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Gents,
Here is a Spark Plug conversion table.
Peter
Gents,
I Love this Message Board!
Peter
Jim,
What are your calculations for Torque?
All of the HP / RPM to Torque websites that I visit give me the same numbers as above and those are higher than your numbers.
Peter
Hello Don,
Below is a Torque calculator.
The number that I came up with for 160 hp & 175 hp at 2,300 RPM are, 365.36 & 399.61 foot pounds of torque
Have fun with it.
Peter
Kerry,
If you choose to sell your Pierce-Arrow, it would be great if you were to first post its availability on the PAS Emporium so that other PAS members would have first shot at purchasing your lovely, rare and historical motorcar.
Peter
PS: Thanks to Tony for providing eloquence to knock-off.
Bill,
You are just getting up to speed with the Message Board.
In a few months you will be a Pierce-Arrow Message Board Professional!
However, please note that even the Pros make OOPS, Errors!
BTW, have you contacted any of the other PAS 48B owners via email?
You can look them up in the roster and send them email with the questions (Teebay).
We Gents who own only “newer”” P-A cars (20s & 30s) likely no nothing about Magneto functioning.
Peter”
Alan,
But of course!
Peter
Bill,
How you edit your post is to COPY YOUR TEXT, DELETE THE POSTING and then RE-POST it!
I have done that many times and just did it again with this reply.
HA!
Peter
Gents,
Please excuse me for the lack of information.
They are 6-volt bulbs.
I will post a review once they arrive and are installed.
I took a flyer on them and it is only a $30.00 experiment, so nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Peter
Bob,
I just purchased a set of 21-watt, positive-ground LED bulbs from the UK that should fit the P-A headlamps.
I’ll post a review after they arrive and I give them a trial run.
They also sell 5-watt LED bulbs that should fit P-A taillights.
Peter
How about sheet or strip oil resistant rubber from McMaster-Carr, and then fashion your own?
Greg,
I have a modern 6V coil and condenser mounted and hidden on the passenger compartment side of the firewall and wired through the loom sho that it LOOKs original, but neither the original coil nor the original condenser are connected.
And yes, I do remember, which is why I did the Mike Bortoli wiring job.
Peter
Bob,
You are a veritable fount of interesting technical information.
BRAVO!
Peter
Ed & Gents,
GEEZE, you should have read what I wrote above.
My Optima Guy works for Optima and speaks Ex Cathedra Optima.
Cheers,
Peter
David,
When you mention a Freeze Plug, do you mean something like a 1.75″ to 2″” Stainless Steel Fender Washer (the OD being the ID of the hose) with a decent sized hole (easily made larger) inserted at the end of the top radiator hose next to the radiator inlet?
I believe that is what I have (or had) in my Series 80 to reduce water flow / water puking.
Peter”
Gents,
I just got off the phone with my Optima Guy and he said that he “Loves Rumors.”
He told me that they have to fill OE orders first, like with VW and the Military, then they produce for the general retail market.
He agreed that there is currently a 6v drought, but he told me NOT TO WORRY and that come Spring there will likely be a SMOKING OPTIMA DEAL available for the PAS.
Peter
Scott,
Superb commentary!
Peter
Gents,
The problem with the word “Classic” is that everyone uses it and there is a continual (continuous?) discussion in the AACA publications and elsewhere about the USE of the term.
Lots of folks apply classic to anything that is more than 25-years old.
I have a 1987 BMW, 325i, Cabriolet (47K-miles) and have had people tell me it is “Classic.”
It is not, but it is fun to own and to drive and it does qualify for showing at any AACA Meet.
I don’t think that my 1925, Pierce-Arrow, Series 80, 7-Passenger DeLuxe Sedan is “Classic.”
I just think that it is a Pierce-Arrow, and that is more than good enough for me.
I’ll believe that the “Classics” are actually the study of Greco-Roman culture, philosophy and languages.
Ave atque vale, 
Peter
Gents,
Repetitiously Redundant!
CCCA has the Chrysler Town & Country, a continuation of the Chrysler Windsor (a low cost introductory level auto), as a Full Classic.
That had to do with a number of the CCCA National Board Members owning these wood-bodied cars.
It is NOT a FINE automobile.
After the the CCCA passed the rule, and the prices of the T&C skyrocketed, most of the voting Board Members owning the Town & Country cars resigned from the Board.
The CCCA is populated with snobs, and I know because I was on the Board of Directors of the New England Region.
During my tenure, they would not tolerate Pierce-Arrow cars and when I asked one Super Snoot; “George, don’t you own a Pierce-Arrow,” he replied; “I would NEVER own a Pierce-Arrow.”
Shortly thereafter, I resigned from the Board.
Some nice Buick people, but mostly Packard Snobs.
ACCA is a better, more inviting and inclusive Car Club.
Of course, the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Club is a SOCIETY and what more can you say?
Are we snobs? That is an open question, but I don’t look down on other vintage marques.
It is only the bastards (hot rodded vintage cars) that I disdain.
Peter
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