Re: Std 8 engine rebuild - 1929 or 1936?

Posted by DavidM On 2012/8/26 18:06:13

Mal,

It would be interesting to know a little more about your speedster project. I am guessing the rationale is to use up a collection of parts that are not sufficient to build a complete car.

But the idea of building a car with sporting pretensions using truck sized components and huge unsprung weight is intriguing. Still Packard had a go at this with the 626 & 734 speedsters.

However regardless of whether you use the 1929 or 1936 engine they both are best at no more than about 2000 rpm. If the car is to have a sporty feel it would be better to be able to rev feely at much more than this. I doubt that either engine could be modified to do this without wrecking it.

If you make it as light as possible with a high ratio diff it will go well enough and look good.

I hope you keeps us posted on the project through to completion.