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Re: MOTOR PERFORMANCE

To: DrMayf <drmayf@teknett.com>
Subject: Re: MOTOR PERFORMANCE
From: Tony McNulty <t.mcnulty@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:32:42 -0500
NxxOx? Into a 40-year-old 260?  Whoo --- how about an engine all over 
the road?

Best way is the earlier advice -- overhaul and shoebox the original 260 
and put a 5.0 crate motor in there-- just to make sure that a restorer 
can get back to the original in some unforseeable time frame.

That said -- anyone got any good advice on preserving an overhauled and 
stored engine?  One or more of the valves are going to be left open no 
matter where the engine stops, and that's a passage for moisture 
intrusion ... etc, etc, etc.  What's normally done to counteract this 
kind of impending damage -- leave the engine in pieces in an oil blanket 
of some kind?

Tony M
B382001321
Original Owner





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