1600cc engine HP

It already has dual carbs, not sure who's, my car os 1000 miles away right now.

High lift rockers and a good header/exhaust system.

Stock is around 60 hp (I think).  Duals, rockers and header should put you in the 75 hp range.

I believe the standard 1600cc dual port engine has 50hp.

Sounds like you a car similar to mine. I have a wide body also, it's on a 72 chassis with a 1776 cc engine with dual carbs. I don't know the hp as I just bought it last year from the original owner/builders widow.

http://kaddieshack.com/1600dynoresults.html

50 (plus or minus 5) stock and 65 (plus or minus 5) with rockers and dual carbs and a decent exhaust. Peak torque will go up about 10 ft-lbs. Top usable RPM will increase from 4500 to 5000 or so. 

 

Assuming you're not hauling around a load of sash weights, 50-60 horse is enough to get around and have fun.

"Assuming you're not hauling around a load of sash weights, 50-60 horse is enough to get around and have fun."

 

...in a senior citizens' developement maybe.

 

 

"Sash Weight", there's a trivia question for you.

I happen to have 6 old sash weights in my garage.  I use them to hold down the corners of tarps when I use them. Never thought of taking them for a ride 'round the senior center parking lot. 

 

craig

I'll bet more than 50% here have no idea what sash weights are. ( No, they don't keep your Cumber Bun from riding up :~)

I know sash weights as they relate to lead window weights in old double-hung house windows.

Bet they'd make great ballast for the front end of a Speedster to balance it out a bit.

DING DING DING!  Give Tom a prize from row 1.

 

Many were just plain steel.  I've never seen a lead set, I'm not that old.

 

I enjoyed playing along, thanks

I suppose if we wait a bit, Vince will surely chime in on the double hung reference ...

I worked for an old lumber yard back in the early 70's , they had a box of used lead shash weights and recall a guy buying them to melt down for fishing weights.

When I was 13 my parents bought a home in a new sub-division in Maryland just outside DC. Soon after we moved in, builders started another sub-division not far from ours. The land was a big old farm with a huge old farm house about a mile from my house. The big old double-hung windows had a sash weight on each side frame that was made of a rough cast pot metal with the weight number cast in the top of each torpedo shaped weight. The weights ranged from five pounds to six and a half pounds in half pound increments. I decided it would be cool to make an exercise machine that used the sash weights for resistance. It took me a week to "acquire" enough wood to build a bench press/leg press in my parents basement and another week to pull out the sash weights and carry all 315 lbs. to the machine of pain. I used that thing for about five years to help make me the muscle bound monster I am today. -- 

"Lead"?  Maybe, but all of the sash weights I've ever seen were "torpedo" shaped and made of cast iron (which was cheaper than lead back then) with an eyelet cast into them to run the window rope through.  

 

When I cleaned out my Dad's shop I must have thrown out a couple dozen of them.

Syl...those weights. You heisted them from the construction site? Or took them out of all the windows in your house?

 

Either way, hilarious!

 

The house I grew up in had old style windows with weights in the original part and new fangled aluminum track windows in the "new" part, which was added when I was three years old. The ropes inside the old window frames had long ago rotted so there was like one or two weights left actually attached in the dozen or so windows in the old part of the house. In the summer they were all propped open. We had special sticks dedicated to the job.

 

Flash forward 35 years. My first house is a 1926 vintage, and basically unmolested (real wood doors, crystal door knobs, hardwood trim, etc.). I set it as right as I could in four year's occupancy, and when I go to sell it's an FHA deal. Word comes back (among several other minor things, such as "replace the electrical junction box"): the sash weights need to be reattached.

 

The sticks I had were not good enough for government work! (Or, at least, a govt. loan).

 

Went back up there--the house was in Connecticut; I was in Baltimore by then-- spent the day taking window frames apart, replacing disintegrated rope, tying on the sash weights, shimming the tracks back nice and snug.

 

Brought my mom along cause she told me she'd done it as a kid too.

 

"Never in our house, though?"

 

Nah, she said. I was waiting for your father to get to it.

 

 

Thread drift ....................................

Well. "50 horse" was asked and answered a while back.

We need an image of a spool of thread 'drifting' so we can just post it when a thread ... drifts.