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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