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Re: Girdle

To: slick1@mohaveaz.com, marc@animalfirm.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Girdle
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:06:31 -0400
Sounds like the mother of all windage plates to me.

Sid


>From: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
>Reply-To: "Patrick P. Castronovo" <slick1@mohaveaz.com>
>To: "snyler" <marc@animalfirm.com>,   "roadster List"  
><datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: Girdle
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 18:54:55 -0700
>
>The person I bought my Roadster from told me (At the time) that the
>Roadsters that were raced had Girdles.
>He told me they were a 1" piece of Aluminum that was bolted between the
>Block and the Oil Pan.  It had cutouts for the crankshaft to turn.  It was
>for the high torque they were running, so the block would stay together.  
>So
>I was told.  Maybe it was a prelude to the cast Aluminum Oil Pan.
>Pat
>-----Original Message-----
>From: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
>To: Patrick P. Castronovo <slick1@mohaveaz.com>; roadster List
><datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 2:10 PM
>Subject: Re: Girdle
>
>
> >Patrick P. Castronovo wrote
> >
> >>Hey List!
> >>               I know that ya'll heard of a car having a bra, I heard 
>that
> >>the roadsters had a Girdle at one time in the early days.
> >>Pat
> >>
> >The way some leak, they need a diaper.
> >-Marc T.
> >
> >==========================================================================
> >Marc Tyler
> >Designer,
> >Animal Firm
> >830-324-6578
> >www.animalfirm.com

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