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Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 21:56:15 +0000
Clutch?  We didn't have no stinkin' clutch!  There was no practical way to mate 
the Chevy V-8 to the Triumph OD tranny, so besides stuffing in the engine, we 
shoved in a 4-speed automatic.  Had to shorten the driveshaft and move some 
brake lines and exhaust pipes and rearrange the interior a little bit, but it 
fit.  Just way too much torque for the back end.  It was an old, beat-up TR-6 
anyway.  The good one is in the garage downstairs.

Walt, master of monkey wrenches

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston


-------------- Original message from Chris Barker : -------------- 

> 
> Surely it would not have been the bhp that did for the diff? It would 
> have been the torque as you dropped the clutch. Anyway, why spoil a 
> lovely, pukka sports car with some ghastly V-8? ;-) 
> 
> Chris 
> 
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