Yesterday marked the start of the "new season"....we had Tank Day and we actually got something done.
Last weekend I was supposed to have gone and collected the short motor that we're going to use for next year but I had a case of the "fire drills" yeah, that means EVERYBODY OUT ALL EXITS NO WAITING!!! I had a fever. the shakes ,aches and various systems were not functioning in their usual failsafe confidence inspiring way....there was no way I was going for a ten hour drive.
We hoisted the motor. We're keeping the heads, ditching the custom Goggles inlet manifold and looking to get a twin TB sidewinder version made by a local performance crowd who reckon it dynoed with up to 20% more torque and revved over 7000rpm.We ran with a stock cam this year, that goes in favour of one that will produce power up to 7k and we'll be getting another flywheel. The old motor looked just like it did when we put it in , save for a few exhaust leaks, nothing looked tortured and as we thought the heat shields that we made stopped anything getting cooked.
One disappointing find was that one of our fire bottles had crapped itself,I'm here to tell you that Aluminium fire bottles aren't worth shit, period. It had a hole where there wasn't supposed to be one, and all the stuff got out.......inside the car. This year we were on the lower limit of how much extinguishant that we needed. Next year we'll be using steel lines too, I don't trust the Al ones.....they are too easily damaged.We didn't think it would but after a bit of work yesterday it seems we can fit a 12lb bottle in the cab which will do us with the 2lb bottle we have for the driver.
We have lots to do , but we know what it is ......it's just what we can afford no more, no less.
Then we had some beer, gee it was a great day.