Hi all ...Dave Terrick here in Winterpeg.
It is 34 degrees and snowing! Yesterday it was 30 degrees and raining.
I retract my earlier comments about not needing a heater in the GT6. While
trying to drive out out of a wheel imbalance i hit an indicated ton... only
80 since I have a 4.11 posi with a 3.27 speedo head... still, pretty damn
fast when the rear end is vibrating like the engine room of the Titanic! I
can only hope that the differential shop DID set the gears right.
Vibration started to go away at an indicated 90 so I slowed down... out on
the motorway at midnight without my cell phone was hardly a smart thing to
do with a car with 150 miles on a rebuilt race motor!
BTW, the Kastner S4 cam is a real delight if you time it late. Earlier I
mentionned an 100 rpm idle - it WILL idle at 900. Anything lower and fuel
reversion just blows the gas out the stacks and the car stalls. Also, the
resonances disappear at about 2800 (not 3500 - 4000 as promised when
correctly timed) and the sound becomes bearable, nay, enjoyable.
I appear to be getting around 25 MPG (imperial) in the city, not the
expected 10.
The car turns heads everywhere. Yes, I know ALL our cars do - but how many
times do the gearheads driving Chevelles and Mustangs look twice?!?
...must be something about the top fuel dragster sounding idle it has.
...Tonight our Winemaker's guild meets. The former president drives a
Miata. He won't even think about droping the top below 5 degrees since
that what Mazda tells him. What a Geek! Guess what Jasmine LBC will be
sitting in the most prominent parking space of our host's home?
How's that for a "Drive your LBC" story?
Triumphantly yours,
Dave "feel even younger and just as foolish" Terrick.
PS: Flood update: waters hae receeded. The 64 Healey 3000 survived the
flood by about 6 inches.
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