The Mole, I would not suggest you start saving for your hot engine.
There is virtually zero chance anything will come of what I posted.
I don't need the money which building engines would generate and I sure
don't need anything which takes up my little free time.
I am busy handling investment clients, writing for firearms, automotive,
aircraft and military history magazines, developing loads for my 1874
Sharps rifle, trying to peddle off my 85 Seville, find a bargain on a new
or late model Seville, set up some touring plans for october (just returned
from the UK and Ireland month long holiday), handle the shooting sports BB
on Prodigy...and.. chase my young wife around the house in my spare time.
I manage to put aside some chores and attend to this list because I have
things to tell about and help to render.
If there was some guy near me who wanted to actually race a Series V I
might be talked into building up one fast car and go to races with him.
Remember....I posted previously, that my major car effort concerns SS cars
and early Jaguar models and I have projects started with the factory
archives dept and elsewhere. This stuff needs doing before all us old farts
die and take to the grave all the stuff we already know about historical
and technical matters.
Can you believe...I have in a Denver museum, a sweet 1920 Buick K45 touring
car with only 30,000 miles and it runs like new and has zero non original
parts on it! I have NOT had time to run it out the door there since 1982!
I go there each year, oil the engine, crank it over, turn the tires, oil
the leather again and breath a sigh of frustration because I have no garage
space here in FL. I will sell it for around $15-16K and it's worth more.
My problem seems to be that I have accumulated too many toys and have not
enough time to play with them ??? You think I can find time to build SV
race engines?
I retired from the FL Attorney generals staff where I was the technical
expert for the FL Lemon Law program. I sold my 6 berth ocean going yacht
and even sold my nice house with swimming pool! All so I could buy some
free time and enjoy spending money on fun stuff. Despite all these
complaints I still am tempted on the SV engine building.
Perhaps I might be of help as a consultant but then i don't know if even
this is possible, since I need to eyeball almost everything which is done.
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Joe: I seem a bit confused with this ringing test of the crank. Jarrid
repeats all the prior message and it looks like it is your message, then
adds to it a new part from himself. Others do the same and I cannot
sometimes see what was really being said due to incomplete sentences and
assumptions being made.
Lets get back to some clear yes/no statements from everyone and please
leave off the prior message you are replying to as it only bulks up the screen.
Joe, the camshafts are ALL cast iron...no exceptions. I expect they are
nodular pearlitic cast iron which is a very hard material and has over the
years proven good for camshaft use.
They don't ring much, as you found out.
Now the SV crank...you wrote that one had a nice ring which sustained a few
seconds as we would expect from steel. The second SV crank did not ring
well and that (IMO) is because it has a heat blued detempered journal which
has ruined the pure line of vibration. Like a piano string with a soft spot.
You have no series 1,2,3,4 cranks but others do. Can we get a test report
from someone please and please use plain talk as to what you found.
Unfortunately, regardless of any of these reports, we still lack a
convincing expert examination but I do feel the weight of opinion indicates
a forged steel shaft with (as Jarrid states) some chance it might be a cast
steel shaft.
Until this unknown metalurgist or manufacturing engineer from the foundry
industry of forging industry has made an official exam of a SV shaft, we
will have to let this matter hang dry .
Dick T.
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