Engine ID

[sixtyfathomstudebaker]

I have acquired this engine, PK 307. I believe it to be the engine used to set the Avanti speed record in 1993, by Ron Hall. Who can help me out with more information?

Don

[Gunslinger]

Check with the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association <http://www.saltflats.com/>. They're the sanctioning body for land speed records at Bonneville. I would hope they keep such records. The US Auto Club (USAC) may be able to help as well.

[attrite1]

Those numbers don't make a lot of sense to me as most R3 engines had a BXXX or Ax designation. There were 4 EXxxxx numbers too! I would urge you to go to the Racing Studebakers website with this post and Alan or Dave Bloomberg might be able to help. There's a discussion there right now about Jet City Studebaker and Corbin Walters/Jim Pepper who designed and built that engine. The PK number was probably a number stamped by Jet City as it does not show on the R3/R4 registry, but interestingly there was a P83516 Block which must have been an early block as it was a 299ci motor.

http://racingstudebakers.com/stl-web/bulle...opic.php?t=1382

Edited July 25, 2008 by attrite1