by Ferrous_Head » Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:51 am
This is possibly a coincidence. One year on the way to Phillip Island my brother and I ran into some guys coming over from Adelaide. Can't remember the year, maybe 2009 -2010. But 4 guys I think nearly dead from heat exhaustion. Told us they gad ridden over from Adelaide and could go no farther so stopped at the same morel as us.
One of them was a pattern maker. I talked to him about making some Ducati single heads. Thinking I could do 4 valve heads with much better combustion chamber shapes and shock the world. Shatter speed records. I'm pretty sure he talked about the Castlemain foundry as they were one of the few who would do magnesium castings.
But life,, kids, work, the minister for war and the minister for finances intervened and it never got done.
Were you by chance part of that group ?
"I know only too well the evil that I propose, but my inclinations get the better of me."