what a bugger!
75dbl limit? shit that is low,
96 db is the limit at Darlington Park, (that's only because of the greenies)
and i thought 96 was low?
Heath
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pooley, Trevor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 14 May 2001 4:40
Subject: Trev's tail of woe.
> Nat,
>
> You didn't miss out on much. I told Mike to go out and take it easy, no
revs
> over 5000rpm only 90% throttle and no heavy down changes, we were worried
> about being pinged as they have a 75dbl sound limit at sandown. I had also
> just put on a new head and wanted to make sure everything was OK before
> running it hard. The car did one lap and was sounding nice and all seamed
> ok. Until on a gentle change down to second, no over rev, at the corner
> before the back straight the engine went tinkle tinkle and the car
stopped.
>
> After the car was towed into the pits I pulled the rocker cover off to
find
> six lash pads were dislodged. After same time I noticed that the chain was
> not in it right position at TDC on the cam sprocket and when I tried to
> reinstall the rocker arms they were at an angle as I had to wind the
> adjusters right up. At this point I turned the engine over to TDC and
> noticed that the cam was not in its correct orientation. I also noticed
that
> the top of the valves were lower that normal. At this point I went looking
> for something else to drive. Bring on the Nissan micra!
>
> I pulled the head off last week to find all the valves bent, some of the
> guides were broken and the cam had some minor damage (currently at Wade
> being fixed). The chain was quite loose on the tensioner side and I
thought
> the chain tensioner had popped out (it didn't). The dowel on the cam had
> worked its way out and explains why I bent all the valves.
>
> So anyway the head is getting some more port work at the moment and will
be
> sent to a local machine shop for new valves, valve seats and work on the
> guides.
>
> See ya
> Trev
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Errol Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 7 May 2001 6:40
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: To Trevor Pooley!!
>
>
> Nat,
> My apologies. I rang Trevor last night and they were running on Sunday as
> well as Saturday. I didnt know it was a two day event. Trev is on a course
> this week so cant get his e-mail, so I can give you a precis of what
> happened.
> His brother had an over-rev on a down change on the first run on Sunday I
> believe and flipped out a heap of lash pads with resulting valves touching
> pistons. The engine will be pulled down during the week and
> investigated/repaired for the next round in 4 weeks
> Cheers
> Feral Errol
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.datrats.com.au/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nat P.
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: To Trevor Pooley!!
>
>
>
> Morning, I was going to seeing you race but I rang
> Errol and he told me that it was on saturday!!! Sorry
> how did you go??
> Cheers NAT
>
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