EvanB wrote: What I saw was the NA style taillights on a NC Miata. http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=456915
I was so wrong! I don't think I'd ever spent much time looking at NC Miatas..that side view made me think it was a modified RX-8 (front fender creases, I've never cared for that), or a melted plastic copy of a diffuser back near the pipes.
I thought tea was supposed to make you calm. Someone missed their stop this morning and threw their mug at the windshield. 
Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote:
I had to go and find where that was. Tobermory, Ontario. I want to know why somebody isn't fishing the wreck in the picture.
Rob_Mopar wrote:RossD wrote:It's a nailhead Buick setup with reverse flow heads. Intake is being forced thought what was the exhaust ports via crank snout driven blower. Exhaust out the intake ports. This is how it was originally intended to work:Gasoline wrote:what the hell is that!?!? Did they put the cam in backwards? Or is that a V8 I don't recongnize?
Men call it a Potvin. Looks like its running 4 Stromberg 97s.
Appleseed wrote:Rob_Mopar wrote:Men call it a Potvin. Looks like its running 4 Stromberg 97s.RossD wrote:It's a nailhead Buick setup with reverse flow heads. Intake is being forced thought what was the exhaust ports via crank snout driven blower. Exhaust out the intake ports. This is how it was originally intended to work:Gasoline wrote:what the hell is that!?!? Did they put the cam in backwards? Or is that a V8 I don't recongnize?
Or this one running "normally" with a four pot injector.
Brett_Murphy wrote:Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote:I had to go and find where that was. Tobermory, Ontario. I want to know why somebody isn't fishing the wreck in the picture.
Just off shore from me. Cape Fear, I mean.
Appleseed wrote:
Wasn't sure that's a genuine Potvin since the blower is right side up, not rotated 90* as the Potvin mount is designed. I'm thinking it's a fabricated crank driven setup since they went through the trouble to set the motor to breath in through the exhaust ports.
I thought reverse-flow heads were slightly common on hotrodded nailheads, because of the differing port sizes. I don't think that decision was made because of a packaging issue. Weird '50s and '60s draggers are not my forte, however.
Wally wrote:
My daughter grabbed the magazine and asked me to come in and read with her. Teaching her young!!
Keith Tanner wrote:EvanB wrote:It is SO MUCH BETTER! The factory ones look like APC crap. Unfortunately, Jon claims there are only something like three sets of these extant. I'm not sure if they're modified NC lights or if some craftsman in a tiny shop in Japan carefully crafted them from scratch, but just before he put them on his car I was commenting that the NC really needs aftermarket lights that look like NA ones.
Yeah he's saying they're Barchettas or something. I think they're incredible and makes the car look WAY different. Makes it look like a more muscular NA, which i LOVE.
Anyways... my hotlink today involves what i think will happen to my MSM (minus the wing, and will be a normal hardtop) if nobody buys it.
Jet Stream Clubman R.
Fighting the window regulator in a 56 Continental right now.
In reply to ditchdigger:
Did they have some sort of crazy complicated power window arrangement in '56?
Brett_Murphy wrote:Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote:I had to go and find where that was. Tobermory, Ontario. I want to know why somebody isn't fishing the wreck in the picture.
That looked like Ontario to me, there's a wreck near my parent's cottage just below the surface like that and the water looks familiar. "Ours" is an old steamer that burned so it's just the ribs. I love seeing it lurking down there.
Here's the "before".
914Driver wrote:
I shouldn't, but I like this for some reason.
Now this:
on the other hand is just, NO.
ransom wrote: In reply to ditchdigger: Did they have some sort of crazy complicated power window arrangement in '56?
Just 1000 pieces of heavy chrome trim in the way. I counted 48 screws that needed to be removed to access the regulator.
914Driver wrote:
You win the internets for the day
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