[Shotimes] Re: Peter Egan Thoughts

[Ron Porter]

That's why I understand the bits in American Chopper when they fire up a
bike for the first time. If you haven't ever installed a new/rebuilt engine,
you wouldn't understand!!

Ron Porter

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Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:06 PM
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Subject: [Shotimes] Re: Peter Egan Thoughts


"When starting the engine for the first time  after the 
rebuild, I reached for the starter button and felt like a  
Neanderthal Man.  Shaking a stick at a Woolly Mammoth having 
never  seen one before, and wondering what would happen."

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First one I ever rebuilt singlehandedly was a Corvair pancake motor.   The 
oil pump was driven off the end of the distributor drive shaft in that
motor, 
you could fab up a shaft to put in your drill, then spin the oil pump to
run 
oil everywhere through the engine before you started it.  Which I did,  then

put the distrib back in but cranked in a tad too much static advance.   Went
to 
fire it up, I had put a snarky cam in it and the valves were tight --  it
lit 
right away, and as soon as I goosed it, WOOSH it shot fire  straight up out 
all 4 of the 1v Rochesters!
 
Igor the Neanderthal would have booked straight back to his cave.  Big  mojo

;-)
 
Cheers,
Mark LaBarre