Howdy Doc, Mike, and WeatherCat Automobile enthusiasts . . . .
The latest word is . . . . there has been a slip-up in the delivery scheme and the engine won't arrive until tomorrow afternoon. The trouble with that is that there is a party called "Dancing with the Cars" the night before the show and the engine would be now arriving in the middle of the frantic preparations for that. Last I heard, Orinda Motors didn't want the engine if it would arrive that late. However, they are already in panic mode and haven't called me back to tell me what they want to do.
Could somebody -
please - take Murphy off my back!!
OK, that's going to use more gas than my truck!
Well, only getting the engine in the car and actually driving it will tell. It is supposed to be very thrifty by design though.
Edouard the engine looks bigger than my car, its huge, but looking so great. Can't wait for the next installment, i.e. when its installed and working. Are you doing that bit yourself?
No, I'll have the fellows at Orinda Motors install the engine. I know "amateurs" do this sort of thing, but at 650 lbs. (295 Kg.) that's more weight than I want to deal with!!
I did hear that the last Space Shuttle will make its final journey today. Can I just confirm that there is no link between the two events and this is is reality a motor car engine?
Yup, looks like my engine will be sitting in a depot only a few miles from where it needs to be when the Space Shuttle flies by.
Actually, breaks my heart to see all the fuss they are making about these retired shuttles. If Americans cared enough about these machines, we would by flying the next-generation shuttle instead of sitting on our hands wondering why we lost our lead in space technology. All of sudden the U.S. Air Force and a few private ventures have started to look at the supersonic jet-engine technology needed to really make a shuttle cost-effective. When I was a kid, it was expected that hybrid aircraft-rocket launch vehicles would be commonplace by 1980. 30 years later, . . . . all of a sudden people are interested in the idea again.
Too little, too late . . . . Oh well,
Cheers, Edouard