Re: the Navarro Six

["Mark Price" <mprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
  I'm jealous!
I wouldn't use the stuff I would be too afraid I'd frag it!
I'd get gready and put it back together and sell it off to some other collector for $15,000! Well, maybe not, but it would be tempting!
How about a shot at buying any gauges before they go up on Ebay.
I need some for my Ambassador and or American. Besides I'd like to get at least one piece that came out of his shop!
Mark Price
mprice@xxxxxxxxxx
Morgantown, WV
69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 
65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase
01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:44:41 -0700 (PDT)

>Well I retreived the rest of my junk today, and talked to Gary
>Schaedler, a machinist who worked for Barney then, and did welding
>and fab on this motor and the car. I may interview him later (he
>assented), maybe I could wangle a talk with Barney hisseff. I
>should talk to some journalist type for hints 'aforehand.
>
>What I have is motor #1, motor #2 is the indy motor. #1 sustained
>some damage on the test track (the damage looks like 30,000 wear
>to me, but at 3.5 hp/cuin any wear could be fatal) and it got set
>aside. There is a #3, or parts thereof, that Barney has so far
>kept.
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>These were the only Rambler motors Navarro ever made according to
>Gary.
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>It couldn't be a better arrangement. Except for connecting rods --
>and I may be able to get those from their current owner -- I have
>a complete monster motor kit with terrifying historic overtones.
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>I don't precisely know what to do with it, to be honest. Massive
>HP isn't my game, but maybe I could make an exception. Clearly I'm
>not going to even blink even in the direction of the exalted
>numbers Navarro got -- 3.5 hp/ci!, but it would seem that with
>this massive O-ringed, 7000rpm block I could slop out less than
>half that with little effort.
>
>I did a whole new set of photos, in daylight, of some of the major
>components, and pulled numbers from what I could find.  I'll do
>measurements etc as I go. There's a bunch of text on the new page
>also, including the partial story of this motor from Schaedler.
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>http://wps.com/AMC/Navarro-turbo-motor/index.html
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