[AMC-list] Fwd: Nash 234.8 OHV six

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, very cool.
That's probably why they had to stop making the straight 8, made the hoods too long :)

Somewhere in my dad's story he always mentioned how smooth the straight 8's ran.
Said they would sit and idle with a glass of water on the engine and the surface of the water would not even vibrate.

Those engines would have been better fit under a COE or Jeep F170 type cabover.
Would not have required the mile long hood.

Can you imagine them trying to get a straight 8 through crash tests, now?

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!"

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Joe Fulton" <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rambler Nash Jeep and familyAMC" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:57:15 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six

This is my step-brother's car.  It's powered by a Buick Straight 8 and is the XXO Vintage Coupe class record holder at Bonneville.

http://www.scta-bni.org/Bonneville/Speedweek%2006/photos_11_cars_4/IM001042.JPG

Joe Fulton

--- On Tue, 3/16/10, Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six
> To: "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 1:08 PM
> 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:
> 
> > From: "Larry R. Daum" <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> > From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
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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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