Cosidering Mr. Kastner's racing record...His name should be K.A.K....Kick
Ass Kas
Racer Bud
>From: BillDentin@aol.com
>Reply-To: BillDentin@aol.com
>To: fot@autox.team.net ('fot@autox.team.net')
>CC: rdwismer@mchsi.com
>Subject: [FOT] Father William
>Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:24:08 EST
>
>Amici:
>
>Bob Wismer and I have three Tornado cars (a Typhoon, a Thunder Bolt, and a
>Talisman). Over in England there is a club called the Fairthorpe Sports
>Car
>Club that serves the vintage and historic English specials like Ashley, EB,
>Fairthorpe, Falcon, Turner, Rochdale, and Tornado. Bill Woodhouse, the
>surviving
>founder of Tornado Cars, serves as a Vice President, and like our own Kas
>Kastner, is always near by with wise counsel. There are other names on the
>board
>that ring a bell, like Bennett, Cooper and Turner. The club members
>respectfully refer to Bill Woodhouse as 'Father William'. Makes me wonder
>if we
>should be calling Kas, "Father Kas'.
>
>Bill Dentinger
>
>PS...Below is a copy of an email sent yesterday by Bill Woodhouse to
>Richard
>Disbrow, the Falcon Registrar.
>
><<< Dear Richard,
>
>Reading your always interesting pieces in the "Newsletter" I will add
>my pennyworth to your current "Discourse" in the hope of adding
>something of value.
>
>Crankcase pressure builds up as a result of combustion gases escaping
>passed the piston rings. These gases don't improve the quality of the
>oil so, if they can be quickly vented away, so much the better. As
>some of the crankcase gases will be forced up the pushrod tubes, some
>pressure will build up in the rocker cover, which is why this also
>should to be vented.
>
>In the past these gases were ducted away, inevitably carrying some oil
>vapour with them. That you now have a catcher tank presumably is a
>current regulation to try and eliminate any oil film forming on the
>track during extended racing and no doubt is a good idea.
>
>However to expect that the rocker cover bleed into the tank will feed
>back into the crankcase will, I suggest, not work for the reasons
>explained.
>
>I would suggest that both the bigger pipe from the crankcase and the
>smaller from the rocker cover both be fed into the catcher tank. The
>volatiles will vent through the perforated cover and, barring broken
>piston rings or burnt and holed piston tops at the end of the meeting
>there will only be a small residue of carbon contaminated and generally
>degraded oil in the tank, best disposed off and not returned to the
>sump.
>
>Does "Father William" make sense? >>>
>
>
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