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Bill, This looks to be what you need. Don't know about condition, but it spins. Yours if you want it. I am in Wimauma.

RQB3263/81/305 EXISTING/REMOVED P/S PUMP PIC .... EDUCATE ME .... I NEED ONE ..... BILL 386-466-6434 .... THANKS ALL ....BURRRR

I think there are three settings and the wording stamped is sometimes not the same. Something like soft, medium, HD or sometimes export instead of HD. I know you need to collapse the shock completely and rotate the bottom against the top and you will hear or feel the click when it changes position. That sounds pretty cool that you are getting your Avanti out of hibernation after fifty plus years. Especially since you are the original owner. What year and serial number?

RQB3263/81/305 GOOD MORNING ALL FROM FRIGID BUT SUNNY FLORIDA 3263 NEEDS A POWER STEERING PUMP .... AND THEY ARE NOT STANDARD OFF THE SHELF SAGINAW PUMPS .... MY RESERVOIR CAN IS DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR AND LEAKING ..... THE MAIN DIFFERENCE AS BEST I CAN TELL IS THE FLUID RETURN TUBE ON THE CAN IS STRAIGHT AND ACCORDING TO A GURU WAS MODIFIED BY AVANTI .... PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED PIC OF MY REMOVED PUMP... ALSO .... I HAVE AN ALMOST COMPLETE A/C SYSTEM WITH NEW ALUMINUM COMPRESSOR AND ALL BRACKETS/BOLT ETC. (EXCEPT FOR EVAPORATOR) AND OEM 305 VALVE COVERS, CAST IRON EXHAUST MANIFOLDS, STARTER, FOR SALE OR REASONABLE TRADE .... SORRY NO SHIPPING ....BILL IN FLORIDA ....386-466-6434 CELL PIC COMING SOON

I’m not certain but StuV may have made the first set and that tooling could have been acquired by Studebaker or it may have been the other way around. I had or probably still have a set that has the name StuV cast into the header.

Ian Fleming's Avanti was shipped to the U.K. on the American Chief.

Budd

Sorry no… that isn’t the connection!

Not sure aluminum is good material for exhaust manifolds. According to sources on the internet, pure Aluminum melts around 1200° with most alloys melting sooner. Exhaust manifolds can reach 1200° - 1800° under hard acceleration, extended high speed driving. Not much room for error.

It is listed as sold, so, hopefully, someone will restore it. One of the fun (Studebaker) episodes in my life was seeing a wrecked '64 Avanti rebuilt properly. In the late 1960s I happened to see a freshly wrecked '64 Avanti indoors at a local wrecking yard. It was Avanti Gold with Claret interior, R2 & 4-spd, and it was torn up worse than the one above. A year or so later I came upon that very same car parked on the street. I looked it over and it looked good to me. This was in the Charlottesville-Harrisonburg, Virginia area. Has anyone seen it? The Claret interior was fairly rare, so someone might remember it for that reason. --Dwight

Dave Thibeault had some cast in aluminum a few years ago. Dave generally does things well. --Dwight

Both were designed by Raymond Loewy? --Dwight

In the fall of 1962, what was the connection between the United States Line steamer “American Chief” and Studebaker’s new Avanti?

Back in the early '60s when Pontiac was a force on the drag strips...the days of their "Swiss cheese frames" to lighten the car...they also had aluminum headers. Supposedly one could always tell when one of these cars made a run due to the molten aluminum drops on the track.

From what I've always understood Lionel Stone's repops showed a lot of flashing and required some work to get them to fit properly.

email sent Tim

One of our Stude venders showed me a pair of R3 type exhaust headers cast in aluminum…. Not sure how that worked out.

OK Tim…. I’ll snap a couple photos and send them along today…. Right now clearing driveway… 6” snow fell overnight!

Ed, my email address is tr8tim@gmail.com Sorry for the delay; busy times right now - Tim

Left & right exhaust manifolds ARE identical on ALL Studebaker Avantis, whether standard R1-R2 manifolds or R3-R4 "headers." There was no need for a boss for an alternator bracket on Avanti manifolds. Your R3-R4 manifolds will fit any Studebaker V8 from 1955 through 1964, whether 224, 259, 289, R1, R2, R3, or R4. I have a set of Studebaker International's reproduction R3 headers and they have no numbers or letters cast into them, so yours are not the most recent repros. --Dwight

Any of you guys headed to South Bend for the June meet? Do any of the wheels still have a Firestone 500 mounted on them?

They appear to have been port matched. They certainly look original issue but I think the Lionel Stone versions were cast from the same tooling so I think those had the numbers also.

Not sure, but I’d guess you own the real McCoy… Amazing how, after all these years, rare parts like these still turn up !

I have what I think is a pair of unused R3 headers. Three pictures are attached. Please help to answer a few questions. -The left and right look exactly the same. -These don't have the alternator bracket sticking out of the front of the passenger side. -There is a part number 1558353 cast on the right horizontal face on each. On the other front face is cast 206-86. -Pictures of the reproductions don't seem to have a number. What do I have? What models do these fit? Thanks

Pretty easy… drain battery acid, then slice case open near the top. (mine had seam about 1” down from top ) Then slide out and properly dispose of internals, (saving top posts) Then wash out case thoroughly, put top back in place and install a couple of ‘dummy’ battery cables, routed down the side of the now empty battery. You’ve removed about 35 lbs of weight from over the left front wheel and put it where it’s needed… over the rear wheels! I frequently open the hood of my Avanti at car shows, and no one has ever ‘caught on’ to this!