Straight 8 modified

**Brooklyn53** · 05-30-2014, 10:52 PM

I like the modifications here. He eliminated the downdraft exhaust tube with those two small chrome boxes. What are they? And where do I find a lifter cover like that?

Thanks
Mike

**firstofeight** · 05-31-2014, 08:10 AM

Brooklyn, that is a neat picture. May I ask where you found it? I would like to know more about it.

Thanks
Ben

**Brooklyn53** · 05-31-2014, 08:33 AM

Here's the article.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/t...ight-8.285610/

**krinkov58** · 05-31-2014, 04:01 PM

Those boxes are angled breathers by Mooneyes, they got finned ones too.

Lifter cover is definitely a custom job; the "Buick" emblem on it is one re-popped for wire wheels...pretty sweet!

**Brooklyn53** · 05-31-2014, 08:48 PM

Good eye krinkov58. That lifter cover is really nice.

**LONG** · 06-02-2014, 09:30 PM

Need to start a sticky thread with rad S-8 set ups like this.

**Jenz38** · 06-06-2014, 02:14 PM

Yeahh !!
Looks absolutly awesome,but I think its would be difficould to cruise in midrange in traffic.

**Jyrki** · 06-08-2014, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by krinkov58

Those boxes are angled breathers by Mooneyes, they got finned ones too.

Lifter cover is definitely a custom job; the "Buick" emblem on it is one re-popped for wire wheels...pretty sweet!

Gerry Duttweiler makes those lifter covers

**Brooklyn53** · 10-19-2014, 07:15 AM

This modified 53 Buick Special was at this years Dead Man's Curve car show in New Jersey. Take note of the exhaust headers, they run behind the front wheel.

**shoominati** · 04-29-2017, 08:51 PM

I wonder where the guy got the HEI distributor? I was thinking of getting a nailhead HEI (as they look about the right length for a 263 etc) And you could put the straight 8 gear on it, shorten it if it needed it and redrill for the roll pin. I think the bottom part of the Straight Eight dizzy's unbolt anyway, so there's that.