[Fot] GT6'rs

Sun Jan 21 17:45:15 MST 2018

Wow, that's pretty interesting.  Never heard of that!

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From: barry rosenberg <britcars at bellsouth.net>
To: kkjjk <kkjjk at aol.com>; sjanzen <sjanzen at me.com>; bschirano <bschirano at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fot] GT6'rs

Have yall ever heard of using the exhaust to evacuate the engine? Not quite legal in some groups but easy to hide. From your vent can, use only one, and mount it in the battery box area. Run a tube up from the floor, thru the battery box and into your vent can about 3/4 way up inside the can. Under the car, drill a 1/2" hole in you collector and put a short piece of tubing at a 45 degree angle in cut at a 45 degree angle. Let it stick inside the collector about 1/8". Put a short piece of high temp hose on the pipe then a one way PCV type valve and connect the other end of this hose to the tube coming out the vent can. As exhaust passes the tube in the collector, it will create negative pressure in the engine slowing up leaks and increasing power. NASCAR engines use a vacuum pump and gain about 80 horsepower. I used one on a TR4.

Barry

 On Sunday, January 21, 2018 1:36 PM, kkjjk--- via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

Hello again, Brian.  To add to my response to you earlier, Scott is right about the bellhousing clearance.  I have to check my notes, but I believe that when I lifted the engine, the tranny was out of the car, so I would not have had the clearance problem.  Perhaps if you did not want to get that far into the project, you could drop the pan enough to cut the gasket out and put a new one in and use some silicone gasket cement or similar to seal where you cut the new gasket. Not the best solution, but with that and venting as Scott mentions, it may be an easy fix to take care of the problem.

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From: Scott Janzen via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
To: Brian Schirano <bschirano at yahoo.com>
Cc: 'Friends of Triumph' Triumph <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sun, Jan 21, 2018 12:09 pm
Subject: Re: [Fot] GT6'rs

I’ve never done it.  Certainly not without lifting the engine somewhat, and by the time you undo the water hoses, engine mounts, etc, you are halfway to pulling it.  If you try, you might want to look at how much of a gap there is between the top of the bellhousing and the firewall, as this could inhibit the lift.

Venting - I ended up with a 1” and a 1/2” hose on the valve cover and this cured most of the blow-by issues at the rear seal, etc.  The 1/2” hose was not enough, so now there are two.  Also tried a vent off the fuel pump mounting before the valve cover vents, but the pump cam slung so much oil in this direction that it didn’t work.

If you are getting oil leaks at the front, that fun sealing block may be the issue.

On Jan 21, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Brian Schirano via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:

OK GT6 guys...

Question... is it possible to pull the pan and change my gasket without pulling the engine? Looks pretty tight and I expect the oil pump pick up snorkel will be the problem.
Is a partial lift possible to do this?

It looks like it's pushing oil out of the pan, it's definitely not the timing chain cover (that's what I thought last year and changed that). 

2nd question, if it's pushing oil out the front of the pan (or anywhere from pan I suppose), I'm thinking I need more crankcase vent? and maybe get around this problem short term that way?

Let me know, making garage work plans/list of things to do, for when winter breaks early March

Thanks
Brian

26A GT6+, 28 TR6
Brian Schirano
585-305-0349 Cell 
BSchirano at yahoo.com

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