Mark,
I think you just issued me a challenge to get the S2000 engine into Tiny Tim
"BEFORE" VTR! :)
Joe (C)
Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>
> What a week. It has been hot, several days in a row where the thermometer
> has slithered up over 100. And today the humidity rocketed up over 20
>percent,
> I'm gonna die.
>
> But all is not lost, there was some good news this evening. Cool! I finally
> got around to popping the head off the red racer. I was expecting to see
>holes
> the size of quarters in a piston or two, half inch deep gouges in the walls
> of the cylinders, or something like that. Turns out that preliminary evidence
> shows that the excessive blowby, oil everywhare, overheating and such was due
> to head gasket failure. The pistons and rings appear intact. I was surprised
> to see that the pistons had "STD" stamped in them, while bore size measured
> 40 over. Turns out the pistons are GT-6 units, based on the part number, so
> no need to panic. Well, there is a bit of a ridge in the cylinders, next
> iteration of this 1296 Mark 3 motor could be fun.
>
> So, what to do now. I could round up a new head gasket, and get the little
> red Spit back together for the August IVR and VTR events. Or I could do what
> I think should be done, and tear apart the rusty racer for a complete
>makeover,
> estimated completion, uh, mumble mumble...
>
> Or I could take this really nicely ported head now sitting on the bench and
> slap it on Killer, which would bump the compression ratio up many notches,
> maybe swap cams while I am at it. I'd need a weekend or two to retune the
> Webers. The GT6 gearbox now in Killer boots me out of Street Prepared, so
> why not just forget SCCA Solo classing, tweak the motor and go for maximum
> fun at VTR? And a healthy dose of extra grunt to apply to the RX7s at the
> August IVR event could be waaay fun.
>
> This could be interesting.
>
> mjb.
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