[Fot] spitfire head torque and valve adjustment

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I LOVE Thunderhill.  Just wish it wasn't so far away...
 
Good Luck and have a great time.
 
 
In a message dated 3/15/2010 10:02:24 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
norlinengineering at comcast.net writes:

The way  I adjust the valves on the Spit is to first loosen all the jam 
nuts.
Rotate  the engine until two of the valves are fully open or nearly so.   
Then
adjust the mirror image valves of the two that are down.  In  otherwords, if
1 and 7 are down, adjust 8 and 2.  Keep doing this  until all the jam nuts
are tight again.

The Spit goes on the chassis  dyno this afternoon.  We're heading out to
Thunderhill for the Double  National on Wed evening.  Any other FOT'er going
to be  there?

Jim Norlin

-----Original Message-----
From:  fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of  Bobby Whitehead
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 8:34 AM
To: FoT  Triumph
Subject: [Fot] spitfire head torque and valve  adjustment


We'll we're are a three Triumph car family, two race  cars now. The GT6 and
now a 1965 Spitfire we bought from Mac out in  L.A.

I'll give a photo shop on the
cars when I get some  time.

I need to adjust the torque on the 1300 cc head
and I need the  valve adjustment sequence as I do not have a shop manual 
yet.
The Spit has  been raced sine 1973 from Seattle to Huntington Beach with  
the
VARA.

I don't think CVAR is going to let me run the car so much  as there is a 
full
cage which extends beyond the firewall to the front area  of the frame and
radiator... we'll see.... It was a great deal on the  Spitwad and I'll get a
chance to run it with other clubs I'm  sure...

All the best....

Bobby
Whitehead

1971  TR6
1970 GT6 DP
1965 Spitfire EP

and ONE happy  wife.......
well.....   the TR6 IS her  car...

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