Re: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six

["Larry R. Daum" <mramc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [AMC-list] Nash 234.8 OHV six
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Does anyone (Frank?) know anything specific about the old Nash 234.8 inline
6?
* What do you need?

 It was OHV, and there was an aluminum head for it.

*Common practice back in the day was to have a base cast iron head 
and an option aluminum head with a higher compression ratio.
The Nash-Healey used a dual carb version of the aluminum head. The 
Lemans option on the big Nash used basically the same engine
on the top of the line Ambassadors. Some were aluminum , some cast iron.

. THe Nash Healey used
it. I imagine it's unobtainable.

* The Nash guys in NCCA (Nash car club of America) could probably find you one.

 But is it anything like the 195.6 ohv?

* Not really . The 234.8 CID Nash engine came out in 1934. The 195.6 
came out about the same time , as a flat head.

Nothing serious could interchange, it's 7-mains, so the block has to be
longer.

* yep pretty much.


Is it a huge worthless boat anchor? Or just bigger?

* Yep , pretty much there was not a lot of Hi-po equipment if any for 
this engine.
Some one did use the NASH 322 I believe straight 8 at Bonnevile for a 
speed record for straight 8 engines some thing like 15 or 20 years ago.
It was the 9 main bearing crank shaft that they wanted to use the 
that engine. It was one of the big high performance manufacturer owner who did
the Nash 8 . Nash like Hudson pretty much left there straight 8s go 
after world War II . The 234.8 soldiered on until 1956 or so I 
believe. I believe 1956 is when Nash did the
OHV version of the 195.6 flat head and dropped the big 234.8 six 
after wards. LRDaum


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