To bomb the list, one merely sends the email to
vintage-race@autox.team.net, a practice which, as an ISP employee, I am
greatly in favor of :)
No spam, mind you - just old fast car stuff...
Brian
>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:27:20 -0500
>From: Larry Gallo <agallo@pcfl.net>
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>To: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
>Subject: Re: IN RE: Mechanical Failures
>
>Au contraire:
>Buick-Olds-Pontiac aluminum 215 inch V8 was offered in 1961 model
>year, as discussed and analyzed in Nov 1960 Sports Cars Illustrated.
>We bought a new V8 Lark Wagon that Nov ('60), after evaluating each.
>By 1962 it was in turbocharged form on the Olds Jetfire intermediate.
>By 1963 it was already abandoned by Pontiac in favor of their shrunken
>326 version of the 389, and jilted by Olds in favor of a similar 330 off
>their bigblock. It was in Reventlow's midengined Scarab by 62, and
>already an Aussie Repco in the mid sixties. It resurfaced as a much
>massaged Rover in 64, the year after Buick opted for their cheesy
>90 deg. evenfire iron V6 198 inch spinoff. FWIW, probably not much...
>
>Anyway, correct me if I am wrong -- a readily available Weber DCOE
>is probably cheaper to acquire than a Moss newly manufactured SU
>setup. And period correct for almost anything. So I like VARAC's
>approach to use of it...
>
>Posted to Brian only -- I don't know how to bomb the list....
>
>
>Brian Evans wrote:
>
> > >VARAC regs allow any period speed equipment, including aftermarket heads
> > >and webers,
>
> > > Probably, if they ran
> > >that way in the period applicable to their class (the bugeye would have a
> > >problem as that class ends at 1961, and the 215 olds wasn't around
> till the
> > >mid '60s)
>
>
Brian Evans
Director, Strategic Accounts
UUNET, A WorldCom Company
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