> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/03/26 Wed PM 11:45:45 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: The psychology of fanbois > > > ----- 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.
Aluminium head/barrel? Cast iron generally went out for motorcycle crankcases pre WWI. Although you are talking HD.... ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- 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.
