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donstevens wrote:
[quote]Ranger,
Sorry to hear about your trouble.
Is it possible that they goy the cam timing off by a tooth? I would think that would make it run like crap?
Don[/quote]
The shop doesn’t perceive that they did. And they do know what they are doing. But of course, nothing is impossible. The compression stats lead me to believe that it’s a 2 cylinder problem, not a cam problem tho.
Scott, Since I didn’t get to go out for qualifying, I watched you guys come to grid. I couldn’t help but notice your car was burning oil as it idled. The burning oil and your compression would indicate the rings in your motor have reached their useful life. You really haven’t wasted any money investing in a new head. Yes the labor to install it was probably a negligable waste but so is racing. 
You have plenty of time to get it right and I’m sure you will be pleased when the bottom end is freshened up.
Look at the bright side, you won’t have any excuses with a new motor. 
Gasman wrote:
[quote]Scott, Since I didn’t get to go out for qualifying, I watched you guys come to grid. I couldn’t help but notice your car was burning oil as it idled. The burning oil and your compression would indicate the rings in your motor have reached their useful life. You really haven’t wasted any money investing in a new head. Yes the labor to install it was probably a negligable waste but so is racing. You have plenty of time to get it right and I’m sure you will be pleased when the bottom end is freshened up.
Look at the bright side, you won’t have any excuses with a new motor. :)[/quote]
Ya, I’ve talked to some other guys and a consensus is developing that carbon build up in the rings is such that a head swap can cause a ring to get stuck in the carbon filled ring groove and not push back out to press on the cylinder wall.
Part of this was just a commo problem. I told the shop that I’d had the bottom end rebuilt all ready. They, reasonably, interpreted this as new rings. If they’d realized that it was only the bearings that I’d had done, they’d a probably pushed hard for me to do more then simply swap out heads.
I was frustrated about the money wasted, but I was more frustrated to blow the weekend’s racing. My last race was RA in July? I’ve made progress since then at both Roebling and CMP and I was all kinds of looking forward to making progress and mixing it up at RA.
Well, I’ll quit whining. I’m looking forward to the race reports so we can find out what happened.
Skeen was going so damn fast thru turn 12 and 1 during the enduro that it was frightening just to watch him. And when I was limping along during qual he shot by me, 3/4 or entirely in the dirt, at turn 3? so fast that my first thought was that he was airborne. Christ there was like a 20mph speed differential. He flew by.
I wouldn’t buy into the carbon build up theory as much as I would the fact that your motor has 250K on it. It is just tired.
Regarding Skeen, Yep, he lapped me in the last lap of the race…came up on me like I was parked. What was so cool, he watched for a point and responded in a milisecond. Scott, you and I can only dream about being that fast.
Since no one has reported yet,
Saturday Race, as I watched from the pit wall:
Skeen
Patton
Steve D.
My weekend in TT went well. I managed a 1.50.8 on Saturday in 4th place. I decided to get up on the wheel Sunday in our second run, and to my surprise ran a 1.48.5. to lead TTEB) I want to thank everyone who responded to my last help me get faster thread. I must have read it 100 times, and it paid off. I picked up 3 seconds over my previous best time.
Also special thanks to Steve D for the tires, and Skeen for delivering my transmission.
See you next year on the track :woohoo:
Ranger wrote:
[quote]87isMan wrote:
That’s awesome dude. WTG![/quote]
Thanks I have you guys to thank!!
I was more than a second faster then the next fastest TTE car:) And the most important part, I beat my Dad both days!!!