On Wednesday 26 November 2014 04:16:05 Gregg Eshelman did opine And Gene did reply: > On 11/26/2014 12:10 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Is GM's patent on hydraulic roller tappets still in force? They were > > royalty hungry yet in the late 40's & clear into the 70's with that, > > first designed and used in the 35 V16 engines they made for the > > biggest Caddies from 35 to 37. Except for its poured rod bearings, > > that engine could be made up nearly 300 horses from its original > > 165, then 185, by swapping the rods out for inserted versions, > > swapping the oil pumps plumbing around to feed a drilled crankshaft, > > giving it excellent longevity, and swapping the intake manifolds > > from side to side, which put the carb flanges upright & replace the > > OEM updraft Marvel-Shebler carbs with a pair of bolt them on, > > Stromberg 48's, the 94's big brother. > > Sounds a bit like what Jay Leno had done to the big engine in his > "Blastolene Special". The Continental AV1790-5B M47 Patton tank engine > originally produced around 800 horsepower and in the car got around 2~3 > MPG. > > After Leno had the Greyhound bus transmission replaced with a six speed > Allison automatic (used in semi tractors), installed fuel injection and > twin turbochargers, it doubled the horsepower to 1600 and gained 100% > MPG increase to 5 MPG. > > http://uncommonengineering.com/ Crazy things done to flathead Ford and > Hudson straight 6 engines by a person who used to build engines for > Indy cars.
Now there is true artistry in hard metal. > Imagine a 308 Hudson with added webs in the block for a custom 7 > bearing crankshaft, EFI and a 6-71 supercharger. ;-) > > He's also revived the ARDUN overhead valve heads for Ford flathead V8s > and that totally insane flathead intake that mounts TWO superchargers. > Probably best to use that on the somewhat stronger Mercury version of > the flatty. > > Then there's his custom heads and camshaft that changes the in block > intake valves to exhausts (for 16 exhaust valves) and has one huge, > centrally located intake valve per cylinder. > > It takes no imagination at all to assume that nothing this guy builds > is in any way inexpensive. Yeah, bring big bills, in 2 or 3 little red wagons. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
