With so much metal debri though out the engine Would you recommend getting a new engine? ...or just replacing oil pump timing belt other components work?..where does all that metal debri exactly go? Does it All get flushed out after changing lifters and camshaft or does some of it stay inside small crevices Creating potential future problems ?
The lub is not the problem for a new cam going flat. Take a new lifter wipe the bottom off drag your finger nail across it take a pencil and drag it across the lifter you can feel the file as it is filing the lead off of the pencil along with your finger nail. A ground surface is a poor finish. Now take a sheet of red crocus cloth and a old phone book or soft back book `put the sheet down face up. Now take the lifter an rub it in all directions tilting it as you go (a lifter is crowned) until it is smooth like a piece of glass now run your pencil across it it is now longer a file and will not file your cam lobes down, a new lifter is a file. Without doing this what happens is after a cam is run softly for a while, (without polishing the lifter) it finally wears the grind marks off off of the lifer. If you are running real heavy springs a lot of racers will pull the inner spring out to cut the pressure on the cam lobes. When resizing con rods leave the bore 2/10 under sizer wrap crocus cloth around the mandrel then do the pencil and `finger nail test, now you will not have bearing material transfering and killing the oil clearance. Think about this crank shafts are polished after grinding. Me, a long time machinist in large machine shop doing ship repair, paper mill, mining equipment, saw mill, and a GT1 road racer driving a Camaro . This something I have just kept to myself over the years. Have fun, Don
Leave it to the Aussies to put up a super good and informative video. Really appreciate you guys taking to time to give such an in depth explanation of how a top fuel dragster has to be set up. Goodonya all and good luck and safety!
what body is that id like to buy that funny car body for my 1st funny carI need to know who makes them funny car bodies and how do I get in touch with them about buying that body for my funny car
how do you drive these funny cars and how do you tune these beasts and how do you look after these Beasts inbtween races Id like to learn about it from Mick the Mongoose walker
Dave Turner did you get an answer? Back then, 10,000 was average. I think FIA uses NHRA rules which limit the percentage of nitromethane they can use. If they used 100% ch3no2, it'd be more. If they used any number of banned fuels or additives, it'd be A LOT more.
