Highrise Double Pump Carburetor

Discussion in 'Transformers Movie Discussion' started by WheelJacksWrkShp, Jan 17, 2008.

  1. Lord_Starscream

    Lord_Starscream Well-Known Member

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    Hey all ,
    I work at a Performance Parts store they use a carburator style call side draft .
    That are mainly used on older street rod on hod rod cars for mainly styling reasons .

    If you look at the picture princewilliam77 posted it is a fuel injection intake that gives it the side draft look , you can tell buy the fuel rails .

    And all "Double Pumper" means is the carb uses dual accelerator pumps , which most carbs are now of day its just Holly coin it as a Trade mark name .

    But yes the one in the movie is a 2 barrell carb set up running ,
    four carbs two per side .
     
  2. WheelJacksWrkShp

    WheelJacksWrkShp Here goes nothin'

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    Eh I probably wouldn't have cared as much if I didn't want to know so bad what that setup was. But when they faked it I started noticing it all throughout the movie and started seeing it in others. Its like you best friend telling you she has a crush on you. It kinda changes things, although in that way it was GOOOOD.

    Thank you princewilliam77 for enlightening me to what it was and to others who have been contributing.

    Insane Galvatron, thank you for pointing it out that my amended statement was also wrong. You are right the LT1 in the Z28's and Formula Firebirds did have a distributor. I keep forgetting my LT1 was out of a '92 Vette and not all are the same. However how is it that the distributor cap is behind the waster pump? Isn't that a Ford setup? The distributor cap should be at the back of the engine under a bolt on cover plate that hides it to make the engine area look cleaner, while the water pump is bolted to the front of the engine.
     
  3. Insane Galvatron

    Insane Galvatron is not insane. Really!

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    I think it was because the back 4 cylinders were under the dash. So the distributer was on the front end of the cam instead of the back. There wasn't alot of room under the hood for a cap to be sticking up. Since it had a reverse direction water flow system, it used a different pump than a normal small block chevy. I guess to save room they made the pump stick out a bit further to fit the cap behind it. I'd have never known about the leak had I not developed a miss in the car. That lead to the wet cap, which lead to the leaky pump.
     
  4. WheelJacksWrkShp

    WheelJacksWrkShp Here goes nothin'

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    Huh I think I would have to see that, sounds too unique. Talking this out has jogged a lot of my memory on cars. Since I finished mine 4 years ago I kinda stepped out of the loop. But now I remember even the multiport 2.8 v6 had a distributor.
     
  5. Insane Galvatron

    Insane Galvatron is not insane. Really!

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    I'm pretty sure all the LT1 F-bodies were like this. All new cars are tight under the hood....
     
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    Personally...I didn't really care much about if she said anything right...I was paying more attention to her hot body.

    On the engine note...I think that engine looks to be off the brand new Camaro.
     
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    I saw the car, and i thought "that's a nice car."
    Then I saw the engine, and I thought "...that's rather shiny."
    The Mikaela stretched, and I damn near forgot what a car was.
     
  8. Primus

    Primus Beware, the modelers. Veteran

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    Deefuzz Beard On! Beardmaster! Veteran

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    :lolol  That's brilliant right there!
     
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  11. Brandon

    Brandon This is important work.

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    Ditto on that my friend.:thumb 
     
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    Dropshot Transform your destiny

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    :lol :lol :lol 
     
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    you are PARTLY correct. except one major flaw.

    that motor in that particular scene was copy of the same motor used in the Camaro Concept car debut at SEMA back in '05 or '06.

    which IS in fact a fuel injected motor with individual throttle bodies. and the small metal lines going over the intake manifold are the feed lines for the direct port nitrous oxide system. the engine itself makes 700+hp.

    the engines used in the '76 camaros were your basic 350 crate engine from GM performance parts that you can buy for like $2500 and it makes 300hp. you can build the same 350 with more power putting about $3k into it which includes price of the entire engine itself.
    the "New" Camaro is (if you havent learned already) an exact clone of the concept camaro using a Pontiac GTO. basically its a very expensive GTO with a body kit and interior. the motor in that is the LS2(again a small block Chevy 350) which was in the C5 Corvette 1 or 2 years before the release of the C6 corvette with its more powerful LS7. Thus the later GTO model was released with the same LS7 motor making 50hp less at400hp and 400tq total.

    my facts may not be ENTIRELY accurate about the engine in the car but i can sure as hell tell you what exactly it has. and the engines in the cars in the movie and related.
     
  14. Lord_Starscream

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    I was talking to a guy at the detroit autorama show this passed weekend and saw a street rod .
    The guy I spoke to told me he had a moon intake on his car .
    Then I got to thinking in the movie the car had autometer cobalt gauges in the dash with a moon sticker in the middle .

    So I went on moons web site
    https://www.mooneyesusa.com/Store/product_info.php?cPath=188_28_77&products_id=828&osCsid=28f129b87ada843e7c7421d978ea8296

    Thw only difference is they put longer intake stacks .

    And there is no way that motor is out of the concept camaro , for one major fact the concept car does not have cylinder heads off an 86 and older small block . You can tell by how the Moroso Valve covers are bolted down .
     
  15. llamatron

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    Yeah the movie had many many many technical errors in it.

    "CRIKEY MATE! We need to look beyond Foo-ee-err transfers and start considering KWAN-TUM MEE-KAN-ICKS mate!"