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Re: Valve Bounce

To: "levilevi" <levilevi@attbi.com>, <LaJoMor@aol.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Valve Bounce
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:54:43 -0600
>I was actually looking more for information on how you can tell IF you're
>getting valve bounce or valve float.

Float is marked by a drop-off in power and a peculiar "flat" exhaust note.

Been there, done that, whilst autocrossing a Formula Vee whose second gear I
could not find on downshifts.  The owner told me to keep it in second and
let the valves float for the one short place on the course I should properly
have shifted up.  I took second fastest for the day.  The owner told me that
I was driving better than he, and that it was a good thing for him that I
couldn't shift his car properly.

Don't know about "bounce".  Those babies were floating!

Phil Ethier  West Side   Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
pethier@isd.net   http://www.mnautox.com/  http://www.vtr2002.org

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