Sounds like the mother of all windage plates to me.
Sid
>From: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
>Reply-To: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
>To: "snyler" <marc@animalfirm.com>, "roadster List"
><datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Girdle
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:54:55 -0700
>
>The person I bought my Roadster from told me (At the time) that the
>Roadsters that were raced had Girdles.
>He told me they were a 1" piece of Aluminum that was bolted between the
>Block and the Oil Pan. It had cutouts for the crankshaft to turn. It was
>for the high torque they were running, so the block would stay together.
>So
>I was told. Maybe it was a prelude to the cast Aluminum Oil Pan.
>Pat
>-----Original Message-----
>From: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
>To: Patrick P. Castronovo <slick1@mohaveaz.com>; roadster List
><datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 2:10 PM
>Subject: Re: Girdle
>
>
> >Patrick P. Castronovo wrote
> >
> >>Hey List!
> >> I know that ya'll heard of a car having a bra, I heard
>that
> >>the roadsters had a Girdle at one time in the early days.
> >>Pat
> >>
> >The way some leak, they need a diaper.
> >-Marc T.
> >
> >==========================================================================
> >Marc Tyler
> >Designer,
> >Animal Firm
> >830-324-6578
> >www.animalfirm.com
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