MadMike's 'Casper' 76 bug

[buguy]

Man that's a really nice intake. I wish they made one that was smaller!

[madmike]

Yea He's real proud of them

[buguy]

Yeah that's why I made all my own stuff, but it's no where near as nice as the pro built stuff.

[madmike]

I Hear Ya,, I started to re-rout all my Oil lines Yesterday since it hit 60*f
Swapping the chrome doghouse shroud off the rail buggy so I can run 4 oil coolers yep four
comes out of the filter to the 72 plate w/fan then to a finned tube cooler the to the intake back to the engine,, stock dog house cooler in place too or I may run it backwards using the plate cooler last cuz my temp sensor is in that line.

[Chip Birks]

Are you having oil temp issues?

[madmike]

not really, does like to go to 220+ after boosting 'a lot'
We have a 'Father's Day Cruise' up here and I do lot's of burnouts hope someone will take pic's this year

[Chip Birks]

Mine will run up to 220 or so and stay there while cruising. I just run good full synthetic oil. I have just the one 96 pass cooler. No room for anything else!

[buguy]

Oh man. I have none! And I live in Florida. Guess I better get with it!

[Chip Birks]

Oh man. I have none! And I live in Florida. Guess I better get with it!

I only have the 96 pass. My intake goes through the fan shroud where my stock cooler should be.

[buguy]

Well I have the stock one I guess. No external.

[Chip Birks]

That should be just fine. I'd go that route if mine wasn't setup how it is.

[madmike]

I installed a oil thermostat and re-routed all my oil lines/aka "Plumber's Nightmare'
just need to fab up a new bracket to help support the intake

[buguy]

You almost got it! I used hollow tube on my support and I hate it. I just smashed the ends flat and drilled holes there to go over studs. Needs to be beefier. Maybe you could find some solid round stock to use?
I also went up to my carb base and I think I would find a way to make the support shorter if I was to do it again. Keep things as ridged as possible.

[madmike]

Ha,, I used a broken lawn chair "tube's" before too
Had some stainless tube here so had a friend weld some nuts 'inserted' and I used some Heim ends
here's a better pic

[buguy]

Heim is the way to go. And the proper silicon intake boot. I recently put a 4 ply boot on mine and its floppy. My old one wasn't like that. It was 5 ply if I remember right, but after 10 years of being on there it was a little hard.