By their very nature, hot-rodders have a habit of not leaving well enough alone. Despite the engineering and design work that goes into O.E.M. product development, we can always rebuild it and make it stronger, right? For some, this is a relentless pursuit of perfecting an already good platform. For others, it's doing what nobody else has done before, wanting to be different. Then there are guys like Mike Staveski, who runs a quality restoration shop in Hudson, Florida, called Time Machines Auto Restorations. Several years ago, Mike and his father, Ray, built a Challenger convertible show car using a V10/A518 tranny combination. Since that sort of swap has become more common recently, they decided it was time to "renew" the high-tech E-Body retro style. This would be in the form of a '70 vintage 426 Hemi sporting dual throttle bodies in place of the factory's twin AFB Carter outfit.
Twin throttle bodies on a Hemi? Nobody in the aftermarket offered this as an option yet, and moreover, the retro-tech outfit would need to fit on both the intake and into a Shaker-style baseplate. The idea was to develop a package that could be simply interchanged with the AFB's so that anybody from a street warrior to the concours crowd could use it and swap back to the carbs if needed.
Working closely with engineers from Holley, two new Holley throttle bodies were installed on a special spacer plate made by Time Machines that allowed [Mike] to create a well-thought-out combination resulting in the ultimate in street-ability and performance. We recently had a first-hand look at the science and are spilling the beans here. The folks at Holley are currently further researching the final kit, and you'll be able to order the necessary non-Holley components from Time Machines. This deal is cool.
