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To: "'Don Marshall'" <dmar823@gmail.com>, <yellow04@tr4racer.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] pop up pistons for the TR2-4 engine ? RE: TR3 Race pistons and liners
From: Jim Gray via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 15:03:59 -0700
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Either a catastrophic, nonlinear mechanical exasperation or a sudden un =
scheduled disassembly.

jg

From: Fot <fot-bounces@autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Don Marshall via Fot
Sent: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 1:21 PM
To: yellow04@tr4racer.com
Cc: Friends of Triumph <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Fot] pop up pistons for the TR2-4 engine ? RE: TR3 Race =
pistons and liners

=20

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On Tue, Nov 9, 2021, 12:26 PM Henry Frye via Fot <fot@autox.team.net =

A heck of a lot of races have been won by wet-liner TR's running pop-up=20
pistons. And I'll bet none of them ever had a head collapse.

Just sayin'...

On 2021-11-09 11:44, Alexandre Camoletti via Fot wrote:
> Gents,
>=20
> I recall, but I may be mistaken, that Kas wrote in one of his books
> that he had experimented pop up pistons but because of the specific
> shape of the TR2-4 combustion chambers the pop up design was
> detrimental to the propagation of the flame front and actually this
> was offsetting the compression gain, so he abandoned this route to
> remain on the traditional milling one (with thin steel headgasket,
> which can make quite an additional difference).
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class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal>Either a catastrophic, =
nonlinear mechanical exasperation or a sudden un scheduled =
disassembly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=3DMsoNormal>jg<o:p></o:p></p><div =
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0in 0in'><p class=3DMsoNormal><b>From:</b> Fot =
&lt;fot-bounces@autox.team.net&gt; <b>On Behalf Of </b>Don Marshall via =
Fot<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 9, 2021 1:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> =
yellow04@tr4racer.com<br><b>Cc:</b> Friends of Triumph =
&lt;fot@autox.team.net&gt;<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fot] pop up pistons =
for the TR2-4 engine ? RE: TR3 Race pistons and =
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class=3DMsoNormal>On Tue, Nov 9, 2021, 12:26 PM Henry Frye via Fot =
&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:fot@autox.team.net";>fot@autox.team.net</a>&gt; =
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style=3D'margin-bottom:12.0pt'>A heck of a lot of races have been won by =
wet-liner TR's running pop-up <br>pistons. And I'll bet none of them =
ever had a head collapse.<br><br>Just sayin'...<br><br>On 2021-11-09 =
11:44, Alexandre Camoletti via Fot wrote:<br>&gt; Gents,<br>&gt; =
<br>&gt; I recall, but I may be mistaken, that Kas wrote in one of his =
books<br>&gt; that he had experimented pop up pistons but because of the =
specific<br>&gt; shape of the TR2-4 combustion chambers the pop up =
design was<br>&gt; detrimental to the propagation of the flame front and =
actually this<br>&gt; was offsetting the compression gain, so he =
abandoned this route to<br>&gt; remain on the traditional milling one =
(with thin steel headgasket,<br>&gt; which can make quite an additional =
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