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Big engines are back - With fuel efficiency rising, V8 brawn is hot option for cars, trucks
Detroit Free Press ^
| 1/15/04
| Mark Phelan
Posted on 01/15/2004 9:04:15 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:13:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: husky ed
You just had to go and post a picture of a SOHC didn't you?
Now I'll be thinking about that all day instead of sex. Just for you, ed... a nudie pic!
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posted on
01/16/2004 8:39:23 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: MileHi
I'm really thinking about starting a coupe project car, 66-70 body. Unless you *really* like the looks of the "original" '65-'66 body style, you'll find the '67 and later cars a bit easier to work with. One big reason is the "flatter" shock towers in the '67 and later cars, so designed to allow a big block to be shoehorned in. The '67 and later cars also have a better system for adjusting front wheel alignment (though that feature can be added to the '65-'66 cars, too - there are kits available from Pro-Motorsports Engineering in Sandy, Utah).
I've got a 351 Windsor in a '65 Fastback, but only because some previous owner notched the shock towers with a cutting torch. I'll be replacing the shock towers soon - and putting a 289 back in. Stock specs, of course (*cough*). :^)
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posted on
01/16/2004 8:58:45 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Charles Martel
Thanks. I realy like the '65-66 bodies, but through '70 I like all of them. Might be a fun project.
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posted on
01/16/2004 11:17:58 AM PST
by
MileHi
To: Charles Martel
Now that's a HEMI!
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posted on
01/16/2004 11:19:58 AM PST
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: husky ed
And yes I do know they called it a "semi-Hemi".
But NASCAR still had to outlaw it to keep it from kicking the crap out of GM and Dodge on the high banks.
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posted on
01/16/2004 11:26:33 AM PST
by
husky ed
(FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
To: oceanview
"GM and Ford are boring out V8s and still using overhead valve engines."
Not true. Ford is making fine SOHC and DOHC V8's. GM on the other hand is not. THe LS motors are nice though.
To: husky ed
NASCAR still had to outlaw it to keep it from kicking the crap out of GM and Dodge on the high banks. What a pity that the super-sideoiler never got a chance to prove itself on the long ovals. A bunch of them did end up at the drag strip, though. I'm amazed at the number of SOHC engines that continue to turn up, new in the crate. Either there were a lot of them that were never utilized, or a few guys are passing a small handful of the engines around (perhaps they can't bring themselves to actually bolt it in and crank it up. I'd do it in a heartbeat.)
I would've loved to see the King Cobra make it to production, too (not the decal-laden Mustang II, but the NASCAR-bound slope-nosed Torino).
Speaking of Cobras, though, it looks like ol' Carroll intends to go out with a bang:
Click here for story: 2005 Shelby Cobra Concept Car
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posted on
01/16/2004 2:36:12 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
In Germany, they call this active safety, which sounds much more socially responsible and clinical, but the bottom line is the same the world over: People want the most powerful car or truck they can afford to buy and operate.
The accelerator has save me more times than my brakes have. Not last week. A nice 87 YO lady turned left in front of my pristine, low mileage 80k, sporty, paid for, neo-classic, 1988 ElDorado. The 4.5L V8 in that little machine had a throaty roar. People alway thought it was big because it looked like a Cadi. I actually was about the size of a Camaro and sat almost a foot lower at the roof than an Accord or Tauraus. I miss her.
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posted on
01/24/2004 2:25:16 PM PST
by
AdA$tra
(Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse....)
To: Condor51
When we got home I searched all detroit brands and found that Merc's were the only car with duel exhausts (Cop cars excluded natch)!?! As I recall, it also had a big hunkin V-8 with something like 350hp(?). WAY TO GO DETROIT. It's muscle car redux! In the early 80's, I had a '73 Mercury Comet. 302-V8 in a compact-car frame. It noticed it would out-accelerate current-model Corvettes on the street. It got totalled by a drunken trucker (I wasn't in it at the time). I still miss it.
To: Charles Martel
In order to "see" your jpg's people must "visit" the link first.
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
This is great news!
I have a 1998 Z28 With the LS1 5.7 engine that rocks and rolls. Does anyone think that they will bring back the Camaro?
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posted on
01/24/2004 2:58:09 PM PST
by
corlorde
(Without the home of the brave, there would be no land of the free)
To: corlorde
I've been told so. Pontiac will as well.
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