[Fot] Nuerburgring Nordschleife 400 km race

[Bill Babcock]

Wow, that sounds like a pretty cool weekend to me. What kind of tool  
did the hotelier devise--that sounds impossible! The only way I know  
to get the long studs out when they break at the bottom is to make a  
pilot bushing to center a drill onto the broken stud, use a long  
(jobber length) drill bit to drill a hole in the stud, weld an easy- 
out to a drill rod and weld a T-bar onto the other end, insert the  
easy out and pray while you turn. All that takes several hours.

Where do I find a hotelier like that?

On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:10 PM, MadMarx wrote:

> I really hate to tell you that it wasn’t a successful weekend for me.
>
> At first practice one of the clutches slipped (gearbox or OD), the  
> engine went hot at full throttle and forced out water, the new  
> starter motor failed.
> I replaced the head gasket and while torquing  up the head nuts nut  
> #5 jumped one thread over. The threads were gone on that part.
> I drove 200mls to get a new head stud, torqued it up and - BANG –  
> the stud snapped at the lower thread. It was one of the long head  
> studs.
> Now the thread was burried down in the block. End of race – I  
> thought but after I told my hotelier about the misfit he invented a  
> head stud extractor while I had breakfast. With that tool it took 10  
> minutes to get that thread part out.
> I recycled my old head stud, used 3 washers to reposition a new nut  
> on a different part of the threat and was able to torque it up.
> Now the car was ready to race, temperature was fine at full  
> throttle, the car went uphill 133mph at 6000 rpm in overdrive! The  
> car was smoking a lot from the scuffed pistons which all 4 are  
> scuffed, not only two as I thought.
> The balance felt great and I was starting from behind and overtook  
> about 15 cars in one lap.
> Then a Healy driver pointed at my car and shouted that there is  
> something wrong with my car. I stopped racing and had a look at the  
> engine.
> A half a liter water was forced out – nothing else. Might have been  
> a trick to stop me because I did overtake him several times.
> But after the whole field had passed me I retired and went to the  
> pits.
>
> I suppose that the water pump is spinning too fast at 6000 and start  
> cavitating which cause the water loss.
> But the one race lap I did was fun  but not what I wanted – I wanted  
> to be more in front.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
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