[Amc-list] "Well Blow Me Down";....- 196 'Slug' Blues -

[Brien Tourville <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject:
Re: [Amc-list] "Well Blow Me Down";....- 196 'Slug' Blues -
From:
Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Date:
Thu, 9 Aug 2007 22:34:23 -0700

To:
"AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


On Thursday 09 August 2007 14:44:30 Brien Tourville wrote:


> > He does examine things and give valid reasons for his ideas -- such as
> > turboing a 196.
> >
> > He looks at the block and head castings and the crank and rods.
> >
> > It's a heavy casting with forged crank and rods.
> >
> > The valves are a bit small and the intake tract a bit restrictive, but
> > pressure overcomes that.
> >
> > So it is in theory a good turbo candidate.
>   

I have the books, I like them, but to be blunt I've not found them to be 
useful; the data is old, and basically a bunch of posited ideas and not 
backed up with very many 'I did X and it worked'.





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Well, Turboing for up to 6 lbs. is stupid simple - 

what does help are photos showing the positioning of
the Turbo and 'U' pipe - the section of pipe attatched
to the stock exhaust header that comes up next to the
carb where you weld on the Turbo flange.

Mount the Turbo - run the oil lines - plumb the boost
to a Blow Off Valve - then to the carb bonnet.

There aren't many great Intercoolers outside of a
Spearco - $ka.ching$ - so running an IC is 'Optional'
and probably the biggest expense on a budget build
like this.

A Mercury Merkur Ti has a nice ball bearing / water cooled
Turbo one can find in slavage or www.car-parts.com that
would go nicely on a 196 - 232.  Plenty of Japanese Turbos
out there - Toyota MR2 is one.

Again, the information in Datsons' books is not set up
for easy reference.

You'll read one Article and find a gem and another somewhere
else - PostIts as marked Reference Tabs is the only way to go
here.

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