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Had lunch with Isky today, And yes he did buy the company (because it was cheap and he could), Continued its operation with the same people in house, but got to be too much work and closed the doors, Still has some intake patterns at the cam shop
Ha! I recall an idiot in High School that was always talking about his Olds...He had an intake that he said he bought in L.A., from STROKER McGURK himself! Wonder if that character Tom Medley made the sale...
Cool you still have your dad's old hot rod literature. My Father and Mother found this 1949 Offenhauser catalog, with an Edmunds supplement in a vintage book and gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago - I had a man give me this 1958 Cragar catalog-
Frank McGurk was absolutely the guy for fast GMC 6 machines, like for sprint cars....he built two Wayne head, Hilborn injected, Vertex Mag straight methonal engines for us in 1965....the head we had was early 216 pattern, so he redrilled the later block so it would fit, bored out INTO the water jackets to give us 282 inches. Unbelievable torque, but no way to keep the sleeves up tight when hot, we finally gave up.
Two years ago Ed and I went looking for those patterns after lunch. after three hours, we called off the search when another Isky employee remembered he sold all the stuff to someone about 15 years ago. missed the boat on that one.
Isky helped McGurg develop his dual pattern Chevy 6 cams. I'm running this one in my Avatar '49's 216. (This is more cam than is possible on available modern cores.)
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