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Originally Posted by Tassie f100
Someone will set me straight on this one,but I thought the early Fordomatics in the 55-58 Customlines did the same thing with the autos(taking off in 2nd rather than 1st in drive)
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I did ask classic baz as to why the v8 stude never used 1st in drive. His answer was along the lines of the transmissions didnt shift overly smoothly and they were sold as more of a luxury car then a race car, so it was not about acceleration but being smooth. The 6's were the poor mans version and gutless, so needed 1st.
1st was there if selected in the v8 if you needed it for whatever reason. Im taking classic baz's word for all this as he is passionate about that car and i like it but dont really care.
Other interesting facts no one cares about that i was told about the stude 4.2 was the thermostat is mounted at the back of the engine, as far away as practical from the radiator so effectively the point where the engine coolant gets the hottest. Also, there was a golden hawk. So a factory centrifugal supercharged studebaker hawk. Now, i dont know head to tail about carbys. So what was rambled to me (classic baz, never ask about his car, he will litterally talk you ears off), if you use anyform of racing snail on a carby it needs to be boost referenced if its a blow through setup. Something about outside air preasure vs whats getting shoved down the carb. So what he told me was stude put a housing around the carby so therefore there was no differential in outside air preassure as opposed to what air gets shoved down the carb. So it was explained in such a fashion that i might be wrong, but it sounded convincing. Then theres draw through. Im pretty sure thats what cars like the xd grand prix had. So carb before the turbo then into the crossflow. My loose understanding is no need to boost reference carbs for that setup as its sort of like vaccum not too dissimilar to a naturally aspirated engine.