Supercharger setups

[Tim McBride]

So we've seen a few supercharger setups, are these one off creations or at some point did someone actually offer a supercharger intake for the MEL?

[Treinarts]

Wiend made a manifold, front cover and drive assembly for the GMC 6-71 style blower.
I saw a blower manifold on ebay a while back. I am pretty sure one of the members of this forum bought it. TJR

[Tim McBride]

Thanks for the info. I imagine the draw a hefty premium at sale.
Every now and then I think about wanting to build one up, then sanity (and reality of the checkbook) returns.

[Treinarts]

My brother and I kicked around the idea of adapting a 460 assembly to the MEL engine. He has a blown 460 in a 55 ford truck. Ungodly fast.
Slover's intake adapters would allow the use a 460 ford blower manifold. The crank snout would have to be turned down to 460 size and a belt tensioner would have to be fabracated. We don't think the water pump would interfer. The fuel pump would have to be removed, and there would be a concern over distributor clearance. Crab cab set ups for MEL engines are tough to come by. 460 ford blower kits are all over Summit and Jegs. TJR

[Chris Craft crazy]

Here is a blower set up for an MEL from a listing on ebay..

Blower assembly MEL

blower intake

[Chris Craft crazy]

The buy it now on this set up was 2000 dollars... it needed some work, but a reasonable price for a rare item

MEL Weiand blower

MEL weiand blower

[Chris Craft crazy]

MEL Weiand blower

Edited to add: This setup is the only one I have seen, and it sold within one day at the buy it now price of $2000.00
The Intake is the rarity of course.

[mrevildoer]

Ahhhhhhh, now that's what dreams are made of...as far as MEL speed parts go $2000 is a pretty awesome deal for everything you'd be getting. If I had that money lying around when that listing popped up I would have pounced myself.

On a side note, I've never seen a setup w/o the aircleaner on it and it's interesting to see the carbs reversed. Makes a little sense now that I see it

[430 6V]

The fun thing with those manifolds is the distribtor is covered by the intake.

Have to run a dummy for oil pump function and a belt or cam driven unit for ignition.

[64Sedan]

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Edited to add: This setup is the only one I have seen, and it sold within one day at the buy it now price of $2000.00
The Intake is the rarity of course.

That looks very familar..