Just poking back myself Bob, no harm, no foul; hey, are you the guy with the midget and gas pump in his yard? We may be almost neighbors...

But since anything worth doing is worth doing in excess, from Dictionary.com:
Motor

1. a comparatively small and powerful engine, especially an internal-combustion engine in an automobile, motorboat, or the like.

2. any self-powered vehicle.

3. a person or thing that imparts motion, especially a contrivance, as a steam engine, that receives and modifies energy from some natural source in order to utilize it in driving machinery.

4. Also called electric motor. Electricity. a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy, as an induction motor.


Engine
noun
1. a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion.

2. a railroad locomotive.

3. a fire engine.

4. any mechanical contrivance.

5. a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery.

6. Obsolete. an instrument of torture, especially the rack.

Come to think of it, for most of us definition 6 of "engine" comes the closest...

Racer

You are wrong on that. I am making a small fortune racing. I do kinda of miss that large fortune that I started with though.

Snoopy

I to was an educator but the educated morons in Indianapolis decided that kids didn't need Industrial Education Classes anymore since the majority of their students were bound to be college bound. The kids I use to keep in school just went on and dropped out>>> and were much less bothersome to administrators that way.

The blessing in disguise was I sure made a whole lot more money by teaching those same drop outs how to weld on Exhaust systems than I would have made had I remained a teacher.

Back to the topic:

Those engine rules for midgets were probably composed by both branches of the Federal Legislature and signed into law by the President of the United states and refined by both OSHA and the EPA. How do I know you ask??

BECAUSE THEY ARE STUPID BURDENSOME AND OVERLY RESTRICTIVE. and they also favor the wealthy.


Honest Dad himself

Do you buy engine oil or motor oil?

I wish I still lived on 28th street! That is Kirby with the midget, nice guy! I buy motor oil for my slot cars and engine oil for my truck! ;]

Bob

I remember I had a Mercury Capri as my second car. Not the ones that became Mustang Bodies in 79 but before that. It had a small V6 and as light as the car was, I smoked most small blocks 305s-350s It was a part German Car not sure if the engine was German, But I always thought that engine would have been perfect for Midget racing. Even in that small Capri, It looked small but it had all kinds of torque and would just scream, it wasn't till about 80 where the V8s started pulling me..

Charles

Those motors are out there wanting to be raced.

The problem is everybody is in bed with everybody else and they just don't want to make room for anybody else. They are happy as they can be with their rules as they are. After all these rules do keeps out the rift raft.

Now if Harold up in Montpelier would relax his engine rule just a little bit more Old Dad might get the bug and build a midget engine to go racing. I got dibs on one of the better midget motor builders in Indiana. I take that back make that the USA because he sure gets the most out of a motor with the least amount of investment.

Honest Dad himself

Chuck, they used that engine in the Sunbeam Alpine, the V was so narrow at the top, they had to put the carb on sideways, I was in DC in the service from 1961 to 1963, and there was a gal that lived in our apartment building that had a Sunbeam, talk about a honker, both of them, but it was no match for my Chevy powered Austin Healy, which I did the swap in the parking lot, there weren't many Corvette's around that wanted to mess with me either! I'm not sure who actually supplied the engine, but a little known fact, as late as the early 70's, you could still buy a Ford V860, in an import, it had evolved to a 100 by then, by stroking it a quarter. Bob

Bob

That old Smart secret agent guy drove a Sunbeam Tiger aka Cobra wanabe powered by the little 260 ci Ford vest pocket V8 as they called it. My sister had an Alpine 4 cylinder talk about slow, fit her perfect. I bough a 1959 Austin Healey 100-6 to put one of them Jamaican Fiberglass bodies on it back when i just got out of college. The more I looked at that thing though the more I fell in love with it just the way it was. This was when I was teaching up in Indy in the early 70's and I wanted to do something in my spare time. Well I ditched the fiberglass body idea and rebuilt the Big Healey. That was the one with the 3 SU carbs, it stayed out of sync all the time but that was the joy of owning those things back then. With the big 6 (not really 3000cc's) and overdrive transmission them Corvettes could hang with me up to about 125 or so that was when you kicked the Healey in to overdrive and them vetts just kinda of faded in the rear view mirror. The biggest problem with the Healey was it tended to suck the side curtains out at speeds over 100 mph, and then you had to stop and go back to look for them.

I still got the Healey, we have about 10 more years together than me and the wife. I told her I thought it would make a nice coffin for me.

Honest Dad himself

I think mine was a BN2, originally a 4 cyl, it was the LeMans model, steel fenders and aluminium trunk, hood with louvers, it had tendency to lose the hood above a hundred. Looks like I'll be in the pits tomorrow night, with truck, trailer, and car, driver unknown at this time, but I will have wheels. Bob that probably was a Tiger.