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Well, Saturn isn't still putting Pre-WWII flatheads in.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:50:59
In Reply to: Maybe, No Snaab, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:32:51
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Our 1963(?) Lark convertible had a flathead six. Studebaker tried but it didn't have the capital to design new basic engines with overhead valves.
Neatest thing I observed about a Saturn was the clever way they did the engine castings. They make a dummy block out of styrofoam with the steel cylinder liners fitted into it, bury it in sand, then when they pour the molten aluminum in the styrofoam instantly flashes to vapor and the aluminum takes its place.
The external texture of the block still looked just like the outside of a styrofoam cooler, individual styrofoam beads still visible, but made of aluminum.
Probably every maker doing aluminum engines does the same thing now.
posted by 72.73.8...
Posts in this Thread:
- Crystal Ball into the future of C900 values?, Saaber, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:04:49
- Re: Crystal Ball into the future of C900 values?, Ed_F
, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:39:20 - There's a pattern to how it happens, No Snaab, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:23:40
- Re: There's a pattern to how it happens, turbocon86, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:14:25
- Maybe, No Snaab, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:32:51
- Well, Saturn isn't still putting Pre-WWII flatheads in., RayF, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:50:59 <-- Viewing This Message
- Torvair, turbocon86, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:01:43
- New to me, No Snaab, Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:24:12
- A friend of mine just paid $10,000 for a '94 vert..., Saab Junkie, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:34:58
- Re: Crystal Ball into the future of C900 values?, trama
, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:26:58 - 1/2 off: 'rescue' link from General BB (link), Siegfried, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:04:34
- They changed the interface (new link), Siegfried, Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:01:34
- Me three, vvack0matic
, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:32:50 - Me, too, swede-murphy
, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:27:15 - Me, Steinway, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:59:58
- Re: Crystal Ball into the future of C900 values?, Peter Martin
, Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:49:18
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