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Re: FW: Spit w/ V8 Motor<9609240046.AA23952@dayton.wright.edu>

To: Tom Tweed <ak627@dayton.wright.edu>
Subject: Re: FW: Spit w/ V8 Motor<9609240046.AA23952@dayton.wright.edu>
From: "Richard Jackson - Network Technician ext. 2570"<RICHARD.JACKSON@nene.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:43:12 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net, RICHARD.JACKSON@nene.ac.uk
>I have two suggestions regarding this proposed conversion, and you can
>pick either:
>1)  Don't do it !   ...or...
>2)  You'll be sorry !!

>About 20 years ago, a couple of bright, talented buddies of mine, both of
>'em fresh from Tech school, decided to put a Chevy 283 / powerglide (that's
>a common old 2-spd auto trans) into a mid-'60s Fiat coupe. The 283 was a
>common small-block V-8 available at any salvage yard.  Well, they did it.
[snip]
>which is what eventually happened to it...and the best part is, they lived
>to shake their heads and laugh about it later.
      

So no-one thinks it'd be a good idea to put that 383 Chrysler V8(From a dead
Jensen Interceptor) we have in the garage into my newly restored A40 Farina
body shell then????  :-)

Rich
Northampton
England.

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