Category Archives: Other cool stuff

Stuff we want to write about that won’t fit to another category.

HOP UP with Stromberg !!

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Free with subscriber issues of HOP UP magazine Volume 14, Number 2. Your ‘HOP UP with STROMBERG’ water slide decal. It’s not a sticker, of course, so make yourself comfortable and watch along with Stromberg graphic design guru Jason Krzmarzick as he teaches us all the lost art of applying a water slide decal. It looks great on just a plain piece of glass. Imagine how crazy it will be snuck up in corner of the back window in your hopped up hot rod coupe?

After you’ve watched it, you might enjoy another Stromberg video from the wide range we have saved on the Vimeo website. Might be the best boxed set you’ve ever binged on…..

Didn’t subscribe to HOP UP? DIdn’t get your decal? Feel you’re missing out? You better email us at sales@stromberg-97.com and ask how you can get your own water slide… We’re still working that one out…

Lone Star Round Up 2018

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Pin stripped deck lid

The Lone Star Round Up in Austin, Texas is a cool event in anyone’s language. And for 2018, it didn’t disappoint. Ok, it was cool in every sense, this year. In fact, it was cold as hell on the Saturday, which for Texas is kinda weird. But everyone toughed it out and got on with it. There is so much to see and do at the Round Up, but it was no surprise that the indoor vendors were busiest! The swap meet guys sold out every glove they had, from welding gauntlets to Michael Jackson style white woollies. And the musicians did their bit in fingerless mittens to keep the crowd entertained.

Strombergs!

As usual for the Lone Star, there was a great display of Stromberg carburetors on all sorts of cool cars. And we have shown you a few here, along with some other cars which caught our eye. Especially pleasing for us was the Summit Racing truck highlighting Stromberg carburetors and other parts as part of their flathead engine display board. This year’s Stromberg Pick went to Kenny Emberley’s 1932 Ford coupe from Alexandia, Louisiana. That’s his funky old red and white interior in the pics below. All in all, another great event and yet more Stromberg friends made.

 

 

 

Stromberg BIG97 dyno thrash

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Norm Schenck at Competition Fuel Systems has been dyno testing Stromberg 97 and BIG97 carburetors for us for year. In fact he had a major hand in developing the BIG97 from scratch.

We set up a dedicated dyno motor at Norm’s facility in Vassar, Michigan and we’ve been watching intently as horsepower has grown with small tweaks to the carburetion and heads. This set up is with the cast iron vortec heads, that Norm ported himself. We have a set of AFR CNC ported heads waiting in the wings and they would probably make more power, but Norm suspects that the limitations of the Edelbrock tri-power intake would not have allowed for much more flow than was achieved with the vortec heads.

Want to know the numbers? This is a GM 330 horse crate motor and the best we got this time (by taking off the mufflers) was 404 ft-lbs of torque at 4300rpm and 386HP at 5400rpm. We still made over 400/380 with the mufflers on. This was on 89 octane gas with top end A/F ratios all in the 13s ! The dyno can now read separate A/F ratios per cylinder.

What this motor will do once someone (ie us) develops a new intake for the BIG97s is anyone’s guess. But it will be impressive, you can be sure of that…

All-steel Bonneville A Roadster !

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These are pretty special. Based on Al Teague’s iconic Bonneville Roadster, artist Dan Wright has made just four of these beautiful pieces so far. They’re 18″ long, 8″ wide and lost wax cast in Stainless and Bronze. Besides being a piece of investment grade art, they are cast hollow to be usable as an urn with an o-ring sealed access panel in the underside. We may not be planning our departures quite yet, but we can’t think of many better places to while away our forever years.