the Navarro Six

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Well I retreived the rest of my junk today, and talked to Gary
Schaedler, a machinist who worked for Barney then, and did welding
and fab on this motor and the car. I may interview him later (he
assented), maybe I could wangle a talk with Barney hisseff. I
should talk to some journalist type for hints 'aforehand.

What I have is motor #1, motor #2 is the indy motor. #1 sustained
some damage on the test track (the damage looks like 30,000 wear
to me, but at 3.5 hp/cuin any wear could be fatal) and it got set
aside. There is a #3, or parts thereof, that Barney has so far
kept.

These were the only Rambler motors Navarro ever made according to
Gary.

It couldn't be a better arrangement. Except for connecting rods --
and I may be able to get those from their current owner -- I have
a complete monster motor kit with terrifying historic overtones.

I don't precisely know what to do with it, to be honest. Massive
HP isn't my game, but maybe I could make an exception. Clearly I'm
not going to even blink even in the direction of the exalted
numbers Navarro got -- 3.5 hp/ci!, but it would seem that with
this massive O-ringed, 7000rpm block I could slop out less than
half that with little effort.

I did a whole new set of photos, in daylight, of some of the major
components, and pulled numbers from what I could find.  I'll do
measurements etc as I go. There's a bunch of text on the new page
also, including the partial story of this motor from Schaedler.


http://wps.com/AMC/Navarro-turbo-motor/index.html