I was told the 183 CI motor was a 1958 Chev industrial 265 block, sleeved to
3 liters for that FIA class break. I thought he switched to the 4 Cyl.
configuration after that 313 mph run. The headers that came into HPC for
coating at the time of the switch were obviously used on all eight
cylinders. I'll contact Donny and ask ... he has been on Fred's crew for
the last few years. Gary can you add something on this? You're pitted next
to him every year.
Wes
on 5/4/01 12:30 PM, Jim Dincau at jdincau@qnet.com wrote:
> Wes,
> I thought the 183 CI motor in Fred's liner was a V-8 with 4 rods and
> pistons removed. I remember Fred making the comment that to do s valve job
> on it all he had to do was swap the heads from side to side.
> Jim in Palmdale, packing the motor home for El mirage
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wester S Potter <wspotter@jps.net>
> To: The Butters Family <bbutters@coldreams.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Fred Larsens Blower
>
>
>> Was he running the same ratio on the engine when it was in the V-8 183
> c.i.
>> configuration? He ran the 313 mph speed with that setup.
>>
>> Wes
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