[AMC-list] SMOOTH RUNNING

[Jeff D <mr_amc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK,
My 258 in my '87 Eagle, which I bought new.  was very smooth running from the factory. I could balance a nickle on edge on the flat part of the air cleaner..  and it would stay..

really..
now with 105,000, I don't know..

Jeff Denison


Indeed, very cool.

That's probably why they had to stop making the straight 8, made the hoods too long :)

Somewhere in my dad's story he always mentioned how smooth the straight 8's ran.
Said they would sit and idle with a glass of water on the engine and the surface of the water would not even vibrate.

Those engines would have been better fit under a COE or Jeep F170 type cabover.
Would not have required the mile long hood.

Can you imagine them trying to get a straight 8 through crash tests, now?

Mark Price

 		 	   		  
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