[elky] Re: Monte Carlo final report for the day. Still not running yet, but much, much closer.

Jim, here:
  I have to share with ya'll how Mary Ann laughed when I told about out BFT.
Had a new dimension for the term "Fire in the Hole!"
Sure glad I was there with a giant wet towel and the dry powder fire bottle.

I suggested to Ray about having a third person there with a camera to catch
the flaming action; he vetoed the idea,
No sense of humor.  :-))

You want to talk about 2 old dudes having fun!

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Final report for Friday.  I was sorta caught up in a million things.  The
> Camaro this morning, the Burb and its PS hose and the race car, the Target
> 550 post...and Jim had to deal with MaryAnn's car and some of his own
> stuff.  However, we made a lotta progress this afternoon: mainly learning
> about Demon carbs.  We had to do a buncha research just to find out which
> carb it is (Speed Demon 750), then find and print out the manual and go over
> it.
>
> Once we did that, (we'd already set the static valve lash, but went back
> and checked it again, since the valve covers were still off) we did our best
> to set the float levels, then tried to fire it up.  No luck.  Not even a
> whimper out of it.  I checked the power to the MSD box, thinking it sounded
> like we didn't have any spark.  But that was fine.  By that time, both of us
> were so frikkin goofy from fatigue (I was as clumsy as a left-handed monkey)
> that we decided to quit before we screwed something up big time.
>
> Then I went back to work on the Target 550 post for the week and got it
> taken care of:
> http://www.target550.com/gallery/124_brakes_plumbing_dash/index.html  I
> really suggest checking this out to see the brakes (Wilwood carbon fiber)
> and the motors (HUGE frikkin Whipple blower on each motor) and also the air
> line plumbing for at the dash board.  Talk about trick...there's an air line
> that runs into the steering wheel for the air controls there.  I'll repeat:
> You gotta see the motor shots.  Just unreal.
>
> Ok.  Not only am I goofy from weariness, I've hurt something in my left hip
> and I need to let it relax for a bit, then get in the shower and let some
> hot water pulsate on it.  (That's all I need...hot water after a day in the
> mid 90s with high [for us] humidity.)
>
> As a final thought, I think I know why the motor won't fire up.  We set the
> fuel pressure to about 2.5 psi, thinking that we had way too much.  The
> Demon manual suggests setting it between 6 and 7.5 psi.  We're MUCH lower
> than that.  That'll be the first thing we check when we get back to it,
> probably tomorrow afternoon.  I've gotta change the oil in the Camaro (I've
> got some 30 weight and a quart of ATF for the detergent in it) for a fresh
> filter and some plain vanilla 40 weight.  I know everybody else on the face
> of the planet uses multi-viscosity oil, but I've been running 30w in the
> fall/winter/spring and 40w in the summer for years and years.  I've only had
> 2 motor failures in the last 15 years and neither of them had anything to do
> with the oil viscosity.  One was because of a high-volume oil pump (I'll
> never make that mistake again) and the other was due to an "inexperienced
> driver" who failed to comprehend the importance of the gauges indicating
> little things like temperature and oil pressure.  Enough said about that.
>
> Anyway, I'll get back to it tomorrow.  I think the chances are pretty good
> that it'll fire up.  How it runs is a totally different story that we'll
> have to we'll have to write as we go.  Stay tuned.
>
> r
>
>

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