True that, Jon, and thanks again for keeping this site going.
After the Speedweek washout, I was considering on giving up on the Grenade and simply moving on the new K-series engine - but I'm glad I didn't.
Actually, I got that nomenclature from one of Peter Egan's articles. He was writing about - I think - his Sprite engine.
He referred to it as a grenade, or perhaps a hand grenade, but I always thought it was funny, so in honor of Wisconsin's most famous Automotive and Motorcycle writer and columnist, I christened the engine thusly.
That said, the new engine - the K-series - will need a new name.
With 5 main bearings, any derivative of "Grenade" just doesn't seem to address the potential pitfalls that await us as well as it did the 3-main A-series.
It's an MG/Rover engine from Great Britain, and there are plenty of dubious yet apropos titles it could receive.
The "1k-k" springs to mind - 1 liter K series - but that's one k short of being racist, and I don't want to go there.
A cereal cognomen springs to the fore, but the only grains I'm really concerned with are rye and barley.
Of course, being a "Rover", the canine selections are easy, but the one I think best describes it is in reference to the K-series' propensity to overheat at the worst possible time.
So I think I'll settle on "Kettle".
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