Oil industry eh? Hmmm, should be a lot of them lying around in fields and junk
yards here. That would be an interesting motor to play with. Put about eight
turbos on it - - hee hee
Dick J In East Texas
wmtsmith@landracing.com wrote:I used to work on them---at one time in the eary
'60s 90% of the propane transports in Tx. were those things--the oil companies
gave free propane to the transports as "overage" when they stopped it was
amazing how fast they deaappeared. got about 3mpg.
712 cu in
Best as I remember 275 hp @2800 around 500+ torque at 1800 rpm 4 heads two
intakes on crank one cam --two headed distribitor wmts
They used 5 sp trans didn't need two speed rears for hwy use used 3 speed rears
for on-off
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> From: Dick J
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