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Ahhhh The pipes, last pic does it for me as I have the same.... 8)
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Pipe envy?
I like photo #1, besides i think i went deaf after looking at photo #2.

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alimey4u2 wrote:Ahhhh The pipes, last pic does it for me as I have the same.
I have them too . . . . but I sure wouldn't turn down a set of the first ones either :D

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number 3 for me. Can anyone tell me what engine that is?
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Looks like a ford to me, I'm guessing an older GT40.

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It's an Offy! Says on the valve cover.

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In the 60's GM had a small aluminum V8 in the Buick Special and Olds F85. I believe it was 215ci. They sold the patent rights and tooling (I believe) to Repco/Brabham down under, later then it ended up with British Leyland. They put it in the Rover 3500, Morgan +8 and a few others. That's going on memory.
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Changing the subject again quickly, :?: George,
Yes, the Buick V-8 was a 3.5L (215 cuin). I had a Morgan +8 for a short while with this motor. The tranny was an ancient Jaguar 4-speed with straight cut gears in first. Howled like a pack of wolves.... :roll:

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EMS wrote:It's an Offy! Says on the valve cover.
Actually, I made a hip-shot (once again). :roll: It can't be an Offenhauser, because those were 4-cylinder motors only. You can buy Offenhauser aluminum valve covers to fit Ford V-8s.

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Don't be too hard on yourself Mike... :wink:

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Dave Hansen wrote:Looks like a ford to me, I'm guessing an older GT40.
A crude copy of the original GT-40 maybe

Here's an original MK1 with the 'bundle of snakes'

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I wasn't sure, I seen the evenly spaced exhaust ports and the rear engine layout and made the ford conection. Now that George said it was a Buick engine I remember those having the kinda thin valve covers like that. My dad had one in the garage for years collecting dust waiting for a project to use it in. Never knew someone put one in a rear engine car. Learn something new everyday.

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At the time the pic was taken, the car was owned by Dr Tom and was for sale. It was an extremely clean replica and probably quick because it was very light.
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alimey4u2 wrote:Don't be too hard on yourself Mike... :wink:

http://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/Co ... umbs.shtml
Hmm. I think those pictures of the V8s were actually Ford V8 flathead motors. They were either modified with Offenhauser parts, such as heads, or somebody made a mistake. Offenhauser motors were in direct competition with Ford motors in some classes of race cars. Offenhauser made 4 cylinder overhead cam motors for competition only. Many sanctioning bodies had an equalizer formula so that the popular Ford flathead could run in the same race as the Offies. This would be in "midget" competition. Not everybody could afford an Offie. Anybody could make a flathead. The junkyards were full of them. Only a select few could make a flathead _run_ with the Offies.

As for the"bundle of snakes" exhaust, it had a definite sound. The purpose was to have the exhaust pulses enter an exhaust pipe consecutively. That way the previous pulse helped "pull" the next one. Because of the back and forth timing of V8s, they swap back and forth from bank to bank to get the timing right. In a previous life, I turned wrenches on a late model modified short track car. We ran like that one year, until they were outlawed in our sanctioning body.

As you know, a bike with individual open pipes is louder than one running into a collector. (Even a Harley, if timed right.) The more cylinders the more pulses. If they are all fed into the same collector, things hopefully even out and get quieter, while creating less back pressure and thus more power.

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