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Build Diaries / Re: Getting ready for Bonneville(rebuild)

« Last post by jl222 on April 12, 2024, 08:34:13 PM »

    Engine together headers on checked fuel pressue with electric primer and leaks at an injector, after changing seal several times figured out mounting bracket was bent out an 1/8 in. causing the leak.
 
  fired her up ran great but oil pressure to low after warm up.

 Took pump down to System One [about 70 miles] and found out pump was not set up foe high pressure?

  Oh well, should have been. A spring change and another small part and should have much more pressure.

  AND NO CHARGE

  Also a small leak in #16 90 degree fitting at oil pan.

 Ordered new fitting, hose and oil from Summitt on Friday and delivered on Monday

                  JL222.

       

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THE place for (what you think is) funny stuff. / Re: Stupid joke FRIDAY

« Last post by floydjer on April 12, 2024, 05:42:43 PM »

Woody....He squawks 3 times....Nevermore.     

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THE place for (what you think is) funny stuff. / Re: Stupid joke FRIDAY

« Last post by WOODY@DDLLC on April 12, 2024, 04:02:09 PM »

Is he raven about it Jer? 

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THE place for (what you think is) funny stuff. / Re: Stupid joke FRIDAY

« Last post by floydjer on April 12, 2024, 12:05:37 PM »

There is a big bird sitting on my deck and he seems to be in a bad mood....I wonder if he has irritable owl syndrome..🤔

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Bonneville General Chat / Re: 2004 Speed Week Prius project sent to junkyard in Texas

« Last post by jacksoni on April 12, 2024, 07:19:47 AM »

RE: Every time we think we are getting smart, we find out somebody already did it 100 years ago!!

When I was in training (I'm and Ophthalmologist) and somebody reported a new surgical procedure a faculty member said: " They just haven't read the old German literature. Been done years ago" 

Great story on the Prius. Thanks for sharing.

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Bonneville General Chat / Re: 2004 Speed Week Prius project sent to junkyard in Texas

« Last post by JimL on April 12, 2024, 01:53:00 AM »

That makes perfect sense.  I was only there to answer questions about the Prius (it was on display in a "Toyota rented" room), and a manager came and told me to sit down with Ed at a table.  He had questions about the Prius...kind of general, but pleasant conversation.  There is more "rest of the story" about that evening.

When we set the car up for display, we had the suspension dropped as used at Speedweek.  When it came time to get the car out of the room, down the hall, and out the doors at the ramp....I was told they wanted it driven out.

I said, "That is a bad idea."  The manager said, "I'll drive it out, you just get it running for me."

I did as I was ordered, and by the time the car was juggled into the hall, the engine had the catalytic converter well lit.

It melted the center of the carpet down to the concrete, all the way to the doors.  Smoke alarms went off, it stunk to high heaven, and I got in my own car and drove home from Las Vegas in the middle of the night.

I never did hear who paid the bill, and I didn't ask.

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Bonneville General Chat / Re: 2004 Speed Week Prius project sent to junkyard in Texas

« Last post by Rex Schimmer on April 11, 2024, 07:31:57 PM »

JimL,
Great story about Isky, but I heard it a little differently. Ed Winfield was the guy that came up with the two up and two down idea and I think Isky did the cams. The  Model Ts only have 2 inlet ports so they are shared by two cylinders, if they are fired in standard banger configuration there is a crank position when both inlet valves are in overlap (open). One has been feeding its cylinder air/fuel but when the other cylinder's intake valve opens, it  has the lowest pressure so the majority of the charge is redirected to that cylinder and the other cylinder, on which the intake valve is closing does not get a full charge In the two up two down configuration the cylinders that are sharing an intake port are 180 deg apart and there is never a case of overlap on the intake valves. Each cylinder gets the full charge from the common inlet port.
Whether it was Winfield or Isky it was some damn good thinking.

Rex

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Health, Welfare, and Passings / Re: ISKY was assaulted

« Last post by Stan Back on April 11, 2024, 07:17:34 PM »

I've never met him, but have followed him from the 50s.  I went by the shop 20 or 30 years ago to pick up something a friend had that he'd ordered.  Isky wasn't there.  Discouraged, I wanted to get a couple of his "Isky Dream Wheels" that he gave away every SpeedWeek (I spell it that way so it is unique).  Nobody could find one.  I think that he championed the best tool to have with you while bench racing.  Hope some of you have one.  Following the headlines, I glad he's still invincible.
















 

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Health, Welfare, and Passings / Re: ISKY was assaulted

« Last post by datadoc on April 11, 2024, 06:38:57 PM »

   I think Jack Lufkin used to drive him to the salt. I don't remember which one didn't like to fly. I was amazed by Isky's memory. A few years back Isky autographed his book for me and wrote, he still had questions about my no butterfly slant 6. I ran that engine in the late 60's

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Health, Welfare, and Passings / Re: ISKY was assaulted

« Last post by jl222 on April 11, 2024, 04:43:48 PM »

One time at Bonneville Speed Week about 15 years ago, I was wandering around the pits, looked over and there was Ed Iskenderian! Tough guy!

  Probably the same year he stopped by our 222 Camaro and said ''why aren't more cars built like this?'

 I think he liked the Pro Stock look and the wide tires.

                                     JL222