OK Chuck I'll bite.... Did you ask how many of those blown up wet sump motors had a $175 Accusump? How many of those motors were 600's? Did you ask around and see any 600 Micro's that had the same problem??? CR
Chuck Voboril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave, Here goes... roughly in your order :-> I would not say that 4 strokes suck, but they are nothing special either. I've gone and asked around to verify that I was correct in cautioning people on 4 strokes needing dry sumps. You can add that expense and the dry sump's extra weight to Jay's 50# estimated overall extra weight for a 4 stroke The Wests that CR mentioned still lose R1 motors. One lost 2 motors at one event. In SCCA homologating a car only applies to the chassis. There is nothing to keep one from using a dry sump if the drawings submitted showed a wet sump motor. Not sure what the homologation routine is in IMSA. Phoenix Race cars designed their new F1000 chassis to accept a wet or dry sump motor, but they say one would have to be a slow driver or penny-wise and dollar-foolish to run a wet sump R1. Every race shop I have spoken with says any motor with oil that must be recycled from the crankcase instead of bring burned needs a dry sump if the car makes much more than about 1.2 G. (FF1600 is at 1.6G). Not to say someone may get a really well designed baffled sump and accusumo to work-but I bet it won't work everywhere nor on all motors. Gven a long enough corner, all accusmps run out of oil. Shifting is OK but nothing special either. If gear ratios are to be stock-then I can see people doing engine swaps between different brand 4 strokes depending upon the track. Probably should settle upon one brand and model 600cc motor. Shocks are good to have to improve safety, also good to learn on for those with real pro class racing ambitions. Probably more important to understand than moving a gearshift lever. IMHO below-not official view of MAC: 120 HP should be the driveable target HP for Vees. There have to be some reminders on limitations on the 1600cc 10:1 setup with its non-stock valves and more carb choices so that it will not be clearly superior to the 1915cc 9:1 single carb, stock valve choice. The present SV rules plainly do not allow any chamber work and this should not be changed IMHO. The larger 1915cc bore does not inherently unshrould the valves. The shrouding is from the deep chamber sides next to the valves, not the bore. Chuck >From: Dave Phaneuf >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [F500] List still active? >Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:50:48 -0400 > >Chuck, >Still alive, just nothing to bitch about at the moment. I'm sure you could >start something, maybe like... 4 strokes suck, shifting sucks, shocks >are a waste of money, and the new solo vee's will make 155HP! >....... ducking till Monday. >Dave Phaneuf --------------------------------- TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
