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echo: oldcars
to: JOHN DEMOTT
from: ELVIS HARGROVE
date: 1996-07-02 17:22:00
subject: Avanti

-> I think they came up with two new versions of the 289. The one
-> without the supercharger had 10.25:1 pistons and a new cam that gave
-> it 240 HP.
I remember that.  I built up one similar on a bored and DE-stroked 259
block.  The studbuster cam that replaced their 'stock' and all the
'soft' camshafts had almost identical timing and duration as the Chev.
"Duntov" cam.  I had monster intake valves and the exhausts almost
touched the intake cavity.  Screamingest Stude engine I ever built.
Vandals stole the carb (WCFB Carter) off it and left the hood up.  When
I found it the engine was locked solid.  I beat the crap out of the ones
I thought might have done it, but never had the satisfaction of sending
them up the river.....  It was in a '56 Power Hawk when it was
destroyed.....
 ^..^
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