Jeff,
Keith Calver is fairly knowledgeable bloke who tends to spit a bit when you
mention DVs name. He used to (probably still does) build the race engines
for an acquantence with a 160BHP+ Turbo A-series which never had a single
engine failure. He came along to the chassis dyno runs of the car along with
myself (we had to sit on the back end of the car to prevent wheel spin on the
rollers).
He does a lot of work with Keith Dodd of Mini Spares and writing is a more
recent thing for him.
Daniel
PS: I totally agree with your comments about the guns (blather and
repetition).
In a message dated 30/10/00 02:22:01 GMT Standard Time, jboatri@emory.edu
writes:
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Spridget content: I had a somewhat rough idle since changing to a
Kent 266 cam. Keith Calver (of Min-Tec; he also writes how-to
articles for Mini-Mania) suggested changing the inlet valve lash to
0.014 and the exhaust lash to 0.017 (the suggestion from Kent Cams is
0.016 for both). Lo and behold, the idle smoothed up. Not perfect,
but much smoother. Hmm, could this be a cam timing problem? Calver's
articles are interesting and provide a source of information that
does not always bow to Vizard. It's nice to not have to single-source
everything about the A series engine. The articles can be found at:
http://www.minimania.com/Article_Type.cfm?DisplayType=Calver%27s%20Cor
ner&CarType=MINI
Well, I hope that this has convinced everyone to do exactly what I
say. Really, it's the only way we'll ever get along...
Jeff >>
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