This is Sheep's engine calling Jim - Are you home ?

[Dave Rosique]

actually, we're really planning on sticking with the s/p 88 x 74, I just like to upset Sheep. Here's some info on the CA Melee
http://www.californiamelee.com/

88 x 74? 88mm stroke and 74mm pistons from a 30hp motor? That'll be a torque monster, but run out of revs at about idling speed! That will upset Sheep!

Say! I never thought of doing it that way. That would light up Sheep's temper. "why the f--k won't this thing run???"
funny you mention that.... because back when Sheep was driving his 1914 IDA motor to Buggy House as his commuter, just before he left one day, a few of us snuck out to his car and swapped the stock distributor rotor out for a Bus rotor that shuts spark off @ 4800rpm or something.
So he warms car up in back lot before leaving work that night, car sounds like a lion trying to get out of its cage back there... we're all waiting snickering and cracking up...we all knew he'd stand on it leaving the driveway...
Sure enough, he rolls down driveway, waits for traffic to clear, gives it a few free revs "WHUUUMP! WHUUMP" and roars out on to Mission Blvd....

"Braaaawwwwwwoooohmmm....   put put put...cough...burp...gargle, pop.... braaaawhaaaaaaaooooommm...put put put POP!!!"... then silence...
we see him coasting back south on Mission back to shop, really PISSED. 

Nice one... how about the old wire from the stoplight switch to the horn trick?

~Dave

[Jim Ratto]

actually, we're really planning on sticking with the s/p 88 x 74, I just like to upset Sheep. Here's some info on the CA Melee
http://www.californiamelee.com/

88 x 74? 88mm stroke and 74mm pistons from a 30hp motor? That'll be a torque monster, but run out of revs at about idling speed! That will upset Sheep!

Say! I never thought of doing it that way. That would light up Sheep's temper. "why the f--k won't this thing run???"
funny you mention that.... because back when Sheep was driving his 1914 IDA motor to Buggy House as his commuter, just before he left one day, a few of us snuck out to his car and swapped the stock distributor rotor out for a Bus rotor that shuts spark off @ 4800rpm or something.
So he warms car up in back lot before leaving work that night, car sounds like a lion trying to get out of its cage back there... we're all waiting snickering and cracking up...we all knew he'd stand on it leaving the driveway...
Sure enough, he rolls down driveway, waits for traffic to clear, gives it a few free revs "WHUUUMP! WHUUMP" and roars out on to Mission Blvd....

"Braaaawwwwwwoooohmmm....   put put put...cough...burp...gargle, pop.... braaaawhaaaaaaaooooommm...put put put POP!!!"... then silence...
we see him coasting back south on Mission back to shop, really PISSED. 

Nice one... how about the old wire from the stoplight switch to the horn trick?

~Dave

hmmm... never tried that (yet).

I did have an ex that really pissed me off. I built her a nice 1776 for her T3 about 2 years prior. She asked me to store car for her, after our falling out. I declined. She got nastier. I yanked the pushrods out of her motor one dark night. Happy driving!

[Rennsurfer]

I yanked the pushrods out of her motor one dark night. Happy driving!

WOW. That's truly awesome! Sounds like something I would've done to my ex before we later became friends. You scare me, Jim... we think way too much alike.

 

[Neil Davies]

I did hear about someone replacing the sump plug with a candle - by the time the oil heats up enough to melt the wax you're a REALLY long way from home...