Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My dad often talked about racing a Buick straight 8 against a Lincoln V12 car from
Canton, Ohio to Uniontown, Pennsylvania sometime in the late 40's early 50's.
He said the straight 8 blew the V12's doors off.(of course he had the straight 8)
He said he and my mom were sitting in the kitchen drinking coffee for quite some time
before the Lincoln showed up.

No real connection to the Nash 8 that I know of,
just an old story that I had long forgotten till I saw Larry's post.

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- "Larry R. Daum" <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Does anyone (Frank?) know anything specific about the old Nash 234.8
> inline
> 6?
> * What do you need?
> 
>   It was OHV, and there was an aluminum head for it.
> 
> *Common practice back in the day was to have a base cast iron head 
> and an option aluminum head with a higher compression ratio.
> The Nash-Healey used a dual carb version of the aluminum head. The 
> Lemans option on the big Nash used basically the same engine
> on the top of the line Ambassadors. Some were aluminum , some cast
> iron.
> 
> . THe Nash Healey used
> it. I imagine it's unobtainable.
> 
> * The Nash guys in NCCA (Nash car club of America) could probably find
> you one.
> 
>   But is it anything like the 195.6 ohv?
> 
> * Not really . The 234.8 CID Nash engine came out in 1934. The 195.6 
> came out about the same time , as a flat head.
> 
> Nothing serious could interchange, it's 7-mains, so the block has to
> be
> longer.
> 
> * yep pretty much.
> 
> 
> Is it a huge worthless boat anchor? Or just bigger?
> 
> * Yep , pretty much there was not a lot of Hi-po equipment if any for
> 
> this engine.
> Some one did use the NASH 322 I believe straight 8 at Bonnevile for a
> 
> speed record for straight 8 engines some thing like 15 or 20 years
> ago.
> It was the 9 main bearing crank shaft that they wanted to use the 
> that engine. It was one of the big high performance manufacturer owner
> who did
> the Nash 8 . Nash like Hudson pretty much left there straight 8s go 
> after world War II . The 234.8 soldiered on until 1956 or so I 
> believe. I believe 1956 is when Nash did the
> OHV version of the 195.6 flat head and dropped the big 234.8 six 
> after wards. LRDaum
> 
> 
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