That was me and a colleague of mine, standing in front of an open and up-ended Danfoss OMR orbital motor and arguing how you can time it right, solely one in all us was referring to the tooth on the gear wheel and the other to the tooth on the connecting shaft, which meant that both of us were proper.

The Jeep CJ’s most important mechanical change in these years was the 1965 introduction of a 160-horsepower V-6 as an optionally available different to the Hurricane four. Referred to as «Dauntless,» it was mainly the 225-cid Buick unit first seen within the mid-size Special of 1964 and derived from the GM division’s 198-cid powerplant of two years earlier. Jeep had purchased the tooling from GM and, in a uncommon twist for the U.S. motor business, would later promote it again.

The latter made a Chevelle one of many quickest muscle cars ever constructed. «You can also make our tough one even more durable,» the brochure explained, by adding Cowl Induction to either SS model. Step on the fuel, and a scoop opened «to shoot an additional breath of cool air into the engine air intake….like second wind to a distance runner.» Practical hood lock pins completed the SS bundle.