I was on a plane with Hoover coming back from a Drag Seminar and we were chatting about him leaving. He then pulled out his brief case he had under his seat.
Opened it up and showed me model trains he had been messing with.
Said he was going to work for GE or Westington or ?? on train engines which was his first passion as a kid.
His dad was sort of a master technician back in the day.
I heard later that Tom had sent a diesel head to SVI for some head development. I can imagine what that looked like.
Tom had a dry humor.
I remember during the seminar that he had mentioned they were developing ways to get the engine closer to real world operating conditions when honing the block.
The head plate was being used back then. He said they tried running hot water through the block while honing to simulate a running engine.
He said it didn’t help at all. He said - “all we got for our effort was wet shoes”.
Lou,
Here’s Tom Hoover’s -matter of fact- leaving the company announcement ....and then he goes right onto the next topic
** I think they are talking about the 340 X-block. Later in memo mentions issue with getting block casted in Indianapolis. ... The 318 turbo seems related to a “Little Red Van” concept vehicle.
