I am building a 1933 Cadillac 370B V12 for a friend of mine for a tail dragger he is building (stretched, chopped, smoothed, etc, 36 Ford coupe) and was wondering if anyone ever made speed parts for this engine? I looked around and even finding stock style replacement parts is difficult, and was unable to find any mention of this engine being used really for anything other than a resto. Was this ever used back in the day in customs or racing?
I thought I remembered seeing that Eddie Edmunds did manifolds for the V12 & V16, but I can't find it now. He did manifolds for just about everything else... Most of his products were made in very small batches and I suspect a fair amount of the early stuff was scrapped in WWII. Log manifolds and headers wouldn't be that difficult. An Austrian shop, Haus of Hotrod, built a road-legalish Cad V12-powered bellytank with log manifolds and headers, but for some reason you won't find it anywhere but Fakebook. I saw it on the FB Belly Tank Racers group.
1959 I was working in a wrecking yard in L.A. There was a '32 Cad V-12 laying in the dirt by the office. The transmission was in a wheelbarrow and weighed almost as much as the engine. I thought it would be cool in a '40's Chevy but lacked the skill to make it happen. Probably went for scrap.
While looking for something else, I saw a reference that page 166 of the book Hot Rod Roots: A Tribute to the Pioneers by Dain Gingerelli mentions that Winfield ground racing cams for the Cad V-12.
sorry I don't have any info for you but that sounds like a super cool project, would like to here/see more of it.
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