Maybe that is what I was thinking of the IH/AMC differences or
similiarities. The forged steel cranks and rods were all made at the Holmes
Foundry in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
AMC literally 'ran out' of 360s in 1974 due to several factor, one was that
AMC asked for and got, a extension to take advantage of changing federal
emissions laws, so while production began Aug 1st, 1973 and was supposed to end
Jul 15th, 1974, it kept on until end of Nov 1974. I may add somewhere on my site
it talks about all the oddies one will find with cars in that time frame, like
my 74 304 Gremlin built end of Jul 74 was a 1975 color Jade green J7. Another
car I have documented is Alpine White 74 AMX, could keep on here.
The other reason was AMC was spreading itself thin and selling lots of
engines to International Harvester so IH could supplement thier own line of
engines the 345 and 392, both sort of boat anchors like earlier AMC 287 and
327s....and Bricklin was also getting engines from aMC but when they started
having issues with delivery, they switched to Ford engines, the rest is
history.
Davis mentions: "Forged cranks could also be had back in the day for the
290 and 343 by special order. Group 19 parts. Just like forged rods for the 290
were available."
I asked this back in 1990s on one amc-list when it had something like 2500+
members. Has anyone ever SEEN these, that is, held them in hand and looked at
casting number? I haven't and no one on that list years ago had ever seen them.
The numbers are in the books,
(see 4th page) just no one, myself included have ever seen the rare
beasts.
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Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re:
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All the Amc 401 engines had forged rods and steel crank. IH did use a
different 401 for a period. Buick maybe? The Amc 401 can also be found in IH
scouts, travel all, busses, and various farm
equip.
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