Re: [AMC-list] SMOOTH RUNNING

[Joe Fulton <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't how good the torsional dampling was, because he broke a crankshaft at Bonneville last year and that sent him early. 

Joe Fulton


--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Ken Ames <ameskg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [AMC-list] SMOOTH RUNNING
> To: "AMC, Rambler, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, March 22, 2010, 12:12 PM
> 6000 with that great long crankshaft?
> Must have a really good (torsional)
> vibration damper on it. : )
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> Quoting 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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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