DeTomaso Mailing List: June 99, Message #191

At 7:29 -0400 9/6/99, Al Chelini wrote:
>Have you ever listened hard to an old twin Beech take off? Kind of
>reminds me of an airborne Harley.You can hear the induvidual cylinders
>fire.  Al.

Well, my personal favorite was back when I was working on a farm in
Clovis, New Mexico trying to earn enough money to get through
college. The farm owner was experimenting with two approaches to his
irrigation pump engines. One method was to buy the Minneapolis Moline
style of industrial engines, run them at low rpm and gear up the pump
to get enough flow. Then rebuild the engines when they got tired.

The other was to buy off the shelf 428's, 454's and the GMC V6 and
V12's. The V12's were just two V6's cast together and had twin
distributors, twin carbs, four exhaust manifolds, etc. He ran them on
natural gas.

The scenario was that the sand in the water would wear out the pump
impeller, so to get the flow back up, they'd rev the engine higher.
This was repeated until the engine or the pump finally went south and
then they'd throw the whole lot away.

I think you'd all be impressed driving by a 702 cu.in. V12 GMC bolted
to the ground and running a booster pump at night. Screaming at
around 6200 rpm, two feet of blue flame coming out of the four header
pipes, half the head and all the headers cherry red... and the noise!
Left quite an impression on me....

:-))))

FWIW,

Kirby

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