Chevy Vega Re: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Aug 2 07:40:02 2001

> DQ wrote:
>
> [Memory lane, snipped]
>
> Thanks for that ;-)
>
> > I still get chills when I hear the blower on the 327 on Mad Max's
> > car in the first movie... didn't that have an Edelbrock manifold?
>
> I remember thinking that it looked like it had a 6-71 on it, and
> Edelbrock certainly makes (or at least made) manifolds for suck-through
> applications of the 6-71. However I also remember the blower being
> clutched, which made little sense -- unless it was a blow-through
> application with some sort of bypass for when the blower was shut
> down.
>
> Whatever. It had that nice 6-71 whine, which is what _really_ matters :-)

Brrr..!

:-)
Received on Thu Aug 02 2001 - 07:40:02 BST

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