[Fot] The Kastner Cup at Mosport

[Brad Kahler]

Bob, I remember that weekend well!  Here's a couple of pictures of your car.

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On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM Bob Kramer <rkramer56 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My Kastner Cup weekend was more eventful than most, but I did manage to
> exorcise the demons from my blown engine in the 2003 weekend at Mosport by
> finishing the K Cup race in 15th, same position as last year. Unfortunately
> the car suffered multiple issues along the way; a spark plug came apart in
> an early practice session and the ceramic portion was ejected along with
> the attached plug wire. Came in on 3 cylinders but the guts of the plug
> must have gotten sucked in on the downstroke as the cylinder wall got a bit
> scuffed. It was noisy the rest of the way, but not hurting too bad. Then
> another oddity happened dumping most of the crankcase onto the track in
> turn 5. The track workers handed me my oil filter when they loaded the car.
> The steel spin on adapter threads had pulled their mates out of the
> Purolator filter head. I thought my weekend was over but an FOT had a
> replacement head and adapter. When I went to screw on the filter the
> threads on the new adapter seemed a little loose and I took some time
> trying to clean up the threads on the original one, but I couldn’t get them
> cleaned up satisfactorily. I tried the new one again, this time tightening
> the filter all the way and it seemed fine. I was back in business in time
> to qualify and do the cup race. I parked it after that to save it for the
> memorial race. Sunday morning I rechecked everything and made sure the
> filter was tight with an oil filter wrench. As the guys on track know it
> didn’t last. The oil filter came loose and started dumping oil again, this
> time without be noticing until I was 3 wide trying to pass two cars to my
> left coming out of 5C. At speed I got off to the grass as fast as I could
> but I ruined a second session for you all. I’m really sorry about that. I
> restarted it on the grass and since it has oil pressure I was able to drive
> up the grass and get behind the wall and into the lower paddock. I picked
> it up with my trailer and didn’t open the hood. When I saw the loose filter
> it was a relief and regret sandwich. No blown engine, no major issues, no
> fireballs. I’ve oiled a track 4 times in 3 years of racing, once in Tx,
> once here in 2003 and 2 times this weekend. Mosport clearly owns me, but I
> finished the J Cup and that’s the reason I had to come back. I won’t be
> back again!
>
> Bob K
>
> You only get one chance at life, make it a TRIUMPH.
>
> > On Jun 22, 2026, at 8:51 PM, Chuck Gee <chasgee22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
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