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Re: Hot Cool.

To: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Hot Cool.
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 08:19:03 -0700
Mark,
I think you just issued me a challenge to get the S2000 engine into Tiny Tim 
"BEFORE" VTR!  :)

Joe (C)

Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> 
> What a week.  It has been hot, several days in a row where the thermometer
> has slithered up over 100.  And today the humidity rocketed up over 20 
>percent,
> I'm gonna die.
> 
> But all is not lost, there was some good news this evening.  Cool!  I finally
> got around to popping the head off the red racer.  I was expecting to see 
>holes
> the size of quarters in a piston or two, half inch deep gouges in the walls
> of the cylinders, or something like that.  Turns out that preliminary evidence
> shows that the excessive blowby, oil everywhare, overheating and such was due
> to head gasket failure.  The pistons and rings appear intact.  I was surprised
> to see that the pistons had "STD" stamped in them, while bore size measured
> 40 over.  Turns out the pistons are GT-6 units, based on the part number, so
> no need to panic.  Well, there is a bit of a ridge in the cylinders, next
> iteration of this 1296 Mark 3 motor could be fun.
> 
> So, what to do now.  I could round up a new head gasket, and get the little
> red Spit back together for the August IVR and VTR events.  Or I could do what
> I think should be done, and tear apart the rusty racer for a complete 
>makeover,
> estimated completion, uh, mumble mumble...
> 
> Or I could take this really nicely ported head now sitting on the bench and
> slap it on Killer, which would bump the compression ratio up many notches,
> maybe swap cams while I am at it.  I'd need a weekend or two to retune the
> Webers.  The GT6 gearbox now in Killer boots me out of Street Prepared, so
> why not just forget SCCA Solo classing, tweak the motor and go for maximum
> fun at VTR?  And a healthy dose of extra grunt to apply to the RX7s at the
> August IVR event could be waaay fun.
> 
> This could be interesting.
> 
> mjb.

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