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Old 09-24-2009, 06:07 PM
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Yep. The Tempest was a rear transaxle car, rather like the current corvette. Looks like a traditional 4 speed was plugged in during its racing career.
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Old 09-24-2009, 07:47 PM
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Yep. The Tempest was a rear transaxle car, rather like the current corvette. Looks like a traditional 4 speed was plugged in during its racing career.
Well except for the swing axels vs IRS thing. Pontiac and Olds carried the performance banner for GM in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s. Chev’s 343 and 409 were truck motors. Tthe rat motor was several years away, the mouse roared but was stuck at 327ci while the GTO and 442 were just around the corner.
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^^ Funny stuff!

Isn't this in the woods just behind the Dorki Ghetto?



And wasn't this a Dorki track day repair?? Just can't tell if this is DR's or Talon's handiwork....
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Old 09-25-2009, 09:17 AM
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And wasn't this a Dorki track day repair?? Just can't tell if this is DR's or Talon's handiwork....
I used a setup akin to this to try to keep an oil leak from soaking my front sway bar bushing. Then I went with Delrin. Basically, rather than fix the oil leak, just prepare the entire world to deal with it. It's cheaper that way.
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Well except for the swing axels vs IRS thing.
And the way cool rope driveshaft - wonder how that went over at the drags? At least when it broke maybe it wouldn't pole-vault the car.
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And wasn't this a Dorki track day repair?? Just can't tell if this is DR's or Talon's handiwork....
Yeah, that was at SP. Us Tech Inspectors had to do the best we could to get another fuchin' busted 944 back on the track...

The funny thing is that repair doubled the value of the car!
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LOL those wacky German truckers, you never know what they'll do next.

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