I think someone already got it, right? You dropped a big time hint in the title of the thread. I knew already, so I didn't have to guess (funner to let people try to guess.) Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
The engines on a stand. Used to set up engines like that to sell even a stock 2 barrel 283 will really rip with just a flexplate.
Some one did give two names and one was correct but the only acknowledgment I gave them was a like to it. The title of this thread "was" a deception to draw readers in first and for most. Now let's move on. After the back side of the engine in question received a proper I.D. I felt I owed those that were disappointed by this thread not being what they thought it was. So I found something to entertain everyone's fascination with the female backside and it worked. Are you saying you knew from this "What Actress/Entertainer does this Booty belong to ?" on reply #16 is how you knew already ?
Looks like someone made a test stand, and cut the flexplate out so they could see things like that rear freeze plug (seals end of cam bore). The First generation AMC V-8s (AMC was formed in 1954, V-8s were first made in late 1956) are internally balanced, so the light flexplate wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't run it that way in a car, but should be okay if all it's doing is turning the engine with the starter. You don't have to tear it down to change the rear seal. It uses a rope seal, typical of all engines in the 50s. Neoprene seals didn't come out until the 60s. Ideally you take the crank out to change the seal, but it CAN be done without pulling the crank. More likely to have leaks that way though, best to remove the crank to change a rope seal in ANY rope seal engine.
On post #16, can you give us the year that first came out and why the flywheel is so much different ?
I knew it was JLo, (had seen images of that performance), but would rather it had been Charo (with lots of "cootchy-cootchy"), and it reminded me of watching tv in the 70's, where she seemed to pop up everywhere. Or even Brett Somers, I'm kind of JLo'ed out at this point. (Supposedly), God (ya the big guy himself), through divine intervention, gave George Romney and his special underwear, (not sure if a lizard delivered the information or not), a V8 for Nash/Hudson in 1956 (250 ci), then in '57 a 327 ci. The '57 Rambler Rebel w/327 was only beaten in 0-60 mph Motor Trend trials (domestic production cars) by Corvette w/ fuel-injected 283. It was a light car with a pretty powerful motor. That would be a cool car to find these days. I wonder if anyone can id the year of that AMC motor in the pic. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Is the fact that the 225 hp Nash Fireball was also a popular marine engine provide any clue? It doesn't really explain the hacked flexplate, but it could have had a marine bellhousing they considered to be useless, so they kept only the the part needed to hold the starter. Here's what they look like in my 1958 Chris Craft
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