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Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:12:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Jack Dale <mercendarian@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] AMC-list Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1
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Dear Jeff:? I can't get anyone to respond to this question, but it
deserves an answer.? WHY is there no info about experimental engines for
AMCs??? Was AMC so poor(or stupid)?that they never considered OHCs, DOHCs,
and larger displacement engines?? I've heard that the 464cu v-8 was
planned in the late 60s, FOR use in the 70s, but was?never built, maybe
even never tested.?? It never even reached the racers, which will often
"test" a concept in stress beyond the "Real World."? I think it was simply
a "tall-block, factory-stroked" 401/390, which anyone could do with a
re-casting, while using as many previous parts as possible.?? One of the
GM "tall-blocks" was a 427 based on a SBC, a "perfect" engine for a
1st-gen camaro/other.? Also, WHY no exotic heads for the inline AMCs??
They didn't use the OHC which they could have gotten from Willys when they
bought JEEP, but (232s{3.8L})AMC-blocks under-rode the fab "Torino" down
in Argentina.? A
famous European designer needed to "pump-up" the performance of the TVR
for a new model, and he bought some motorcycle cylinder heads from Suzuki,
cut/welded them together to make a DOHC-4valve head for a 4Liter inline 6
cylinder which produced 350hp!??(That's more HP by 25, than the 4L
Aston-Martin in "Vantage" tune, which went into DB-6s of the
mid-sixties.??The "cut-and-weld" was for prototypes, but then a run of
castings were made, machined, and appeared on the TVR.? The engine was
called the "Speed-six".? TVR sold at least hundreds of cars equiped with
this engine.? AMC never had a similar engine "mule"??? If you don't reply,
I'll know you don't know either, which is "OK", but where do we
definitively find out??? All of the AMC engine people that went to
Chrysler when they were bought, should be retired by now, so surely they
could talk (--if any are still alive) about AMC "projects."?? Imho, you're
no "AMCnut" unless you have at least
thought...about this, and having thought about it, GIVE US your thoughts,
please.?? I thought the Turbo-cars were "OK" and should have been
preserved and/sold without the tubines if they couldn't handle the
warranty.? I thought the '74-8 Matador Coupe looked better, but the
Turbine came first, and with that engine, it was of greater significance.?
This is kind of what I'm talking about.? AMC...and earlier, Studebaker,
had engines that elicited little, if any, ROMANCE.?? "Romance" to we
gearheads, is POWER.
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