<VV> crate'able 140?

[Tony Underwood]

At 01:53 hours 06/05/2006, Brandes, Guy wrote:
>Heck, I'm still upset about no crate motors.
>
>Guy Brandes
>
>65 VAIR 140



I have a '66 140 engine on a crate.   Does that count?

I took it apart to find out why it had been practically discarded... 
left sitting in the weather for a while after the car it was in got 
parted out, found one smog piston in it.    Stock 140 
heads.   Consider that.    The sucker must have hammered like an old 
bulldozer on a cobblestone pike, judging from the peened and 
burnished section of the dome that matched a polished surface of the 
squish area in the head.    It's pretty much likely the reason the 
engine was discarded along with the car, following a "repair" of some 
sorts to the engine.   Whoever dumped it must have thought the engine 
had tanked a rod.    The questions is what sort of 
one-eye-among-the-blind King would put a smog piston into a 140...?

It's one of the stranger things I've found in a'Vair engine that 
didn't belong in it.

I also found a smallblock Ford rocker arm in a '63 Spyder head 
once.   At least that engine was running albeit clicking.   This 140 
must have sounded like a jackhammer the moment it first started up.

Now I need to find three good jugs to fix it, seeing as how there was 
water standing in three cylinders, resulted in the typical pitting 
etc.    Oh... and a piston too... or maybe 6 pistons since the ones 
in it (the remaining 5) show some wear on the skirts...  and I'm 
fresh out of pistons (good ones anyway).


Dang, it's Hell to be pour.


tony..