so yea. 1972 International Travelette, the 4-door brother of my truck Tank.
whats so special? it's got a 392 sitting under the hood, and NO it's not that thing called a 'Hemi' that Chrysler made in the late 50's/early 60's, it's made exclusively by IH. sure it's not a hot rod or a 4-wheeler (its only 2wd but it's posi) but it'll tow anything you want, given you don't care about gas mileage.
Has over $1200 invested in ignition, mainly distrib/coil/MSD, spent $300 on a new carb, rebuilt the old carb, blah blah... and forgot all about the cap/rotor. Replaced them today with new units (for roughly $35), threw the 300amp starter on it because the battery blows, and viola, she starts up faster than a lightbulb! of course i forgot i had the fuel line disconnected from the carb, blah blah, got it all ready to go, and i think i spent more time listening to the sweet sound of it than i did letting it warm up. I just can't get enough of those internationals, flat torque curve out to 3200rpm or so, never goes below 80% max torque until after that. Power is more on a 1:1 slope
^^^engine shot (check out the exhaust port/bolt pattern... how odd)
^^^^^ numbers are off for that graph, but the curve is almost spot on. hope you have a good clutch...
anyone wanna make something out of this motor?
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