Subject: mail Digest for 16 Apr 2005 in hour 15:00 To: "hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx" <hh7x@xxxxxxxxxxx> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Non-AMC powered cars in AMO > I personally am fearful that AMO is opening a real "can of > worms" by permitting a "MODIFIED" Class ("MODIFIED" meaning > non-AMC power). Can you elaborate? I'm really interested to know more about this. Myinterest in one particular outcome is obvious, but I don't have religion in it. Worst-case, I'll continue to use the field as a sweeeet parking lot :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- You might try a Port-0- L00 ;)- and give us all a break........ Understandably Sentiment as to the Cans of Worms... Yet - look what we would have missed had we not stuck that Rolls Royce Merlin V-12 onto our P-51 Mustang Fighter Aircraft engine bulkhead! Which is not to say the Allison V-12 should be held in the same breath as the AMC 4 / 6 / 8 cyl. engines - as a Warmly Massaged 390 would thrill the most Radical of Addictions yet there are those who prefer listening to Concubines.......... AMC produced some Body Styles that Fine Profile - which takes a lot to bring back to just Driver Condition - - what with per Gallon of Wal Mart Paint and Bar Code on that 360" Horse Hair Paint Brushy... Yet - these past few years have brought some Incredible Power Plants into mass production and within Grasp of Flat Wallets everywhere - even as Detroit enters G'otterdamarung - Passage to Oblivion'. Plymouth is Gone. Oldsmobile - Americas oldest Running Marque? - Gone. GM stock is one Cats Whisker away from Junk Bond Status - Wall St. won't touch it. Rover is now - Gone. MG - the British Sports Car known the world around in the 60s' as The Yuppie 'Gate Crasher' (similar to the fold down seats of the Nash - in outcome only) - Gone. The Thunderbird is Dead. DCX stock chart looks a lot like a Killington Vt. Ski Slope Trail Map. But for this Brief Expanse of Time - Materials that were once Private Reserve of Racing Circles and Construction GCs on their Saturday Night Specials - are now almost common among Manufacturers but it won't last - . Right now, you're seeing the culmination of Old School Engineering at its' Best. But Commodities are in demand - and Aluminum & Steel command cash money overseas due to Asias rapid building plan - these wonderful engines - produced for just a few years - will be gone as well. Big Money in Expensive Drivetrains - soon to be a thing of the Past for Manufacturers World Wide - in a Price War - going Electric is Salvation staring them in the Face. Anyone here have a Checkered Past involving Slot Cars ? Remember rewinding those C'ores' >?.......... Big Expensive > Right ;)? I watched on TV - an Electric S'portscar' - which amounted to a Fiberglas' body on a Tube Frame - put a V12 Ferrara away in a Drag Race - in Major Proportions.. in the WeeDs - ! Enzo, we hardly knew ye! Sequential Multi-Port Fuel Injection / Turbo Supercharging / Electronic Control Module Controllers for Hydraulicly Controlled DOHC Camshaft Positioning - HorsePower and Torque figures in Stock Engines that surpass Expensively Modified Stock efforts are Available Now at Salvage Yard Prices. The Last Year of the Olds Aurora V8 engine is a work of Art. Short stroke V8 - with Twin Turbos you would have an Indy Car engine screaming shift points @ 8,000 RPM - or - a miserly Boulevard Cruiser Potentate - just spin the Boost Controller............ Designed alongside the Northstar - and packing a slightly smaller dimension - Upgraded for its' final year with rollers on the cam interfaces - this all Aluminum DOHC Orphan Fuel Sipping V8 Beauty languishes in salvage Engine Bays and may find their Fates coupled with those of AMC motors - scrapped and lost. Or what about an Inliner for you Purists ? After being on the STROKERS List for 4.0 engines some 3+ years, those builders who know tossed all their I'mprovements' to the 4.0 they thought DCX could do to create the "Ultimate" Inliner onto the List: DOHC / Crossflow head / 4 valve / semi Hemi / Strong bottom end Design Structure / Latest Alloy Materials / Ultra Light Weight via Lost Foam Casting etc. They missed the Hydraulicly controlled via ECM Camshafts - which creates a 'Sweet Spot' right across the entire operating range of the Engine...... as they didn't know it existed. Less weight and exhibiting more usable HP / Torque of a Maxed Stroker 4.0 (4.7 etc.) and being of 4.2 configuration : All of the above Inliner can be purchased for around $800.00 from www.car-parts.com salvage. The Same Engine - bumped to 5.0 with Forged Rods & Pistons and an Increased Compression Ration - putting out 600HP all day (up from 275 stock in 4.2 config.) in a Desert Race Vehicle - turned in consistent Wins without breaking a sweat. Want one of these F'rivolous ChachKiies' in Your CLassIC ? OK - so this Golden Era of Incredible Engines in Salvage Yards - , as we're witnessing the Dawn of Alternate Fuel Age Engines and the coming of Electric Cars - knowing to the eventuality that our cherished Hot Rods will one day rely on fuelling at Agway Grain & Feed Store - or a LNG hook-up at a Friends Restaurant - or running the cycled out Deep Fryer Oils from McDonalds & Burger King as a Designer Chic' Odiferous Cruise Accessory' . Having been first attracted to cars via Engine sounds - I can't help but marvel this 'Final Battle' of "Bold & Beautiful" in their Own Right - Ultra-Tech Engines - of 'Other' Manufacture Status. Back when L'ittle GTO' was making the Rounds - and 'of Mythical Proportions' created - it remains to this day known only by 'The Keeper of Book Tiger Paws' - that it was a Tri-Power 427 that lurked under the KingTigers bonnet - not a 389. Some would argue for a P'repped' 421 ..........but who knew where that New Jersey V'ette went one dark and dreary night - insurance was paid up.. The 389 was a mild engine that would grenade a lot. Thet got Yanked on a Saturday Nite ......... when you sent the sick G'oat to the V'ette'....... and you later conveniently F'orgot' the keys to the locked hood pins........ "Put up or Shut up"............ Ok - who here remembers the Studillac - raise your Hands ! Uh-huh....... thought so. Oh! Is that New Old Stock ? Rally ? What did you pay for it ? Brien. 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