The air cleaner housing on this Essex hot rod (yes, Essex hot rod) is an inverted aluminum bundt cake pan. That’s pretty cool, but do you know what is the function of the small wooden box wired to the center of the pan?
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Well, it wasn’t there last time we saw this “Essex Appeal” hot rod. http://hooniverse.info/2014/02/17/this-hot-rod-has-essex-appeal/
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That’s a vintage plasma vibrator, which sets up the bundt vortex. The bundt vortex takes the air/fuel mixture and makes it into a perfect stoichiometric swirl, both increasing its velocity and caloric value. This system is known to create delicious donuts.
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It’s an old
relaybuzz box for a hit miss engine. I just can’t figure out why it is wired to the air cleaner nut. -
I have no idea what it actually does, but if it were mine it would operate an electromagnet to lift that bundt air cleaner and generate some nice intake roar on demand’
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If it were mine, it’d bake a nice bundt cake while I was driving….
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Love. It.
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It looks like a Model T coil, but the only logical function is as an anti theft device for the bundt pan.
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That was my fault. The guy’s wife told him he could use her bundt pan on his car, but he better not lose it. He remembers the time he lost one of her Tupperware containers and the months of no sex, so he was going to make damn well sure he could give the bundt pan back.
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It’s an electrostatic air filter. Putting a slight electric charge on the bundt cake pan causes the dirt to cling to it, thus cleaning the air that goes into the engine. Quite ingenious actually!
Also works to stop mice from making a home in the air filter…
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The wooden box is the outhouse for the magical elves that live in the bundt cake pan, clearly.
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Commenting from a cabin just a few miles from the west entrance to Glacier National Park.
Lots has been happening, naturally, but I want to take a moment to brag on the two workhorses that got us here. This pair of aging, appliance-like Hondas happily tore across South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana at a cruising speed of 80-85 mph in 100+F heat while keeping their occupants cool and comfortable.
And despite being well-loaded and down on power a bit thanks to high altitude, they still managed to tick off 95mph overtakes on fast 2-lane roads when called upon. As icing on the cake, the Odyssey has averaged 25mpg and the Ridgeline 20mpg (that blunt nose and heavier AWD system no doubt the reasons for its lower performance, since it has essentially the same engine as the Odyssey).
2005 Odyssey @ 155k, 2007 Ridgeline @ 130k.-
nicely done. Theyre just babies at that mileage.
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I’m quite happy with the Odyssey. I hope it’s the last minivan I have to buy, and that it will still have some value left in it when we are done with it in a few years (that is, when my 3 younguns grow out of car seats).
The Ridgeline is my dad’s, and we need to do a little maintenance on it while we’re on this trip. The rear seat leg retractor pulleys are kaputkaput (we have replacement parts and I always bring my tools on road trips), and he’s got a sticky something-or-other somewhere in the parking brake system. I suspect some gunking up at the rear, which frequently gets dunked into a dirty lake when they launch their boat. Hopefully it’s just dirty and not rusty.
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The owner has a keen sense of comic silliness. Touche! I like the coolant puke tanks too.
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the box appears to be a model T or similar era ignition coil and it looks to me like there is a spark plug in the top of that cake pan. Really ill advised flamethrower intake?
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