Re: [AMC-List] rambler hot rod // backwards six

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you might want to save a search for a Nash body from the teens or twenties to use for the tub. It would at least be somewhat in the family!
 I always thought a 60's six with the aircooled trans would be a riculessly simple engine in T bucket type rod!
--
Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Well I didn't expect so many ideas from my hare-brained project
> thunking... but I think when all is said and done, that if I
> do decide to make a rod it will be conventional front engine,
> rear drive, for the simple reason it is a no-brainer to assemble
> with standard parts, and I can keep it all AMC, and that I have
> a lot of the hard parts right now in my pile.
> 
> I guess I've decided that I want to build the Navarro test mule
> motor into a hot rod; that I can make a Z exhaust pipe to get it
> literally out of my face; that more usual hot rod chassis stuff
> will be OK (I might afford to actually build and complete it).
> 
> I don't think the Navarro Rambler parts I have amounts to
> anything historically preservable as-is; it's not a complete
> motor, it's a pile of different motor parts, so building a hot
> rod motor from it seems fine to me.
> 
> 
> 
> But with all the cogitations it appears that building a
> reverse-rotation AMC six is pretty straightforward -- pending
> directional oil seal issues etc I think it was Nick pointed out.
> 
> to wit:
> 
> * Replace timing chain with gear drive --  cam goes backwards.
> * put chevy 6 gear on distrib -- now distributor forwards.
>   (but cam helical *lifts* distrib gear, not pulls it down
>   into the block) oil pump runs right direction. (note1)
> * serpentine water pump with V belt or vice-versa, water
>   goes right direction.
> * rewire starter for bass-ackwards rotation
> 
> note1: that's with a stock cam! 
> 
> In stock form, the distributor shaft is pulled down via tooth
> face friction onto the thrust washer in the distributor;
> with stock cam run backwards/chevy dist gear, it would lift;
> shimming the shaft to limit lift under the dist gear should
> fix that, and oil would still walk up the shaft normally.
> 
> If the distributor gear direction does matter, then a custom
> cam with "chevy" gear cut on it, and stock AMC distrib gear,
> will accomplish the same thing.
> 
> 
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