Re: [AMC-list] SMOOTH RUNNING

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will also say this about the my step-brother's Buick straight eight.  It makes beautiful music wound up to 6,000 rpm through open headers at Bonneville.  It's really a unique sound.

Joe Fulton
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> 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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