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To: wmtsmith@landracing.com, Richard Fox <v4gr@rcn.com>,
Subject: GMC V12
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:15:13 -0800 (PST)
Oil industry eh?  Hmmm, should be a lot of them lying around in fields and junk 
yards here. That would be an interesting motor to play with.  Put about eight 
turbos on it -  -  hee hee
Dick J In East Texas
 wmtsmith@landracing.com wrote:I used to work on them---at one time in the eary 
'60s 90% of the propane transports in Tx. were those things--the oil companies 
gave free propane to the transports as "overage" when they stopped it was 
amazing how fast they deaappeared. got about 3mpg. 

712 cu in 
Best as I remember 275 hp @2800 around 500+ torque at 1800 rpm 4 heads two 
intakes on crank one cam --two headed distribitor wmts
They used 5 sp trans didn't need two speed rears for hwy use used 3 speed rears 
for on-off
> 
> From: Dick J 



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