Re: Insert bearings

Posted by Mike Flanagan on November 07, 1997 at 18:17:09

In Reply to: Insert bearings
posted by Bill Pursel on November 07, 1997 at 17:19:11

One man's opinion. The manner in which you use your car should dictate how you build the engine. The Model A was built in a time when the roads would support speeds of 35 to 55 with emphasis added to the former. The technology fit the times. If you drive your Model A as it was designed, ie; under 50, and build with the babbit of today chances are the average Model A owner will not live long enough to wear out a rebuilt engine. If you take care and pay attention to maintenance schedules.
I drive a Model A by choice, I like to poot around at 45 and enjoy the liesurely pace that it provides. I have a car that will go like sixty but prefer the Model A. If I want to go faster I'll buy a Pinto. Another consideration is Dinero! why spend 5k on an engine whose performance and longevity is definately not worth the $3500 extra (my opinion). Witness the fact that my $1200 Holman engine in a 31 Town Sedan passes a friends '31 Roadster with a 5K special while climbing Yarnell Hill (read steep). He don't like that no he don't. He wishes he had the money back.
But then I'm an old fogey or so I'm told. Maybe that's because I intend it to be so.
My two cents worth.
The Model A Fool.
: I would like to hear the good and the bad on converting the A motor to insert bearings.

Follow Ups:
Re: Insert bearings Hayes Lowe November 19, 1997 at 16:04:45(0)
Why not Babbit? MRR November 11, 1997 at 08:39:01(0)

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