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Re: fergussen history (no audi content)
>> Rob Walker had entered the car for Moss at Oulton Park and he entered it
>> again in the 1963 New Zealand series, fitted with a 2.5-litre four-cylinder
>> Coventry-Climax engine.
>
>This engine has a history as long and proud as the I5. I think it was
>originally developed for fork-lift trucks. I used to work on the
>performance versions quite a lot in my 'first' mechanical career - the
>'second' being entirely devoted to I5s.
Wrong answer there Phil the Coventry-Climax engine was designed as a Water
pump engine for fighting fires during WWII.