>Compression is the bane of hand-cranking. I would have really liked
>to retain the ability to hand-crank my 109 after the conversion, but
>the reality is that it would take two strong men and a boy to crank my
>10.25:1 compression V8. (can you say "Fill 'er up with Premium"?)
>You gain some things, and lose others when you change engines.
You know in the 20 years I had a 2.25 engine in my LR I never once had
occasion to use the hand crank. So I do not miss it in the slightest.
Not being obsesed with raw power like Lonn & some others are ( I think 3X
the rated 2.25L HP is acceptable performance), I ended up with the low
compression version of the 302. And yes I can say "Fill'er up with
regular please".
And I can also look the coiler Land Rover owners straight and the eye and
say "Is that all the fuel milage you get? And you only have how much
HP?". I can almost do it with a straight face.
And yes I can say hybrid
TeriAnn Wakeman Marigold Ltd.
Santa Cruz, California Web design, site updating, testing
webmaster@overlander.net search engine optimization, graphics
and more
http://www.overlander.net/Marigold/index.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Thu Apr 12 2001 - 11:49:14 EDT