[lbo-talk] Hijacking carbon footprints of old LA

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Fri Apr 27 15:35:19 PDT 2007



>
> ``Two stroke engines are really dirty beasts...'' tfast
>
> ------
>
> That's the joke. The Goliath mixed the oil and gas together, because
> there was no oil pan (back pressure case), hence the only way to
> cheaply oil the engine was mixing gas and oil together. This puppy
> smoked like MacIntyre.

I am confused. All two strokes premix no?


>
> Anyway it was hell of a fun car. I rolled my station wagon, so I had
> to dig the coupe (burned up engine) out from the backyard and put the
> station wagon engine in the coupe. Later I got a used Triumph station
> wagon that was like living in luxury compared to the little black East
> German beastie. I felt positively bourgeois and tweady.
>
Again confused. How the hell did you cram a station engine in where the two strike engine was housed? And second did you need a new transmission to boot?



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