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Re: Lotus TC motor

To: Dick Carlson <atrltd@earthlink.net>, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Lotus TC motor
From: Jack Rubin <jrubin@ryr.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 23:45:40 -0600
moderate racing?  moderate racing!!?
yeah, right...

At 08:41 AM 12/8/96 -0800, Dick Carlson wrote:
>Harold,
> You need a Dave Bean catalog. It will answer a lot of your questions.
>However, I'll give some of them a shot. Bare Weber heads are about
>$2500. Don't know the price of the Stromberg. The TC has a forged crank,
>the pushrod motor does not. The TC is a bored-out 1500 pushrod,
>essentially, and its displacement is 1558cc. The crossflow pushrod uses
>a taller block, with a stroker crank. The crossflow crank would
>physically fit, but wouldn't work in the shorter block. The way to get
>greater displacement in the 1498 and 1558 motors is thru boring. Twin
>Cam rods, with the 125E part numbers, are good for moderate racing, as
>is the TC crank. For pistons, get a good forged product. I use, and JAE
>sells, JE pistons (same as the Winston Cup boys use).
>-- 
> Dick Carlson, Age & Treachery Racing, Ltd, World HQ, Kansas City
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/atrltd
>
>
>

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