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1. Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: "Carl Braun" <clbraun@mwci.net>; Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:56:06 -0600; This quote comes from Robert Kansa's earlier email: "So there we were...having a great first run at mid Ohio..BOOM...cause was most probably just stupidity, and an engine that was running fatally lea; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00013.html (8,377 bytes)
2. Re: Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: Larry Dent <lwdent@fwi.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:02:41 -0500; The new high eutectic (spell ?) low expansion pistons require a HUGE end gap on the top piston ring. a 4 inch piston in a 289 requires almost .040 gap because the piston reflects so much more heat do; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00015.html (8,067 bytes)
3. Re: Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: WSpohn4@aol.com; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:03:32 EST; A buddy of mine had a Ginetta G4 with 1000 cc Cosworth and regularly used that sort of rpm. Really screaming for those days, but not as amazing as the longer stroke Twincams. Of course with the 1000,; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00016.html (7,577 bytes)
4. Re: Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: "Carl Braun" <clbraun@mwci.net>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:49:22 -0600; Yes, that's what I understand about needing more ring gap on the hypereutectic piston. I don't know if it is true, but I hear because they are high silicon castings they aren't as strong as forged pi; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00017.html (9,348 bytes)
5. Re: Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: Larry Dent <lwdent@fwi.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:44:02 -0500; Well the downdraft pushrod formula 3 ? engine I had in the Lotus 23 that belonged to Charlie Gibson, and with which he won several championships, as I recall, had a red line up around 13,000. It was; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00018.html (7,794 bytes)
6. Re: Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: Stan Hanks <stan@tta.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 09:53:41 -0800; ^^^^ Damn, Larry.... that makes you almost as old as Al Zim!; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00019.html (7,210 bytes)
7. Re: Venolia Piston Failure at Mid Ohio (score: 1): Author: Larry Dent <lwdent@fwi.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:20:40 -0500; OK, that was a typo. It was 1870. HA HA. L.D.; /html/vintage-race/2003-11/msg00022.html (7,320 bytes)

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