Itinerant Air Cooled Greetings From MCI Central

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Itinerant Air Cooled Greetings From MCI Central

Post by Amskeptic » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:14 pm

So I was blowing down I-5 glorying in the heat on my way to Covelo call, when suddenly!

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So I stopped and looked more closely:
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I could imagine why this tour company didn't quite take off for the guy:
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Then, emboldened, I snooped around a little:
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and spied this iconic beauty:
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The things we have learned since this:
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Even this one was once considered the latest and greatest technology. . . :
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. . . but those long and floppy belts always made me nervous. Here's a two-cycle diesel from the early 60's. It blew in the intake charge with a blower (supercharger) at the bottom of each and every downstroke of the piston:
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. . . and had to remove as much of the exhaust charge as it could on the beginning of the compression stroke:
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. . . using a four-valve cylinder head!
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These 2 cycle diesels had excellent torque with a power stroke on every single down movement of the piston, but it ran out of horsepower quickly at high rpms (high? try 1,500 rpm) and sounded a lot more frantic and busy than it actually was.
to be continued
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Post by Bookwus » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:55 pm

Hiya Colin,

Very interesting about the Busses.

But that is a 49-51 Ford squeezed in there among the heavy artillery. Flathead heaven.

So what and where is this particular place?
I have cancer.

It does not have me.

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Post by RZAR » Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:02 pm

All four of those valves in that head are exhaust valves in Detroits. No intake valves. The intake were slots in the piston liners. Awesome engines.
77 Bus. Stock 2.0 FI with Computronix ignitor and coil

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Post by airkooledchris » Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:52 pm

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Id still love to find an old international harvester school bus to customize like this.
awesome vehicles.
1979 California Transporter

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Post by Birdibus » Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:09 am

what is MCI? Mid central interior?
71 bus, 74 westy

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Post by dtrumbo » Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:53 am

Birdibus wrote:what is MCI? Mid central interior?
Motor Coach Industries. They make a lot of motor coaches like Greyhound uses although most of the pictures in Colin's post are of non-MCI buses. Flxibles, GMC's and the like. Yeah, I'm a bus geek, VW or otherwise! :geek:
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1970 Transporter. 2015cc, dual Weber IDF 40's
1978 Riviera Camper. Bone stock GE 2.0L F.I.
1979 Super Beetle convertible.

... as it turns out, it was the coil!

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Post by hambone » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:00 am

Great pics all along, you've been an artist this summer. Must be the shimmering heat inspiring you. And all those clakety miles, MAKE YOU STRONG LIKE BULL.
Urban/industrial decay is very interesting. Also interesting that, although we have learned a great deal technically, our estetic is slowly slipping to Eastern Bloc.
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