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Subject:Re: 96mm Jugs for 1700 (f)
From:Bob Polys
Date:Wed, 1 Nov 1995 13:00:50 -0600

At 11:07 AM 11/1/95 -0600, you wrote:
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>>>The kit will give you a whopping extra 2311cc in capacity (to around 
>19100cc
>>>from memory) and is probably the biggest bang for buck you can get with a
>>>1700.
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>>19,100cc's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     WOW!!!!!!!              I WANT ONE OF
>>THOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can you imagine how fast the Westy would go with this?
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>Not very. The crankshaft would stand still, and the Westy would spin over 
>and over very quickly.   :)
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Reminds me of some of my mispent youth reading my dad's old Mechanix
Illustrated magazines.  I remember articles about people installing surplus
WWII airplane engines in various vehicles.  I think these were immense
Allison engines, but I could be mistaken.  Its been over twenty five years
since we threw these out. :(