Re: the Navarro Six, O-ring questions

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 farna@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Who needs power steering? It might take a bit to get it down to
> 20-25 psi. The pop-off valves might be open a lot, which would be
> loud.

For now (this year) all I will do with this motor is document it
and clean it up and bench-assemble valve train parts to make sure
it all fits, then bag it up oiled for the next step,
whateverthehellthatis.

Well that stuff-it-in-the-Hornet idea was momentary madness driven
by excitement -- if I put this motor in any car it will be a new
project. Not only is the Hornet the wrong car, when I do the body
and paint (soon) the car will be "done" -- I ain't takin' the
f'ing thing apart!

> What you need is something open in front, like a T roadster
> (hmmm.... Jeffery version?), that shows all that engine off! I
> think your biggest problem in a Hornet will be left side room for
> all the plumbing.

I hadn't thought of an actual rod -- that might actually be a good
platform. An open-wheel car but old-fashioned track-roadster type.
It sounds great, but I don't have the sort of place right now I
could build such a thing.



The problem with this motor is that while it has some historic
value, it's basically a pile of parts, a mildly damaged copy of an
engine that never qualified and never ran a lap.  If it was
completely assembled, like #2 was, it'd be worth something and be
something to look at.

It would be a huge project to bend up all the tubing to make this
a clone of #2 -- look at those photos closely! I bet the plumbing
took as long as the reast of the build.

It's mainly intersting historically (I think) in that it documents
probably very closely what's in that Indy motor -- I rarely see
that level of detail.


Putting the intact #2 motor in a car and driving it might arguably
be a crime, but my #1-in-pieces motor is just a bunch of
(interesting) pieces. Making a motor out of it after it's all
documented seems fine to me. If anyone has any other opinions --
John? -- I honestly would love to hear them.


It's AMC history, plus, a hell of a how-to to take a
common-as-dirt motor and make a big bag of HP cheap!  Can you
imagine a little plague of AMC sixes leaving Average Joe 350's
routinely in the dust on the street? Talk about scandals. I
realize this block is double-O-ringed and all that, but there's
got to be a lot of lessons in here about oiling, high revs, cam,
etc.


What I feel bad about is not taking good photos of the #2 motor,
the intact one.  I didn't realize that there were no photos of
that thing extant. Like a fool I thought it was better known than
it was.