seeing what a great job ROOSTER did on his car and all this talk about positive displacement chargers got me thinking. I wonder if it would be possible to take an old style roots charger like the weiand 142, 177, or 6-71 and drill the lower section to accept injectors and instead of putting a carb(s) on top, put a 4-barrel thottle body. Yeah it would take tons of fab work and a DFI setup and so on and so forth....but wouldnt it be cool! What are you guys ideas on this? Is it even possible, are there reasons one should not even try? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Maybe im just looking for someone to tell me it can't be done so ill get really motivated.

Bubba

 

Lotsa Lotsa money....but if you have it, then go for it

 

Would be awsome (love the look of the old roots), but I would consider, coverting the LT1 to a carb and then throw the roots on top.

 

I dont think it would take much more money than setting up an intercooled centrifugal blower motor....2k for the blower, 650 for the throttle body, im not sure what a DFI set-up costs, but people often convert centrifugally blown LT1's to DFI so I don't see that as being a cost increase. the pullies may take some work(money) to get right but thats about it, the fab work to the lower section shouldnt be too expensive, people weld in injector bungs to those victor style manifolds all the time. I'd really like to know what ROOSTER thinks about my idea since he's done the most similar thing ive seen. All ideas, questions, comments are more than appreciated, so bring em on. Thanks

Bubba