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Jimini, thanks for the mention of my banger book! Believe it or don't, I have sold over 1600 books, to places you wouldn't even believe. One...
I have run a B block, C crank (drilled for pressure) for many years, on the 1/4 mile and the salt. I turn it consistently 6,000+ RPM, for a long...
That's the first I've heard about Joe using patterns by John Gerber, but it wouldn't surprise me. Joe did use the Morales, Rutherford and...
That is a stagger-valve, made from something that I can't remember. Seems it was a foreign engine of some kind. He did build his own 16-valve...
jim1932, I've never seen any re-pop iron heads until very recently, by Tod. Yours might have gone out the back door of Winfirld's shop???
Winfield heads were stamped on the boss between #1 and #3 plug, yours is not stamped. The first number indicated the compression ratio, the rest...
The marking of early Winfield cams is unknown to me but in a roadster you may like to have a hot cam? You need the duration and lift to determine...
No, Winfield carbs are drilled for either updraft or downdraft, the difference is where the holes are drilled. Look on your fuel bowl, it will be...
I don't think (?) mine has the cast-in number but the size (BB on mine) is stamped in. All different size carbs had a different spread on the...
I ran such a manifold for many years. I didn't have a BB carb so made a tapered adapter and ran a S-C-D carb. It worked great, had good power,...
Probably not, I don't travel well yet.
25 Mercury, Very nice! including the DSM coil.
flyin-t, e-mail me at jimb4e4@gmail.com thanks!
Do you know when the Winfield Weekends started? Dan and I went on several but missed the first of them. Also do know of where the tapes of those...
Yes. Dan had been gathering material for quite awhile, with a little help from Kem Robertson. Kem is a researcher of things "banger". When Dan...
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