Long awaited time has come, and by the smiles on these guys you just know they are proud of their creation. They should be! it has taken hundreds of overtime hours to build the Goldenhawk Special overdrive/speed doubler. It is the brain child of the "Olson twins", Chris and Ben of
OTT Industries. A little history is appropriate at this time, for it was at our first meeting to discuss the project and sponsorship possibility in December of 2004. At that meeting we discussed the problem of the diesel being strong and heavy internally and that it would not want to spin the rpms required to go real fast given the gear ratios available. The Olsons came up with a suggested solution. They would take a rare part from a 1973 vintage ambulance conversion, a cross between Chevy and Ford parts, remake it to run backwards and re machine all the insides to produce a speed doubler that would bolt to the rear of the transmission overdrive unit and then double the output shaft speed. Sounds good to me! However it was not obvious to the unsophisticated person just how much is involved.
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