----- Original Message ----- From: "John Francis" Subject: Re: The psychology of fanbois
> > My 1990 Range Rover expired in 2003, with a warped block. > It was going to cost more to fix it than the car would be worth. > > That was the old aluminium V8, based originally on a Buick design. > One presumes that the old cast iron design didn't lend itself to being transformed into an aluminium engine. I had a first generation Harley Davidson aluminum block 80 CID that was basically a recasting of the old iron block 74 inch shovel head. The engine was junk, which was disappointing, considering how good my 80 inch iron block that I had before it was. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
