Re: [AMC-list] SMOOTH RUNNING

[Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>]

6000 with that great long crankshaft? Must have a really good (torsional)
vibration damper on it. : )

Ken


Quoting Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I will also say this about the my step-brother's Buick straight eight.  It
> makes beautiful music wound up to 6,000 rpm through open headers at
> Bonneville.  It's really a unique sound.
> 
> Joe Fulton
> > 
> > 
> > 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
> > 
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