I am looking for one of those $500 or 600 injector set
ups for a rat motor now. If anyone hears of one in
that price range please let me know.
--- ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
> Hi Dave, and List, I went out and bought the October
> number like you
> said, and after a hiatus of 30 years or so since Hot
> Rod went away and
> left me, I guess it's time to send in my sub again.
>
> Enjoyed the Tom Ivo piece. Saw him run his
> four-Buick car once up in
> Minneapolis 40 years ago. I remember he carried it
> around on an open
> trailer, which had several spare blocks bolted under
> it just in case. I
> like interview articles.
>
> Enjoyed the Hemi history. Wish someone had said
> just how much the early
> iron Chrysler weighed stock, they all just said it
> was "so heavy".
> Maybe someone on the List knows. I do recall first
> hand that one iron
> early Hemi head was about all a man could readily
> pick up alone. Let me
> here mention, while we're thinking engine weights,
> that "The V-8 Album"
> of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America, p. 94, gives
> the weight of a big
> Ford Flathead V-8 as 575 lbs., and of a V-8 60 as
> 400 lbs. I am
> guessing that both were weighed complete, ready to
> run, but without
> flywheels.
>
> Dave, your main feature in the Hot Rod under review,
> your buildup of a
> junkyard Chevy Big Block Rat motor, is EXCELLENT!
> You put your finger
> RIGHT on what the limited-budget(that's most of us)
> Rodder today wants
> to know. America is covered with scrapyards with
> Rat engines going
> cheap, and as you spelled out clearly, people can
> build powerful,
> reliable race engines from them. Younger men and
> women who want to run
> something at Maxton, El Mirage or Bonneville on a
> budget ought to look
> at one of these Rats. If they don't want to go the
> blower route, I bet
> for $500 or $600 they can get a used Hilborn
> injector and pump that will
> work fine, build their own headers, get a low-bucks
> roadster, and run
> about 170 or more at Maxton.
>
> You're on the right track with Hot Rod, Dave, keep
> it up!! Regards from
> Ardun Bill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
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