Sons Custom Built intake. Move over Professor Brown!

[Hemi Joel]

My son cam is now in tech school learning how to be a machinist. Each student was asked to design and build a project from the ground up. He has been hanging around my shop running machinery since he was a pup,  and loves the '48-'53 big block Ford/Lincoln 337 inch flathead. So while the rest of the class was designing things like bottle openers and rulers, he envisioned building an intake manifold for the 337. Using Solidworks and AutoCAD, he developed the code, and used a Haas VF3 CNC mill to carve out the finished product today. He built it to mount Rochester 2 GC carbs, but now he is inclined to build some risers that would mount Stromberg 97's.   Of course the old man is proud and needs to show it off on the internet! Tomorrow we will bolt it on the motor and get a couple more pics.

[jayb]

Wow, nice job Cam!

[thatdarncat]

Nice. I bet dad already has visions of CNC Duesenberg parts

[machoneman]

Nice! Yeah, some modern lightweight Dusie pistons maybe? Perhaps a blower intake too. Hah!

[Bolted to Floor]

Very impressive.

[cjshaker]

That is awesome! Not many parts exist for those engines. Dads had one sitting around for years, but never had anything to put it in.

I'd be proud also! Thanks for posting this.

[fekbmax]

Can't wait to see it bolted on an engine and in use..

[Royce]

Wow. There are some Ford genes in the family.. I heartily approve of the engine choice...  Maybe the Lincoln Y block could be his next love..

[57 lima bean]

Cam's a cool kid.Nice go'n Pops!

[FERoadster]

Outstanding job and artistic.
A thought on carb choices. Original Stromberg 97's are really expensive and even the reproduced ones are costly.
Why not think about using Stromberg WW's? Higher CFM, more modern design (1950's and 1960's) 4 bolt base the same as the Rochester  and they cost only $40 to $70 each depending on the condition.
I just bought WW 10 parts carbs for $100. I can probably assemble 4 or 5 out of the batch.
A picture of the look.

[Hemi Joel]

Thanks for all the kind words.
 That would be cool to buy a CNC mill and have him crank out all kinds of cool parts for me, but I am afraid he'd be so busy making his own stuff, I'd be waiting forever...

That WW carb is interesting. I can't say that I am familiar with them. I'll need to check it out.

On the Hot Rod, I'm using Holley 2100's. They are more CFM than a Stromberg 97, plus cheaper. But they look similar.

[66FAIRLANE]

Great job Cam! Now you just have to get him working on a billet FE  block for under $1K 

[mlcraven]

Well done to your son...that's a fine-looking piece of work. A bright future looms for the lad, I daresay!

[FERoadster]

Here is a table of CFM rates I posted here a year or so ago.
The Holley 2100 from my understanding is close to the ECG So flow ratings are as follows

Carb Model    CFM@3.0"  CFM@1.5"

94                   251            176
81                   192            135
48                   250            175
LZ                   229            160
ECG                264             185

Strom 97         214             150
Strom WW       357             250   not sure of which venturi size 2 variations one @ 1.125 and another @ 1.1875

[Rory428]

Great looking intake, he should defineatly get a Gold Star for that project!! As for the Stromberg WW, they kinda look familiar, were they used on old MoPars, like say a 318 Polysphere V8?