Joe,
If you're willing to tolerate an engine with something like 20:1
compression... yeah, it's a diesel, that's the ticket!
Seriously, I thought someone on the list earlier had said that the 1500 used
"shorter" pistons... which would make me think the 1300 and 1500 blocks were
the same height. I have a bunch of 1500s, and someone I know (right Suz?)
has several 1300s of various pedigrees.... I guess I could take this
question and run with it (just not carrying a block around, ok).
Jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Curry [SMTP:spitlist@gte.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 1:44 PM
> To: Mark J Bradakis
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: identifying early Spit cranks?
>
> Mark,
> So that means that if one were so deviously inclined, he could take a
> late 1300 block and fit it with all the innards of a 1500 and have a
> cheater engine. Right? 8^)
>
> Joe
>
> Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> >
> > Oh, and if the crank won't fit your 1500 block, it is obviously not
> > a late 1296 crank. The Mark 4 1296 block is basically the same casting
> > as the 1500, the extra displacement comes from stroking the crank.
> >
> > mjb.
>
> --
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>
> -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
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