[tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?

  • From: "Denis" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:32:42 -0500

I am not smart about this stuff and the experts will correct me, but what, I 
think, you should be looking at is RPM.You can go really fast but you'll be 
turning 4K plus and your engine will fly to pieces. So, and I have asked this 
before, I think the key is a tranny with a gear ratio that will let you go 
faster with lower RPM. That way you could keep the engine stock, which is what 
you want, right?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James Dwan 
  To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:59 AM
  Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?


        Okay, showing my Bay Windowness here, all I know is 3 & 6 rib tranny 
and now split.
        Is a big nut tranny different than split? why is it called big nut? 
Franklly Big Nut Tranny sounds obcene to my Bay Window ears : P

        --- On Wed, 9/9/09, wuzmop@xxxxxxx <wuzmop@xxxxxxx> wrote:


          From: wuzmop@xxxxxxx <wuzmop@xxxxxxx>
          Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?
          To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
          Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 6:29 AM


          My 1600 dp with big nut tranny can cruise 65 pretty easily. I can do 
70 if I have to, but it wouldn't look anywhere near stock in the 59.


          -----Original Message-----
          From: atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx>
          To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Sent: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 10:15 pm
          Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?


          A single port can easily do more than 50 in a splittie.  Sounds like 
a tranny swap might be likely, from the experts.  I can cruise at 65, if 
needed.  I choose to go a little slower, stopping is my biggest concern.  


          I'm running a 1600 single port.  So it wouldn't look totally OG, but 
it could give you some acceleration. 

          Jeff 


          sent via iPhone



          On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:51 PM, "Denis" <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:


            The Zone is no normal animal, with all his tricked out suspension, 
brakes and steering, but I can do 70 easy, but as my Dad once said, if you come 
up against a watermelon at that speed, you're gonna lose.
              ----- Original Message ----- 
              From: sammie smith 
              To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
              Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 9:46 PM
              Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?


                    Well, it depends on what you want to do Paul.  The Baja is 
about as non-stock as you can get a VW and will cruise all day long at 
3,700-3,800 rpm effortlesly with its 2000cc engine which is about 80mph with 
its tires and gearing.  And in response to Denis; your e-mail got me curious so 
I counted the states that the Baja has been in; 16; and driven to, in, and from 
all of them.

                    But; in a stock suspension split window bus, regardless of 
engine and tranny, about 65 is a max top speed to be safe.  Those things get 
awfully squirlly at much faster than that.

                    --- On Tue, 9/8/09, singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:


                      From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
                      Subject: [tcb] Re: What size engine for the '59?
                      To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                      Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 9:24 PM


                      James ,I run a 1641 in my single cab,dual kadrons,110 
engle cam .I don't believe in high compression street engines , and no 
reduction gears , 3600 is about what I run all day long.70,75,even 80mph is not 
a problem,but not recommended.It,s duel port. Sammie says stock lol, Sammie I 
had to ans were for you.
                      Paul Smith 

                        2009 Zone Tour 1999-2009 ,10 years of Trucking
                        
                      H.B.B 
                      T.C.B 
                      Transporters at the Point 6  October 9,10,and 11, 
2009"Love all,trust a few,Do wrong to none"


                      --- On Tue, 9/8/09, James Dwan 
<james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

                      > From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
                      > Subject: [tcb] What size engine for the '59?
                      > To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                      > Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7:46 PM
                      > I just
                      > got off the phone with Ronnie in AZ. I ordered my belly 
pans
                      > and bumpers and we discussed the kind of engine I'd be
                      > putting in the Bus. I told him I'd like to stay as close
                      > to stock as possible. I plan on using the split case 
tranny
                      > and was thinking of rebuilding the engine that came 
with it
                      > (not original).
                      > He said that a 36 horse with counter weighted crank and
                      > increased compression ratio could be a nice runner. 
3600 RPM
                      > all day long.
                      > The one in there now is a single port but that's all I
                      > know about it. Even though I have a "Slow Moving
                      > Vehicle" magnetic sticker for the back, the thought of
                      > only going 50mph scares me.
                      > Thoughts?
                      > Thanks!
                      > 
                      > 
                      > 
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