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i discovered today that my throttle cable is missing the teeny tiny little nut that goes on the end, against the threaded plastic barrel. if anyone has something in a spares box that’ll fit please bring it.
also, someone posted the need for a stock airbox on the nasa-se forum: http://www.nasaforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40459
I think I have an accel cable nut, I’ll check tonight.
I posted in that NASA thread. I can cover that guy.
thanks ranger. i think al taylor is bringing me one as well so if you can’t find it easily don’t make a fuss over it.
I guess enough time has passed that I can tell this story…
Once Saturday morning at CMP 2yrs ago when I was in the engine-of-the-month club, Al happened to notice that my ignition cable linkage was fubared. I was missing the little white piece so the PO had put in some spacers or something in lieu of. Al looked at it and says “nah, I think I’ve got that thang”. Al, bless him, stumbles back to that SpecE30 parts explosion he calls his paddock space and comes back with the little white threadedpiece. He says “Here, I’ll show you how it goes in.” He disassembled my perfectly serviceable jury rig and threaded on the correct part, the white plastic thing.
That was the debut of that particular motor and it was clearly weak. “God, won’t this ever end?”, I thought. I forget the saga of that particular motor but it would shortly thereafter do miserably in compression and leakdown tests and so was pulled for good reason.
At the next event I had a different engine. It too seemed week. But, I thought, maybe I’ve just gotten really rusty. Soon after I got to looking at the throttle linkage and it just didn’t seem right. IIRC the little vertical pin that rides in the black plastic piece, I mean the 1cm long pin that the cable goes thru, was missing. As a result the white threaded piece was sticking out thru the black piece. “Where the hell did that little steel rod go”, I wondered. And then I remember Al pulling my throttle linkage apart. The result was that I wasn’t getting the last cm or so of throttle movement. No wonder I had a weak engine, 2 of them actually, at 2 separate events, and they were both weak.
But like I said, that first engine failed a leakdown and compression, so it needed to get pulled anyways. No harm done.
Not only were you missing the last cm of movement but you were not getting to WOT stage on the TPS. This means you were never in the open loop map in the ECU. That has happened to quite a few of us and is the first thing we look at when we think we are down on power. Mine happened after installing the Sparco strut bar and I had to bend the bracket a little to clear. It added enough slack to not trigger WOT.
Michael
Great Lakes SE30 Series Director