Re: [AMC-list] Pacer motor mounts oddities

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simple ploy of the hitch company to sell their "equalizer" hitch.
My dad used one on the the back of our 68 Ambo towing an 18' fullsized trailer.
Pretty awesome setup. Back the car under the hitch and make the ball connection.
Then you cranked the trailer back up lifting the car to slightly above were you wanted ride height.
You then hooked a couple of chains and when you cranked the trailer tongue jack up the whole system wedged itself level, or there abouts. The only drawback was a few creaks and moans on tight corners.   we were little and may that was just mom?  :-O 

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!"

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> From: "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:55:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] Pacer motor mounts oddities
> 
> Aren't Mazdas still using rotary engines to this day? Speaking ot Olds
> Toronado there was a great photo of Croft Trailers framed on the wall
> down on Navigation years ago. There was a Toronado.....NO BACK WHEELS,
> hooked up to trailer and it toured the country this way the trailer
> held up rest of car I guess, too much physics for me. I used to rent
> trailers there for swap meets and was always facinated by that photo.
> 
> Eddie Stakes
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.planethoustonamx.com
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: LarryS 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   Couple o' things.
>   The wankel rotary isn't a 2 cycle OR a 4 cycle, they are Wankel
> cycle.
> 
>   (In fairness, I tend to think of it as 2 stroke, but that's not
> accurate ;-)
> 
>   Mazda used the rotary in a full lineup of cars including the RX-7
> and their various boxy japanese sedans.  After the various apex seal
> problems, all the sedans dropped the rotary for the mazda 4 cylinder
> with the RX-7 being the lone rotary in production at all for a while.
> 
>   2 stack rotaries are commonplace.  Even singlestack rotaries are
> used, but not in cars -- you're talking all of 75 hp or so.
> 
>   3 stack are common, racing and road cars, but not domestically. 
> They are usually ordered in from Australia or somewhere.  Can't make
> EPA, you know ;-)
> 
>   4 stack are, to my knowledge, not used anywhere except
> experimentally on stationary applications like their "spark assisted
> diesel" project for electrical generation.  Yup... a wankel running
> diesel fuel... except "spark assisted" -- talk about marketing spin.
> 
>   The 4 stack has a lot of the same kind of crank probs a straight 8
> can have.  Too much load over too long a shaft, basically.
> 
>   Among the many reasons the rotary didn't take off were those crummy
> apex seals -- ironically, now that there's so few of them, they've
> come out with good seals and the problem is gone.
> 
>   Also, they never did get good mileage.  Ever.  That's why I think of
> them as a 2 stroke engine -- they chugalug the fuel.
> 
>   The new Mazda Renesis (?) is a production rotary.... 3 or 4 years
> now?   And no, you don't see  many of them.
> 
>   Just in case anyone was gonna lose any sleep over a stupid little
> japanese engine.
> 
>   Oh... and if you run one without a muffler, it makes absolutely the
> nastiest, loudest, and most-annoying sound I have EVER heard from an
> engine.  Talk about something that would invoke road-rage... that'd be
> it.
> 
> 
>   L.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>     From: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry Atkins
>     Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 8:31 PM
>     To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Pacer motor mounts oddities
> 
> 
>     Your exactly right that is why they ended up with the 258 and
> later v8's. I am sure they were going to be 2 bangers with two of
> those triangle things in them. They say you can get them with 3 or 4
> but they are used mostly for racing because they are so expensive. The
> Mazda xr7 was the only car I knew of that used them in mass
> production. While they are an old design I remember when they first
> were promoted in the 70's they were suppose to be what all cars would
> have in them in a few short years. They died. I can also remember when
> the Corvair came out and the VW was in its heyday that a lot of people
> were saying all cars would be rear engine cars shortly. It died too. I
> can also remember in 68 when Olds brought out a front wheel drive car
> that they said it would take over. Well it did but not like the
> Tornado  They had straight engines with a belt going to the transaxel.
> Not like the sideway engines we have today.
> 
>     Terry
> 
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