Originally Posted by DAD:
Earl Balmer ran a ranger back in the 50's seems to me they came out of the airplane upside down to start with and the car guys had to stand them up the right way I think they also had a hard time keeping rear axils under them. I'm too young to remember them up close this is just the old bull I heard as a kid sitting around the garage. Is any of that true?
It ain't bull, DAD, I had 2 of them myself, never ran them in a race car tho, didn't have one then, but the engines were cheap, a C note would put a new one in it's original crate, on your doorstep, and for another C note, you could have a V12 Allison 1710, originally built for a P51 Mustang. Some did mount them "upside down", as they had a dry sump oil system in the airplane, but some did fab oil pans for them, and run them with the crankshaft lower in the chassis. When they were "right", they rattled like hell, and if they started to get quiet, they were about to holler "NEXT". Bob!
