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61. Re: aw nuts! (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 10:04:05 -0700; Nothoing like finding a house with a good solid roof. -- Original Message -- From: "Susan Hensley" <spitfiresuz@141.com> To: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@gte.net> Cc: <fot@autox.team.net> Sent: Saturday, Ma; /html/fot/2002-05/msg00120.html (9,082 bytes)
62. Re: SU carb mods (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:13:04 -0700; Over 20 yeas of trying to get more out of the stock S.U.'s I found that the time spent in most cases was a total loss. Thinning the butterflies does help a bit but anything else other than velocity s; /html/fot/2002-05/msg00140.html (8,160 bytes)
63. Re: Overdrive Wiring or Not (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 08:54:21 -0700; You won't ned a light if you just fit the awitch so that DOWN is out of overdrive and UP is in. As you are ripping along just left your fingers fall around the switch under the gear shift knob and yo; /html/fot/2002-05/msg00216.html (8,714 bytes)
64. Re: Wandering TR3 (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:27:26 -0800; The early TR-3's had zero caster and when under had braking this will cause you to leap and wiggle over three lanes. Worth checking out. (yes, you want more caster) -- Original Message -- From: "Bill; /html/fot/2002-04/msg00038.html (9,902 bytes)
65. Re: standoff (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:26:11 -0700; Pretty common stuff with a camshaft with lots of overlap. Good set of velocity stacks usually helps retain that standoff a bunch. -- Original Message -- From: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net> To; /html/fot/2002-04/msg00134.html (7,352 bytes)
66. Re: flywheel (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:45:55 -0800; This is the same trouble that I have sent severeal messaages on. The TR-6 engine is prone to this because the crankshaft is a whip ( no overlap). Measured on a scope with potentometers on each side o; /html/fot/2002-03/msg00082.html (9,119 bytes)
67. Re: [Fwd: Re: TR Reunion] (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:55:55 -0800; Ed Also drove on the TR-4 team for me in 1963 at Sebring. Good guy and a sailor to boot. -- Original Message -- From: <Rosspemlee@aol.com> To: <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; <FOT@autox.team.net>; <mediehljr@; /html/fot/2002-03/msg00110.html (7,378 bytes)
68. Re: TR4 water outlet (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:59:58 -0800; I've had this problem (surprise surprise). What I did is install a petcock into the top of the thermo housing as you suggested, then pull the pipe plug at the back of the head, ,where the heater tube; /html/fot/2002-03/msg00140.html (9,700 bytes)
69. Re: flywheel bolts (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:05:19 -0800; You got it Bill. -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com> To: "'Barr, Scott'" <sbarr@mccarty-law.com> Cc: <fot@autox.team.net> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:14 PM Subject: RE:; /html/fot/2002-03/msg00161.html (12,201 bytes)
70. Re: tolerable DRIVE SHAFT run out? (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:44:31 -0800; Bill's got the answer as far as the driveshaft is concerned. You can't do it yourself for or as well as the pros do and it's generally peretty cheap. Frankly I've never had any problem and .020" dose; /html/fot/2002-02/msg00031.html (11,681 bytes)
71. Re: Hillclimbs (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:46:36 -0800; Hillclimbs are terrific and a lot of fun. It takes a little more discipline than outright racing as you have no one to follow or to pace yourself with during your run. You are right about going off b; /html/fot/2002-02/msg00057.html (8,179 bytes)
72. Re: Cylinder head thickness and the PHA (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:43:39 -0800; That was pretty common number to mill off a new head in the olden days. Did a lot of cutting in the combustion chmaber though and usually had a 11.7 ratio. -- Original Message -- From: "Brad Eells" <; /html/fot/2002-02/msg00110.html (8,609 bytes)
73. Re: Cylinder head thickness and the PHA (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 15:43:03 -0800; Pinning the combustion chamber was one of the best things I ever did for the Tr engine. I came up with that after a close inspection as has been described by others here and figured it out on the air; /html/fot/2002-02/msg00123.html (9,803 bytes)
74. Re: Engine Simulation & Cams (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 10:44:35 -0800; You've got the picture. More cam, more compression. The 300+ cams work well though from 4000 to 6500 or a little more in these old time engines and generally it is the cylinder head breathing and com; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00000.html (8,039 bytes)
75. Re: Lucas high output generator? (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:22:34 -0800; This is rather strange as I built all the cars that were run at Sebring in '63 and NONE had a special generator. We might have had some "funny" stuff but none were involved with the generators. -- Or; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00055.html (8,327 bytes)
76. Re: Web Page & wheels (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 11:57:00 -0800; I believe that the early TR-2's and TR-3's had a 4" steel wheel and a 4.5" wire wheel which allowed you to go to 5.5" ( not then but later on) I ran the wires even with breaking spokes all the time b; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00093.html (12,334 bytes)
77. Re: Movie "On the Beach" Great race scene (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:25:09 -0800; I think about half the people in the Cal Club were in that movie,even Alan Fordney (our announcer), lots of Cal Club cars too. Old time stuff out in the open again. -- Original Message -- From: <Bill; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00101.html (9,064 bytes)
78. Re: Lucas high output generator (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:13:29 -0800; We replaced the Lucas Alternator on the TR-6 cars with a Motorola unit that stood up to the revs and never gave a moments problem powering the high pressure pumps of the injection system and all the; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00147.html (13,178 bytes)
79. Re: Camshaft failure? :( (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:28:49 -0800; Yes, this can happen with ANY camshaft. Generally the surface of a reground-cam is smooth but pretty soft and about the only protection they get is to be parkerized ( a coating). The main problem for; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00237.html (11,077 bytes)
80. Re: Camshaft failure? :( (score: 1): Author: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:25:14 -0800; Good point on the assembly lube. I also found that the Kendall oil was great when I was running the turbcharger business. In fact I was doing some stuff for the NASA people and when I put them onto t; /html/fot/2002-01/msg00253.html (9,763 bytes)

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