>From: "Westerdale, Bob" <bwesterdale@edax.com>
>Reply-To: "Westerdale, Bob" <bwesterdale@edax.com>
>To: "'Fred Thomas'" <vafred@erols.com>, triumphs@autox.team.net
>CC: spitfires@autox.team.net
>Subject: RE: horsepower
>Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 13:37:56 -0500
>
>Not to be too much of a skeptic, but 18% seems rather high-- if you had a
>100bhp motor to start with, would it really take around 18 HP to run that
>tiny little fan? I took the Fan out of my 59 3A (as a consequence of
>installing R & P steering) and did not notice any significant power gains.
>A nice reduction in noise, however.... I would agree that the fan and hub
>do not contribute to any (counter) balancing, although you would notice
>it if they were bent or otherwise way out of line. Your thoughts?
>Bob W.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Thomas [mailto:vafred@erols.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:45 AM
>To: triumphs@autox.team.net
>Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
>Subject: horsepower
>
>
>
>While attending VTR S.E., I had the pleasure of listening to John Lye, JK
>Jackson, Don Marshall and the "Lobsta Man", talking about increasing output
>of most all T/R engines, I inquired only about the T/R 3 engine, and all
>agreed by removing the fan and hub and adding a elec fan, would increase
>the
>horsepower by 18 %, when I asked about these acting as a counter balance
>for
>the crank, they totally disagree this is a tale not fact, I just mention
>this as the thread for additional horsepower seems to always come up.
>Listening to these race engine guys talk was very, very interesting to say
>the least. "FT"
I beleive the advantage of going to the "harmonic balancer
instead of the fan doesn't give you horsepower. Rather it cuts
down on vibration that at higher RPMs can be so severe that it
can seriouslt mess up a crankshaft. This is important to racers
as high rpms is where their TR engines "live".
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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