Project Title: Dodge 360 roots style blower intake.

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  Project Overview:  This project is to design a roots style blower intake for a Dodge 360 V8 motor. The reason for this is because there is not one available for this application commercially.

  Statement of Development:  Along with the design challenge of this project I want to learn how the sheet metal part of solidworks is used.

  Detailed Project Description: I intend to design this intake from scratch. The motor itself will have to be measured along with the intake gaskets and Blower base gasket.

• I intend to produce a 3D model of the intake.
• The drawing package for the parts to be machined from.

  Major Tasks and Milestones:

• Intake gaskets have been purchased and I will take delivery by Wednesday February 1, 2012.
• The first major project will be to measure the motor itself and the intake gaskets and blower base. I hope to have this done by February 20, 2012.
• The next major task will be to figure out the size of the Plenum. I will try to have this done by February 25, 2012.
• By March 20, 2012 I will have figured out what the intake height will be and the location of the blower pulley in relation to the Crank pulley.
• By April 10, 2012 I should have the design done and ready to complete the drawings.

  Resource Requirements: The resources that I will need will be software access and my measuring tools.

  Sources: A book called Max-Performance Buick by Jefferson Bryant and the internet.

Roots type blower intake for Dodge 360 motor.

  Portfolio Preparation, Ivy Tech Community Collage.

     My proposal is to design a blower intake for a Dodge 360 cubic inch engine. The reason for this project is that there is not anybody currently producing a intake for this application for a roots style blower.

  With this project I will have to learn how to use the sheet metal part of Solidworks which to this point I have not used before. There will also be problem solving for placement of the nose of the blower so the belt that drives the blower will line up with the crank shaft pulley. There will be other issues that will have to resolved such as the plenum sized correctly for the intake and also runner length. I will have to measure for proper fit for everything to line up on the intake. Things such as clearance for the distributor, plumbing for the water jackets.

   What I intend to do is design this intake from scratch. The only way to get the dimensions is to physically measure everything from the intake gaskets to the motor its self. I will produce a solid model of the intake its self and the mechanical drawings for the parts to be machined.

    The major task for getting started with this project will be to measure a set of intake gaskets for intake port and bolt hole locations. I will also have to measure the motor itself for locations of the water jackets. The placement of the blower is also criticial for belt alignment. It will roughly take about a couple of weeks to get all the information together to start this project.

    The materials will consist of the intake gaskets, 360 dodge intake, and the long block of the motor itself.The tools I need to measure everything with I already have. It will be nesacerry to use the schools computer to complete my solid sheet metal model for this project.

    The infromation for the formulas to figure the plenum size and runner lenght will borrowed from a book called Max-Performance Buick Engine by Jefferson Bryant.