Well, we indeed made it to the TnT at MGR on 4/6, but Amanda's special 12.90 engine is looking like an 'Epic Fail' [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img] The first time out the car would not go 10', it just sputtered and died 4x. I had oil & fuel coming through a head bolt. Now, even after resealing, then a shorter bolt, then resealing it again, I can hear the compression coming through the bolt by turning it over slowly by hand! The engine has but 42 passes on it, still has the cross hatch in the bore! In theory, it should have at least ran down the track (poorly), so we ordered up the special HP 12.90 clutch ramps - no different. So I'm shipping it back to HP for a full evaluation. Beyond bummed. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img]
We installed the backup engine for now, and will fire it once I get the oil baffle system reconfigured. I guess I should be happy that we even got this far with the second car so early in the year - which is when you want to find this bad stuff out. Still a bummer.
Ben's car ran well considering we changed his engine too, ran 8.82 right off the trailer and an 8.88 after a clutch adjustment - very close to the magic 8.90 number. He was thrilled with his car, not so much with having to pilot Amanda's that day as he remembers all to well our issues with his 12.90 setup.
Ben in 'The Slow Car', at least it has the 'Boy Body' on it for the TnT!
Block face sure looks clean, note slight 'scratch' on the top - can't imagine that is the culprit though.
Very clean bore:
Overall, a bummer of a day, but still not a bad place to be - at least the golf cart went faster (we bypassed the governor mechanism [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] )
