My channel has wide coverage, from old car restoration , engine repair, carburettor tuning, bodywork, race cars and lots more.. Covering Land Rover, Lotus, MGB-GT, Classic Mine , Old Rusty etc.... Besides the rebuild of the 1616 Farm. The intend is to share my methods with you all, and learn from you equally...
IMHO, both sides share some blame with the GT sharing more. My reasoning: This is a ''demo'' day, a day to show your pets in public. Everyone should be aware of the other cars around them as much as reasonably possible. Talk of ''on the racing line'' is not really an excuse, this is not a race. However the GT40, with it's massive hp advantage has a extra duty of caution and trying to squeeze that pass in a narrow opening was bad judgment, whereas, Steve should have been more aware of much faster car overtaking and given it more room. Fault: GT40, 60% Steve, 40%. If EITHER DRIVER, had decieded to be a little bit more cautious this wouldn't have happened.
I am a little slow here. So, if I have a twin Weber 45 DCOE on a 4-cylinder engine, each side feeding 2 cylinders, does this mean I multiply the venture opening by 0.9 OR is this regarded as a single Weber feeding 4 cylinders and no multiplication is needed? 😞
In this case ,you have one barrel per cylinder. Next the intake manifold comes into play. If that is a one to one pipe ( one cylinder to one DCOE barrel) then you don't need to multiplay.
Excellent video. Can I ask where the wiring for the differential speed sensor enters the car? On my car someone has run a new wire from instrument housing/speedo and out through the front bulkhead then under the car to this sensor, for one of the wires and I wish to reinstate correctly, via the correct loom.
Only thing I might add is to make sure you can get the fill plug out before you drain the oil … you sure don’t want to drain all the old oil then find out the fill plug is stripped or seized!
Great video, love the white board explanation, best I’ve seen on explaining the individual circuits, and how they each interact in conjunction with others… great job!
It's always easy after the event to put blame on people, could say keep looking in your mirrors if you know there's a faster car behind, or gt40 had been watching your lines for some laps and thought that was the place to pass, racing incident to me, you could say 50/50 but things happen so fast, you probably thought it was too narrow a spot for him to come past, it's easy to say one or other is to blame, it's just an opinion that everybody is entitled to be it wrong or right, glad it was only minor damage, hope you had fun Steve.
That GT40 too aggressive in this venue. The venue shows honorable restraint for the sake of the cars, not the drivers. In that he failed. Also, it means that You need to upgrade to 512BB LM. 😊
We'd probably need to know more about context of the event and the nature of the series. But, were you aware of the GT40, and had you checked your mirrors? It was much faster out of the corner, and you closed the gap on it. It looks like contact could have been avoided with a bit more awareness. What was the damage to the GT40?
I would appreciate if you cold make a video on how to adjust te chain tension. I find it difficult to get the right tension as it always become too tight after tightening the rear wheel shaft nut.
Hi Steve, assuming this was a track day not a race, the rule of passing for such events in the UK is that the faster cars can only pass on the straights, never in corners or braking zones and ONLY with consent of the driver in front. The driver briefing also states which side the faster car can pass during the event and the car being passed has to indicate they have consented to be passed. In this case the GT40 should have taken more care as its obviously a much faster car. As others have said some drivers do not follow the rules. I experienced this myself on track, when a faster car overtook me not only mid corner but on the wrong side from the instructions at the briefing. Trouble is on track the red mist sets in with some drivers.
fyi . I just checked and adjusted valves on CASE1294 . over 4000 hours on engine . all were 0.009 to .013" a clean engine , but the fan belt was very worn and pulleys do Not line up Exactly. 😕 a new lift fuel pump and glow/preheater will be added. ... Canada west of Montreal.. 👨🔧
Not being biased here but yes the GT40 made the mistake, given the nature of the event. If it was a full competition, I’d say fair game but, this was not a full competition. Interested to know if you had any chat with the driver afterwards?
Steve, I have modified my BMW 2002 with aggressive porting (E21) and a 292 cam. This is in contrast to the stock 264 (I think) cam and regular uncut head. The twin 40 DCOEs were originally set for stock engine and it ran well once warmed up, except always a low end flat spot that forced me to learn to heel-toe when I was a kid. How do I know what hardware to have in my tackle box? I am of a mind to change single variables at a time to observe the outcome. Adding more complexity (or maybe simplicity) is the 123 ignitor distributor that can set advance by blue tooth. Is there a calculation to know what hardware to obtain, and which are the obvious first variables to modify? 95.:1 compression; 94 octane 100% fuel non lead. This probably requires a semester of teaching or its a 200 level course, but I know I can get my mind around this. I have rebuilt my carbs and I know how they work. I am also a cheater or lazy, and I will ask the smart guy. The forums take off in a few directions, and often degenerate into ad hominem quips. I want high end power, but also to be able to take off from a light up a hill. I do track days in my 911, and I would take the '02 to classic meets.
