need some help with a kaiser vs 57 supercharger. has anybody rebuilt one? what type of fluid goes in it? has anyone mounted one on a fe ford motor? i know the hamb will speak!
What I can tell you is that Super Charger is the same design as those used by Ford in '57-60 with their high performance Y blocks. If you can't find any info in your lists for Kaiser, try Ford listings. They put a bunch of those out on their factory prepared cars in those model years. Normbc9
Robert Paxton McCulloch founded the co. in 1937. Paxton is still in business, and making chargers for late model stuff, etc http://www.paxtonauto.com/ a bit of history here.... http://www.paxtonauto.com/article.php?id=3 HTH James
New York State troopers ordered a bunch of McCulloch blown '57 Fords for New York State Thruway duty. I guess the State figured they could catch all the sports car racers that used the Thruway between NYC and Albany for speed trials. By '58-'59 almost every Ford dealer in the Hudson Valley had a used McCulloch setup on their shelves as the cars were refitted with the spread bore Holley four barrels. Don't remember why, perhaps local "tuners" at the Ford dealerships weren't up to hipo work?
The Ford blower and the Kaiser are completely different! Kaiser used a variable speed pulley (like a snowmobile clutch), Ford was fixed. Find a Studebaker service manual for '57/'58 Golden Hawks. They used a similar if not the same unit as Kaiser
http://superchargerhelp.com/showthread.php?t=9732 All the SN Paxtons (Short Nose=no variable drive) used Type A trans fluid until Type F came out- Don't use anything other than dynosaur TypeF =the balls have to slip, but also grip. rick
I had a 57 with the blower and it did have a electrical varible pitch pulley and this is what the wire was for.
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