Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Insanity strikes again

[Rick Moseley (ramosel]

Doug,

Wasn't the Hydro-Stick a...  or THE 4 speed Automatic??

I made a few trips to Fresno (Bellmont St?) to have Bodie (I think he was Don's kid) work over the 727 I had in my Challenger.  Never looked at any reference material but he had my whole trans apart on the table in about 7 min.   Drilled this, plugged that, enlarged two of those holes, chamfered this ball seat but not that one....  I agreed when he said "Now you need about $200 worth of parts:.  2 hours later it was all back together.  I was a second and half quicker on my first run after that.   Fun Saturday mornings at B&M.

On Sunday, February 14, 2021, 10:05:30 PM PST, Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

With a little monkeying around the Gas Altered pretty much used the B&M Hydro’s up thru 1972.

10 second runs at about 135 mph.

                    

That was yesterday – today, drop by a Ferrari dealer for a test drive of LaFerrari and knock out a quarter mile in 9.8 and 140 mph.

Then take Betty Sue for a malted.

Doug

 

From: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2021 9:42 PM
To: Douglas Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Insanity strikes again

 

We had a neighbor in the 70s who had 3 old Olds, his 90 series had the Hydra-matic.  Even after a rebuild, you could not start on an uphill.   He had to take a running start to get it up his driveway.   It moved fairly well on flat roads.    If you lifted over 40 mph, you could hear the fluid chugging and backwashing.   If he lifted and got back on it at the right speed, it struggled to catch up.   When it did, it sounded like a toilet flushing.  For years I thought people were calling the Flushboxes.  Then I caught on to Slushbox.