<VV> Unofficial St. Augustine Update

[Bruce Schug]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 8:41 PM, D. Barry Ellison wrote:

> Well, after pulling the top off the RH carb yesterday morning, pulling 
> the jet, blowing air thru down the jet and up the cluster, it cranked 
> and ran okay, but I didn't have time to test it warm.  Tested it down 
> here this morning.  Nada.  :(
>
> So, during the "test and tune" section of this weekends St. Augustine 
> event, I installed the borrowed carbs.  MOST ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED!  Ran 
> great.  Enough to probably win IS2 for the day.  Not 100% sure there.  
> My times went from 72+ (spun 90 degrees just before the end), 59+, 58+ 
> (with one carb due to a lost clip), then a 56+ clean run...which given 
> another chance could have shaved about another 0.5s off, but that's 
> all.  They average the times for the 2 days runs so we'll see 
> tomorrow.
>
> The 64 engine has significant blowby.  Very easy driving around town 
> gives no oil out the dipstick or out the exhaust.  Agressive 
> autocrossing requires a clean rag between runs.  It's also starting to 
> smoke out one the left side.  If I make it through the runs tomorrow 
> w/o breaking anything, I'll be lucky.
>
> Wish me luck!
>
> The SIGNIFICANT part of the update...Chris Brito in a LM full fledged 
> race car...FTD of 50.1+...and that INCLUDES an 88 CRX w/VTEC and 2 
> Subura AWDs.  (I would still vote for AWD cars being in their own 
> class)
>
> The pig went on another diet today.  It got so hungry for beef it ate 
> it's own clutch, enough to stop the starter from engaging.
>
>

Glad to hear you got your problem solved. Sounds like you'll be ready 
for the drag race in a couple of weeks.

Bruce






Bruce W. Schug
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