DeTomaso Mailing List: June 99, Message #201

Oh Yeah?  Well check it o-u-u-t :
http://www.falconerengines.com/

And , , ,
http://warbird.com/papa51.html

Temporary insanity is perfectly normal under the circumstances, thoughts of
shoehorning such a motor into a pantera , , , well it probably won't work!
Just don't tell Weldon B. or we'le all find out!

After visiting these sites and getting invites, , ,  I think I will make it
to Oshgosh this summer.  When are the best days to watch, arrival or
departure days?

TW
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Al Chelini wrote:

> 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
> >
> > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> > Kirby Schrader                       kschrader@slb.com
> >                                       kschrader@earthlink.net
> > '71 Pantera #1661
> > '78 Longchamp GTS #3001 Sheetmetal work underway
> > '90 Thunderbird 35th anniversary special
> > http://members.tripod.com/~kschrader/index.html