That was me and a colleague of mine, standing in entrance of an open and up-ended Danfoss OMR orbital motor and arguing find out how to time it proper, solely one in every of 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 right.

The Jeep CJ’s predominant mechanical change in these years was the 1965 introduction of a 160-horsepower V-6 as an optionally available various to the Hurricane 4. Referred to as «Dauntless,» it was principally the 225-cid Buick unit first seen within the mid-size Particular of 1964 and derived from the GM division’s 198-cid powerplant of two years earlier. Jeep had bought the tooling from GM and, in a uncommon twist for the U.S. motor trade, would later sell it back.

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