Hey, Kevin; Thanks for showing up. You were the 1st guy I could think of that would know something n not blow smoke. So, have you ever gotten to handle a Riley carb? They do seem somewhat similar, but since I've never seen one in person, much less seen them torn down... pure slop guess. So... the next little project is reverse-engineering & building a Riley... ? . Marcus...
Nice pictures (with the exception of "Photobucket" plastered all over them) Any chance of a video with that thang running?! Would really love that!! 6sally6
I picked up this print after Paul aka povertyflats put it up for sale on FB. Then I had to get the frame at Hobby Lobby.
MR48CHEV : The story that appeared in about 1960 in a sports car magazine(possibly "Road & Track"?) written by Griff Borgeson about the "recovery" of the Packard Cable Specials from France(The car in your picture) was the article that started my "Journey down the Road to Perdition", especially when later I was able to see the actual restored car in Bill Harrah's Collection in Sparks, Nevada in the '70s! It's impossible to separate the car from the artwork in almost any of Harry Miller's cars, but this one is the foremost example of his genius(with kudos to Leo Goosen for turning Miller's ideas into blueprints!)
This is as close as I’ve ever been to a Harry Miller carb, and I saw a pair of Riley’s on a bench once... and sorry, but I’ve got all the projects I can handle right now...
Thanks for posting that. Haven't seen that one. Guys can always hope... . I know about too much piled on a small plate... ;( . BTW; your work is close to unbelievable. If I hadn't seen the pics in progress, I'da had a real hard time buying that someone is that good. I haven't even made it to "hack level" yet. Wish you could bottle those skills... . Marcus...
oh look, it's a can of simoniz. either that or as rodger ward had said, it looks like a python that swallowed a piano some time ago, steve picked up this spare body of the 62 python of smokey yunick-simoniz wax-owens corning fame. the original car never competed at indy but was there two years for practice and ended up being totaled. smokey was the crew chief and simoniz sponsored it. owens corning made the body out of fiberglass. gm was involved evident of the independent rear end similiar to the corvette of the era only it was made from aluminum. what made the car unique was all four wheels would lean going into a turn. steve's version uses a offset quickchange and the wheels don't lean but all in all, i think he did a fine job recreating it going on only photos and the spare body. maybe we'll see more on it in episode 3 of the videos
another offy going back together, small hands and being double jointed helps and a champ rear-end getting altered
I've only got one OFFY part, a connecting rod from a lifetime of parts collecting. When did the 4 valve per cylinder get replaced with two?
Race driver and later team owner Lou Moore asked Leo Goossen to develop a two valve, hemispherical chamber head for the Offy in the late ‘40’s, it was more competitive on short tracks than the four valve, pent roof engines. The longer tracks, and especially Indy benefitted from the high RPM breathing of the four valve chambers.
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