[Roadsters] Firing on less than 8, now way OT

[O'Farrell, Fergus]

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Going slightly OT...  ...reminds me of a '70 Ford F100 pickup I had a
few years ago. Someone had swapped in a big block V8. When I got it, one
cylinder was dead and one was dying. Actually ran on five cylinders
before I finally pulled the engine to replace it.  >>

Standard issue in old-timer aircraft mechanics toolbox was a printed set
of instructions for taking a flathead Ford motor and plumbing one bank
of cylinders to be an air compressor, running on the other bank of 4
cylinders.  They'd run for years like that (although I am sure the load
was probably pretty low)