As you were the lead vehicle, the car overtaking is responsible for finding a safe passage around your slower vehicle. The GT40 driver made the mistake by pushing his way through. Even in vintage racing some individuals let high testosterone levels get in the way of safe racing and protecting the cars. In the States, the vintage clubs have penalties for over-aggressive driving that endangers others up to being banned from future events. Cheers from Texas.
As cliche as it is to say rubbing is racing and he definitely got the short end of the stick monetarily. You release liability when you enter your vehicle into a race, exhibition or otherwise
Great video but I'd like to add that you are actually adding an unnecessary step. After you remove the header and blank lines from the log file, it is already valid CSV, in a more conventional format even. A single data point with no comma and then a newline (with dos, unix, or old school macintosh EOL encoding) describes a single column of ascii encoded numeric data, which any spreadsheet can convert for you. For extra points, open the serial port with a python script or something, and every time you receive a value from the serial port, you write the value comma the timestamp comma whatever other data you can interface with, maybe a tps data point if you are into such things, or a digital vacuum sensor reading. then you have quite instantly a very useful graph that tells you a ton - extra extra points, hook in a python graphing library and get realtime graphing while still logging data.
Of course at that point you dont even bother with CSV and just shove it into SQLite and have way faster access potentially and nice searching and sorting and filtering tools built in...
This is why I watch racing and don't do it! Is the next corner a left hander? If you're on the line then isn't it his fault for trying to pass when you were clearly following it? At least a scrape on the side of an MGB is going cost less to fix than a scrape on the side of a GT-40 so you're ahead there :)
A lot of desk jockeys who have probably never raced a car in their life are turning to the rule book. This was a classic car event with cars of very different performances. In these cases slower cars AND flag marshals need to be extra vigilant and keep out of the way. You should have got a blue flag, marshal was asleep. You were probably being lapped ... ? Let's face it you will hardly lose any time in the much slower car staying off the racing line and letting the quick guys through. Sticking 100% to the rules when the other car is like 10 seconds a lap faster than you is just being a bit of a jerk. It is a no contest situation, concentrate on racing cars in the same class as yours and let the others go. And yes my first car race was in a MGB GT and I did alright but a lot of my focus was on my rear view mirrors and letting the E Types and the like have their race too ...
Excellent video. The best I have ever seen. Thanks so much for making this. I am going to go look at a 2009 lotus Elise next week. I am so glade I saw this
I'm inspired by the quality of you videos, attention to detail and desire to share. Came for the motorsport but keep watching for all the topics! Thanks!
I have been a nurse for over 30 years and by the grace of God saved a few lives. Truth be told , I have not always felt right about many of them as their state was a future of medical interventions. Now , saving a tractor ? I have felt pure joy in every single one of them ! I just purchased a $500 1966 David Brown 770 from a couple at church. Their grandfather passed away years ago. It was sitting in his field for 5 years. The old junker fired up after a few electric wires we twisted and fuel poured everywhere along with two batteries. The hydraulics don't work, the rear wheel wobbles, the other rim is rotted at the valve stem, every oil and filter needs a change. I was thinking of scrapping it. Then I started watching videos like yours and realized I am not the only guy out there that spends $5000 in the value of my time and another $1500 in parts and supplies to restore a $1500 tractor when it's all said and done. Are we fools ? Why do we do this ? I have done this at least 20 times ! Why I ask , Seriously why ???
@@D3Sshooter Thank you so much brother. Oh , I long to hear everyone's thought on that question. Unfortunately perhaps I put too much value on time. I have been thinking about this question of mine very hard. Perhaps we all need a distractor in life . Tractor restoration in my book is a better distractor than watching TV or playing video games all day in my book.
GT40 bullying it’s way forward. Always the car from behind that has to ensure a safe pass. It came from far enough back to read what you where doing. Did the driver come up to you afterwards to say anything ?
You have to move over and let him pass if you’re the slower car, but he also needs to give you the right-of-way since you’re ahead of him… Were you ever planning on letting him pass since his car was gaining on you? The GT40 is way more powerful and he was probably waiting for you to do that, at some point, but got too impatient.
Thanks for the comments, of course I let the faster cars pass, but not if it is at a place where i would run into an obstacle ( here a bale of hay for a chicane)
