1986 Buick GX1
GX1 #001 [The One and Only]
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What is this weird looking thing and what was the advertised HP gains?
Anybody know?
Anybody know?
Old school parts trivia.
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TexasT
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1986 Buick GX1
GX1 #001 [The One and Only]
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It’s a Kenne-bell intercooler fan shroud. It goes on the back of the intercooler and increases the efficiency of the intercooler fan, and in conjunction with the one piece air dam/ ram air/ intercooler scoop would give you 10 HP because of the cooler intake air charge, not including the ram air function. [According to the literature]
toofastforyou
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It's a KENNE-BELL fiberglass shroud for the stock intercooler. I know as I had one years ago...
Claude.
Claude.
1986 Buick GX1
GX1 #001 [The One and Only]
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I haven’t seen one of these mentioned in the last 5 or 6 years so I thought I’d post it up.
At least the fuel drain is helpful. The intercooler fan shroud won’t work with larger intercoolers so for most it’s obsolete, not that it helped anyway.
At least the fuel drain is helpful. The intercooler fan shroud won’t work with larger intercoolers so for most it’s obsolete, not that it helped anyway.
Lol, 10hp. Bet the fine print says J.C. Whitney. They always made outrageous hp and mpg claims for their parts.
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The old Ken Bell catalogs always had these crazy hp claims, like the ram air system, most went slower when they bolted it on.
But a lot of the other parts did work, like the plenum ,it even'd out the air flow pretty well like a power plate, and i still run the blue fuel pressure reg till this day.
But a lot of the other parts did work, like the plenum ,it even'd out the air flow pretty well like a power plate, and i still run the blue fuel pressure reg till this day.
1986 Buick GX1
GX1 #001 [The One and Only]
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I have that part still installed on my GN.
I also have the fiberglass Ram Air/Intercooler scoop that directs the air into the Intercooler opening up front.
Not sure that it added 10HP !!!
They are both being removed for my Resto/Update.
I took the shroud off when I went with a stretched SLIC.
I’ll keep my ram air/ intercooler scoop as I like the look.
Maybe after driving 100 mi. the I/C may have been slightly cooler, but at the track, not so much.
toofastforyou
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Yes... this is especially true about the ram air system where the air filter was enclosed in a round case with a flexible tube attached to the side of the case sneaked behind the headlights and down below, under the bumper to a small scoop installed in the driver's side air dam. I was at the Englishtown NJ track with Fred Vetter and he suggested that I remove the case around the filter so I did, and on the next run the car did run faster! Needless to say that I never put it back again!
As for the plenum and the blue fuel regulator, they were good. The blue regulator was made for them by Accufab if I remember correctly.
Claude.
I also still use the Kenne-Bell/Accufab blue fuel pressure regulator. I also still have the shroud attached to my original intercooler with Duttweiler neck on a shelf in my basement because I replaced it with something from Kenne-Bell that does work well,the second design vertical row Big Boy intercooler that is much smaller than the first design horizontal row intercooler.
As far as the intercooler scoop goes,it gobbles up the hottest air at the drag strip (the air that lives just above the black drag strip that the smokin hot sun is shining on). Red Armstrong discovered this many years ago and proved it by installing a boost activated flap that stopped the hot air from entering the intercooler scoop at WOT. After hitting a performance wall,forcefed3.8's learned of Red's discovery and put it to use on his own car and saw significant power gains. He runs in the 8.60 range with a Custom Stock Location Intercooler.
As far as the intercooler scoop goes,it gobbles up the hottest air at the drag strip (the air that lives just above the black drag strip that the smokin hot sun is shining on). Red Armstrong discovered this many years ago and proved it by installing a boost activated flap that stopped the hot air from entering the intercooler scoop at WOT. After hitting a performance wall,forcefed3.8's learned of Red's discovery and put it to use on his own car and saw significant power gains. He runs in the 8.60 range with a Custom Stock Location Intercooler.
SLIC V6
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I still have my Kenne-Bell Ram Air hooked up!
It will also come off for the Resto/Upgrade.
I worked with a friend that also had an 87 GN, we both used to say '.2 & 2'!
That seemed to be the Kenne-Bell claim for each part they sold.
If we subtracted .2 for each part, both of our cars would have been in the 9's!!
Here is a little Old School chip porn:
It will also come off for the Resto/Upgrade.
I worked with a friend that also had an 87 GN, we both used to say '.2 & 2'!
That seemed to be the Kenne-Bell claim for each part they sold.
If we subtracted .2 for each part, both of our cars would have been in the 9's!!
Here is a little Old School chip porn:
Rosey1968
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that is on my when I bought it... still isI ran the Ultimate chip for about 15 years, it worked well with 94 Suncoco, the fueling kinda sucked for winter driving though, but then again they were located in sunny Rancho Cockaroacha California.
Everyone needs one of these...
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toofastforyou
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Speaking of chips, I still have these... 1st picture is a Kenne-Bell "Hot Flash" and I'm not sure what the second is... It's a Delco with "ATH 7584" written on it... One thing I know is that the Delco # "ACXA" are the stock ones for our GN's.
Claude.
Claude.
