DeTomaso Mailing List: June 99, Message #198

Amazing.  Did GMC provide the siamese casting for the block, or was it an
aftermarket deal
(translation- can we get one for the Pantera? ;-)

Kirby Schrader wrote:

> 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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