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Back in his sand-running days, Ray Lueuschner ran paddle tires on his 1970 CJ-5, and the 225 Buick V-6 was built to handle it. The little V-6 sports a mild Isky cam and an Offenhauser intake topped by a Holley 465 with vacuum secondaries. Ray says he does more rockcrawling these days, and the same setup works great, just at a lower rpm. The Mallory dual-point distributor is a holdover from the high rpm sand-dune days, when point float could be a problem.
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 Back in his sand-running days, Ray Lueuschner ran paddle tires on his 1970 CJ-5, and the 225 Buick V-6 was built to handle it. The little V-6 sports a mild Isky cam and an Offenhauser intake topped by a Holley 465 with vacuum secondaries. Ray says he does more rockcrawling these days, and the same setup works great, just at a lower rpm. The Mallory dual-point distributor is a holdover from the high rpm sand-dune days, when point float could be a problem.  View Related Article

 

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