today! Thanks Luke! You're off probation, you have served your fanbase...
I told everybody that you bumped her head on the ceiling while working on the carburetor they did not believe that either
God speed on power tour. Make sure you have air-rights whenever parking and don't go sideways, your carb might end up in a different zip code than the car!
Yeah you could go through a 3 or 4 ft deep puddle now!
This is why I subscribe, I love your ability to do a decent job on your experiments.
Never thought I'd see such a thing as a "carbutower" on a car😂
Good One Darcy... LUKE, this one is a winner
The 'CARBUTOWER' for UR'POWER
These types of thunderhead videos like this and the lawnmower carb is literally the stuff i think randomly at work lol love these types of videos!
Cloud harvester edition water injection tunnel ram. Now all you need are four individual lawn mower carburetors to go on top of each tube... Quad down-draft setup because why not! Thanks for the laughs... I'll keep watching. ✌️😎👍
That has to be one of the greatest things I've ever seen. I tip my cap to your sir.
Man, you guys take heat soak seriously.
That's got to be the coolest. and craziest thing i've ever seen Uncle Luke. It's amazing that it works. Thank you for all the cool and great videos.
Needs navigation warning lights.
Gotta say, your videos ALWAYS have the best music
You should try the lawn mower carb on it to see if its possible as well
Oh you are going on Power Tour with it like that? What FUN!! Looks great, as stated below, I love the fact that you didn't snip the tails off the zip ties.. super classy!
I would be worried about aerodynamic drag ripping it off at highway speeds
Anyone sensible would
It was great meeting you and yer dad on tour this week. You've road-proven another garage idea! I'm itching to get The Carb Cheater setup on my Skylark. Thanks Luke
The big question is, are you taking this on power tour this year?
The most awesome part about this is that you're gonna drive this on Power Tour 😂
Ever since you've gotten the Maverick I've wanted one! lol
Looks like air ride is next, haha !
But how will you hook up the PCV? :) I grease my carb gaskets too, they work forever and seal better in my opinion. I have to imagine the fuel mix is delayed some with that, when you turn it off a lot of fuel will run down the pipes into the motor, but when you floor it I expect it would go very lean at first then flood when you let off. Still, it's ridiculous which means it was time well spent. Well, your time not mine...
You need guy lines on that thing. She’s gonna fall over in highway winds. 😂😂
Loved IT !
KEEP IT COMING
I'LL WATCH
One eyed MONSTER
I love this kind of content, now if only you had a Dyno to test for the optimal height, cutting it down a a foot at a time haha
one inch at a time.
there's gonna be a sweet spot there somewhere!
It was awesome meeting you on power tour, Thanks again for the signature and the picture, Minnesota
You are very welcome, getting closer to 2024 power tour! Be here before we know it
Looking forward to it!
Holley eat your heart out 😂
Saturday morning cartoon extravaganza with Luke and Frens
That’s pretty neat that it works that well no matter how useful or useless it may be still a cool fact to find out for the fun
I don’t even care why, lol. I loved the lawnmower carb experiment BTW!
This is how you get a job offer from Edelbrock to beat the Holley SkyRam.
Love the keystone classics! So heavy!
The higher it is the colder the air! 😂 this is fantastic
Also want to see this dyno tested, interested in how the thermodynamics work, the cooling effect of the long intake could improve density and give more power? Not practical in this form but food for thought…
Intake velocity baby,put some screen in three to!
Can you have the camera person stand on the front bumper to get in/out of the garage?
Hilarious experiment. That works way better then I though it would. Love Mavericks. My first car was a 74 Maverick with 302 and currently own a 69.5/early 70 Maverick.
Good man.. my granny used a tall intake to wean us... Or to hypnotize the Watkins man... Love your show..
Absolutely Ridiculous!!
I Love It 👍🤘🇺🇸😁🔥🔥
The weather looks great! where are you in Florida??? That looks like home to me! Thanks for the videos!
Man you could have just sat on the front end to get it out, you saw how much it dropped when you walked on it.
Definitely digging the previously unreleased aic. My favorite Seattle band from day one. Light that thing up for night driving so low altitude plane's
Great job on snorkel 1.0 . Crew in prayers for a safe and fun power tour .