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Re: Dump Truck Engines

To: Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Dump Truck Engines
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 07:33:20 -0700
Dick,
I can identify with your first rod. I had a 1946 Chevy pickup that was
my first tow vehicle. I acquired a 292 cu. in. Jimmy that had been
massaged a bit, which included 9.5-1 pistons and a two carb manifold. It
was hooked up to an Olds 4-speed Hydro. It had unbelievable torque. I
raced cars (and won) from stop signs while towing the race car. I later
changed it out for a 330 cu. in. Olds. The Jimmy was ever bit as strong
as the Olds in the torque category.
Tom (19 days 'til Speedweek)

Dick Jurkowski wrote:
> 
> My first car was a 1949 Chev that my dad helped
> me put a 302 Jimmy in.  It was a gas engine
> though.  Is this the same motor you guys are
> talking about?  If so, that was the true stealth
> weapon of the 40s and 50s. It just took a little
> sledge hammer work, and moving the radiator
> forwar a little to get it in.  Dad hogged out the
> intake manifold and put some kind of 2-bbl carb
> on it - I think it came from a straight 8 Buick
> or something. Most guys thought the motor was
> just a plaine jane chevy, but I chewed up every
> flathead rod in town.  Even when the Chev v8 came
> out in 55, it was two years before anybody around
> town did enough soup-up to any of them to take my
> jimmy-powered chev.  As a mater of fact, the
> first car ever to beat me was a 57 chev with a
> paxton blower on it.  That jimmy had some kind of
> torque!!
> Dick J
> 
>

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