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Since you’re fitting new troughs, I think running fuel & battery lines through them is an interesting concept… Never heard of anyone doing that before, and it seems, to me, an excellent idea! Please keep us posted on this.

Yes.. exactly… probably about 22… and I will never forget that deep air sound! But the sound a wound up Paxton makes on my Avanti has much more of an ‘angry’ sound.. at least to my old ears!!

Kind of surprised your R4 didn’t ‘trumpet’ better than the R1…. but perhaps the 305 inch R4 was a bit ‘gagged’ with those two big Carters! Speaking of carb “symphonics”, to my memory the best I’ve heard was a friend’s ‘65 GTO with it’s 389 and triple carbs… The only word I can think of to describe the sound those opened up ‘trips’ made is … AWESOME!!!

I’ll toss in my two cents….. In my opinion the answer may be the 1963 Avanti R2…. Reason being, from my own experience, the scream coming from the supercharger is LOUD at anything above 3500 RPM… (the factory air filter setup is basically unsilenced) Although the R3 Avanti is more powerful, it’s supercharger’s air filter is located in front of the radiator, which would quiet the supercharger noise compared to the R2 under hood setup. As far as the R4’s engine song, I’ve ridden in a 425 horse 409 Chev (dual carbs) and although the two carbs, when opened up, were very loud, (sounded great in car!) I don’t think the sound was as ‘strong’ as a wound up Paxton.

Other thoughts on this burning question??

Interesting… and the ‘64 R4 indeed could be the ‘ noise king’! Your ‘67 327 sounds like a great ride!!

Good points… however, I was leaning to the sound of the engine itself from inside the passenger compartment. (if it’s actually possible to ignore the sounds the exhaust system produces!!!)

OPINION!…… Which of the following Avantis would probably make the MOST raucous, powerful, ‘60’s type’ engine noise, when under hard acceleration, with observer being inside the vehicle? 1) 1964 Avanti—R3 equipped 2) 1963 Avanti—R2 equipped 3) 1964 Avanti— R4 equipped 4) 1967 Avanti—327 Chev equipped All four listed vehicles equipped with 3.73 rear axles, auto trans, windows rolled up, quiet exhaust system, and radios turned OFF!! OPINIONS????

A Studebaker 340CI engine build, using as many authentic parts as possible, would certainly be a HISTORIC achievement in our world of Studebakers/Avantis… I only wish Bob Palma was alive to witness this!

That’s very interesting!

Logical … but sorry…not ‘it’ …… Answer to this trivia question… LINCOLN!! (Who would have thunk?)

Have to give you a big NO on that one….Sorry!

That wire gives the horn button a good ground to chassis… Although your horn may work without it, it really should be there.. I’d re-connect it.

Sorry…. Not Poncho!!

Sure looks pretty!!

Back when the folks at Paxton Products were scrambling to sell off the last of their Studebaker R3/R4 engines... and were running short of some of the special parts required to build these engines, engine valves were supposedly sourced from …..?….. 1) Chrysler…..2) Pontiac….3) Lincoln…..or…..4) American Motors

It takes all kinds!!

Remarkable… very nicely done!

I would imagine the rare R3-R4 type cylinder heads would bolt right on to the prototype 340… without the needed cylinder chamfering found in the smaller 305 CI blocks.

I wonder if the one or two experimental 340 CI Studebaker engine blocks, that made it out of the factory, had any type of numbering I.D. on them?

The Avanti factory installed a proportioning valve on their 1983 models… However, (I think) they used it because the rear drum brakes on the ‘83’s, although the same size as the rear brakes on Studebaker Avantis, were self-energizing and had more stopping power.

Those plugs are ‘oldies but goodies’….NICE!

Ha ha!!!!!!!!!!

45 lbs?….Whoa!!!!!

Paul, I have Magnums like yours on my Avanti…. however my center caps are much deeper, (or one could say ‘taller’ than yours) Too bad you can’t find a set of caps like mine, as they are retained by a cone shaped inner bracket, with two 1/4” short bolts passing through the cone and into the back of the center cap…. Bulletproof, and very easy to remove & install. ( sorry my comment doesn’t really help with your issue!)