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| Author: | hyper_pak [ Wed May 15, 2024 7:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Trenton Engine Plant, Slant Six On Line Artical |
Found this today, I thought it was interesting. https://www.motales.com/chrysler-corp/p ... nton-2.php One of the pictures shows what looks like a slant with a chrome valve cover. That was cool. |
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Wed May 15, 2024 7:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trenton Engine Plant, Slant Six On Line Artical |
Super cool. Thanks, Stan. Lou |
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| Author: | Greg Ondayko [ Wed May 15, 2024 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trenton Engine Plant, Slant Six On Line Artical |
Cool Stuff. I like the (propane / CNG?) Carbs and oiling setup used for the run-in testing as well as the Giganto Fan and ~100 Ampere alternator shown in the lead-off 1977 Photo. Maybe that one is an industrial engine? |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Wed May 15, 2024 11:04 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trenton Engine Plant, Slant Six On Line Artical |
Quote: Cool Stuff Yup! Motales is David Zatz' second go at a site like this, after he came to sorely regret selling his first one—Allpar—to the serially scummy VerticalScope, who promptly destroyed it. That's why this linked article looks so much like a pre-VS Allpar piece (including oopses like "Trenton also made huge numbers of another six-cylinder, where every cylinder sat in a straight line, and all were tilted by 30%". No, thirty degrees. That's not the same as thirty per cent. (if for some strange reason we want to talk in percentages, then 30° ÷ 360° = 8.33%) Quote: I like the (propane / CNG?) Carbs and oiling setup used for the run-in testing Probably LP (propane); CNG is much less readily adaptable to a gasoline engine, and much harder to handle—higher pressure, etc. Quote: as well as the Giganto Fan and ~100 Ampere alternator shown in the lead-off 1977 Photo Giganto fan…? Looks like an ordinary production piece, a 6-blade flex fan installed on FMJR-body Slant-6 cars; trucks and vans, too. The 100A alternator shown in the pic was optional in all those applications. Quote: Maybe that one is an industrial engine? It's a passcar/truck/van unit. Industrial applications typically require a whole lot less electricity; just enough to run the ignition system and recharge the battery after startup, plus maybe a couple of small lights—no headlamps, brake lights, turn signals, stereo, A/C, defogger, wipers, etc. Also, industrial applications don't usually have ducted air cleaners or power steering (pump shown in pic), and they do usually have speed governor setups on their 1bbl carburetors; this one has a 2bbl carburetor and an automatic transmission also not usually found in industrial applications. That's a factory promo pic also used in this October '76 Chrysler publication, "Chrysler Corporation's Six-Cylinder Engines", which is roadgoing-vehicle orientated (I used to have it with much better pic quality; sorry).
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| Author: | Greg Ondayko [ Wed May 15, 2024 3:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trenton Engine Plant, Slant Six On Line Artical |
Thanks for the insights Dan. |
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| Author: | Greg Ondayko [ Thu May 23, 2024 2:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Trenton Engine Plant, Slant Six On Line Artical |
I will be driving near the Trenton area in a week or so, maybe I will stop and have a look-see! |
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