Car was acting up a bit last Sunday afternoon when we were practicing launches in a parking lot. Got to the track tonight only to find it was acting up again - it would run fine, then slown down and eventually stall. Some vapor/smoke came out of the vent tubes, so we dug into it.
Found that the oil dipper broke off the rod bolts, [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img] Pretty mangled up. Without this 'slinger' there is no oil going to the bore nor the rod to crank surfaces.
I pulled this rod cap with integrated oil dipper from another engine we have, hopefully it will work better:
Aligning the cam/crank, tomorrow is another day - hopefully we'll make it down the track!
