So, working my way chronologically thru my stash, some will be a good read, some a maybe not so much. I am just picking and choosing as we go.
Here is one of a number of articles on the
"Ram Air V".
I probably posted a different article (a HO Publication Article) on this Engine in the
Other Post, but it is buried deeper than a Alabama Tick
.
So there is some interesting commentary in this, and maybe somewhat subjective.
Like the comment -
"To put it bluntly, the Ram Air V was a poor performing engine". No flow bench's back then? Caught up in the whole Tunnel Port thing.
And the Con Rod Vendor going bankrupt, - like was GM Purchasing asleep at the wheel? I read elsewhere that the RA V Rods would go out of round at Revs, maybe a little too beefy, or Rod Bolts not up to the task. Maybe the SD455 Rods were in fact the best Pontiac Rod ever...