Sweet pics. Looks like one hell of a trip. :gigem:
Anyone else notice the old Texas plate in the first pic?
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Sweet pics. Looks like one hell of a trip. :gigem:
Anyone else notice the old Texas plate in the first pic?
Thats the team from Houston's push car that the guy Hans that Doug and I know was with.Quote:
Originally Posted by CheapJeep
Here's a couple of their many engines. They had a 9200 rpm big block and 9800 rpm small block. I forgot the name of the team but it was "something funny" engineering. I asked the guy what kind of work the company did and he said, "Ah, its just a company I made up so I could write all this stuff off." Basically, they have one 200 mph car thats set up to be easy to drive and charge big bucks for rich people to go to Bonneville and go 200mph. They were swapping engines in and out of the race car constantly and setting records left and right.
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How's this for Texas representin'?
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Very cool stuff. WTF is going on here?
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Originally Posted by mudtoy67
Ive heard of a Hemi OHV conversion on a flat head V8. but thats defantly interesting.
why the different valve covers? is that part of the injection setup?
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Originally Posted by mudtoy67
Wish I could tell ya!
I walked up and talked to the guy. I asked what he had there and he said, "That engine was built by xxxxx xxxxx and it's all original" so matter of factly that I felt ashamed that I didnt recognize the name. I got the impressed that xxxx xxxxx was an old time land speed racer and the guy was pretty short with me so I left it at that.
Let's see who can point out the oddest feature on it.
The hose running into the valve cover. Looks like a coolant hose.
Here is the Ardun OHV flathead convesion website. It may shine some light onto the engine's design.
http://www.ardun.com/index.html
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Originally Posted by Reckless
Rowdy, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. :flipoff2:
we pretty much established the head difference. you could have been more precise though.
thanks for playing!
what's ****ing with my head is it looks to be only a 4 cylinder. It looks to have a smallblock head on that side?
I think it's a SBC with a flathead cover on that side to **** with me.
No ****, i see the other coolant hose left of the timing cover. Unless that hose is coming from an aux vaccum pump for negative crankcase pressure, then why in the hell does it have pipe and pipe fittings? I understand going for broke but damn.
I like the drivers side header myselfQuote:
Originally Posted by Seth
I'm lost and I should be catching up on work, but instead I've been staring at this clusterfawk for the past 20 minutes. I'm going home.
my wild ass guess is its some sort of internal "supercharger" with a crazy double lobed cam and valve setup for the left bank and that the plugs and wires are just for show.Quote:
Originally Posted by BMFScout