Hi list,
Big British Car content mostly. I fitted the new fuel pump to my Sprite
Thursday night and then spend ages sorting out some very old wiring I didn't
like
the look of (some of my early years of ownership & pre soldering iron stuff).
Car drove Ok to Silverstone as just as I was pulling onto the circuit I saw a
1952 Jaguar C type behind me which the owner raced later iin the day. Just
shows real commitment to not only drive your racing car to a meeting but that
its a rare classic to boot.
I had to sort a scrutineering traffic jam of cars to organisational errors
with driving signing on so didn't get to do that many cars. One car I got to
do
was a 1925 Bently with an 8000cc engine and a supercharger bigger than a
Sprite engine to go with it.
Two cars lost left hand front wheels both AC Aces (one was an Acea, looked
the same to me) from 1958 & 1959. Both on WIRE WHEELS and was seemingly caused
by a failure at the root of the thread when the spinner knocks on - both
Spinners recovered with the threaded section still in them but neither car was
hardly damaged.
The Le Mans winning Bentley did two lots of demonstration runs with a lap
times at 110mph (that's the average). Derek Bell did demonstration runs in the
new road car Bentley the Continental GT which in showroom condition, road tyres
etc lapped at 78mph. The 24,000 cc Napier Bentley with each cylinder
capacity at 2 Litres would make a Big block chevvy look small lapped in one
race that
timed at 79mph.
There was a handicap race which started from the pit lane (drivers in the
cars) where the time keeper waves each car away with a Union Jack flag with the
first car having completed a whole lap and then some before the last car
starts. The Napier Bentley did just about the most impressive and smoking
wheelspin
I have seen.
There was one Midget and one Big Healey........
I advised a couple of cars during scrutineering that their oil catch tanks
did not meet the mandatory size - 3 Litres for most cars. This bunch were ok
about this but usually a driver complains that the engine doesn't breath any
oil
etc.etc. The reply is the same, yes but if a piston fails you'll fit the
catch tank pretty smartish. I don't think they are ever convinced. Today a
vee
8 Morgan pulled out of the race and into the pits with a LOT of oil all down
the side. I took an interest in it and lo and behold a 3 Litre oil catch full
to overflowing, oil everywhere including all over the exhaust and I GUESS a
blown piston. Driver: Something must have caused all that pressure. Me:
perhaps a piston has failed. Driver, It can't I have just had the engine
rebuilt.
Me....................... I check with more experienced colleagues some who
work on race cars and build race engines for a living and none could think of
any other reason to dump that much oil - car was a dry sumper but that didn't
seem to make any difference.
My spare ticket I still have so if anyone has a time machine......
Daniel1312
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