Hot Rods Toymaker's Evil Twin Engine Dragster

Had some time and was wondering what class the TWIN would have been back in the day and read somewhere to use the SCTA designations as they reflect the early classes. So....AA is 501 and over, the TWIN is 700, runs Gas and plans are to be a modified roadster..............AA/GMR or AA/GD for now as a Dragster even though SCTA doesn't show a Dragster Category and Lakester doesn't work for me. With some more research and in time my goal is AA/FMR

 

Engines and Engine Plates are painted and put together, Chevy orange awt to set it off nicely!

Then the business end, had to position the replacement 350 on the LH side and after seeing some marks on the rig gears that showed me it was too tight I moved them apart. New clutch is really nice, too bad it's covered up

 

Looking great!!!

 

Looks bitchin'

 

like the clutch.orange is sexy

 

Lookin great Roc, a little bit of color does wonders for the soul...........

 

Looks good Rocky , Is the clutch your useing need to have the pack clearance set after useing it a few times , if it is I'm sure I have an extra set of the long 12 inch feeler gauges so you can set it more evenly, let me know and I'll find them and send them out Tim Jones

 

Looks Bitchin.

What's all the stuff on the floor in the foreground of the pic of the "business end"?

 

Tim, I can remove some .015 shims for wear but I'll have to remove the bellhousing for that. Thank you for your offer though.

HaHaha, you noticed the "Beer Can" shims I ran between the flywheels to get the engines further apart before reaming the dowel holes in the LH block.

Engines are in and now it's one piece at a time

 

Hell yeah this thing is a beast...

 

Ifn it don't use bigger hammer..................

 

Damn looked awsome before.But all prettied up it looks better!!!!!Nice job.

 

I can't wait to hear it run Rocky.........

 

rockey,
after looking at your intake the inner runners are shorter then the outeres so I figured you may have had a lean problem on one side? I was just wondering after you tore down the engine and did an inspection did you find the intake manifolds evenly distributed the fuel/air mix or did you find any indications of lean conditions on different cylinders? just curious
Paul

 

Looks great Roc.

 

If you are thinking running in SCTA You need to come out and spend some time at Elmo with us this year, hell come on over to Bonneville with us in Aug. I've got room for one more crew member on Jake. It'll be a blast!

 

All the cylinders were real rich, so at this point it's hard to tell. The runners are equal although the logs are tilted, here is the measurements I came up ith when I made it.

HaHaHa, 1 day my friend.
Here is a relaease the folks at Tucson sent out for the TWIN.

 

Some Photos we took for the T-Shirt art....................

 

lookin good Rocky

 

hey rock...
PLEASE don't put vinyl lettering on that car.

let me know if i can help you avoid that proposition (hand painted lettering!!)

see you in a month!

 

That is so damn cool !!!!

 

I understand the engines are counter rotating, but does it matter how the 2 engines are timed (indexed) to each other?
Thanx; Tom S. in Tn.

 

HaHaha, No, other than a Sticker or 2 Hand Painting all the way!

In the beginning of the build we had much conversation and I decided to have the LH engine Fire 10* after the RH with both set at 32* BTDC timing. I have talked the the Johansen Brothers of "Twin Bear" fame and they tell me their father had done much testing on the dyno back in the day and found no advantages with firing every 45* compared to 90*.

Thanks everyone for your enthusiasm!

 

I had plans on attending one of the biggest car shows around today but the weather had me worried and I didn't want to take the TWIN out in the rain. After I was sure of good weather I pulled the TWIn out of the shop to take a few photos. After the photos I fired it up and had some ignition issues, cleaned up the points, added a ballast resistor, set the dwell and timing and man all I can say is its sounds SOOOOOO much better with two 350's! I cannot wait to get the clutch pedal dialed in and drop the hammer on it!!


The plugs miss by this much!

Chromed the Brake Handle!

5 Spokes are forever!


Thought I'd never have a MOON Tank, especially with the Tr-Bar cap!






I admit it aint real sexy but it is how I think I would of built it in late 59!

 

Way cool. I can't wait to see it with the body mounted.

 

Well, good news and bad news..................I just went out and destroyed 2nd gear! But no worries becaue the TWIN will FRY the tires in direct! OH what a feeling!!!!

 

Thank VON, I'm saving that part of the build for the winter

 

That's just plain pretty! You did it right Rocky. I can see that car on the line at San Gabriel in 1959.

 

Man oh man Rocky the Evil Twin looks good! More videos in the near future?

 

Looking great Rocky!