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Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out
From: "Evan Ruff" <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:17:42 -0400
Wait! I've got it! We'll take a small-block chevy, mat it to a German
transmission and slap it into an italian car. BRILLIANT.

Detomaso in the '04,
Evan

-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jamie Costello
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:13 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out



Yeah, I know ... What WAS BL thinking with those MGBGT-V8s and the TR-8?
;-).

Over here, Ford 5 litre V8s and Chevy 5.7 litre V8s made it into everything:
Jag XK/XJ's, MGBs, Rovers, etc.

Jamie
Fort Myers, FL


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:58 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Selling out


>
> 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
>
> On 4 Aug 2004, at 16:43, Jim Sharp wrote:
>
> >
> > A little study of the development history of the Cobra might have been
> > helpful. Shelby went though similar things after shoving a high
> > horsepower American V8 into a Brit sports car.
> >
> > Even the first cars were fast as H%!! but you could watch the chassis
> > disintegrate around the engine...
> >
> > --
> > Jim
> <|_:-)_|>
>
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
>
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