[DeTomaso] Engine Oil Analysis / Willow Springs Update

[Dan Courtney]

I visited the engine today at the shop and for once I may have dodged a 
grenade.
I scorched and spun a couple of rod bearings (one is really torn up) but it 
looks like I shut it down just in time.
There are marks on the #7 & #1 pistons where the intake valve made contact 
but just faint swirls on the pistons. The Lenske rods, the domed Ross 
pistons, the tricked out crank and the cylinders look fine so far. They are 
going to mag everything and check for bent valves.
If my luck holds up I may just need the crank ground a little, new bearings 
and rings and probably re-sized rods.
Vegas is still a possibility.

Dan

Dan F. Courtney


Excalibur Commercial Real Estate Services
La Jolla, CA

Phone (858) 551-5455
Fax (858) 551-5456

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donny Williams" <donnylee at ccwebster.net>
To: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>; "Dan Courtney" <dfcex at pacbell.net>; 
<detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Engine Oil Analysis / Willow Springs Update


> Hmmm Rev Kit...never seen one..... I suppose in the event of Valve Float 
> it would keep you from pounding cam and lifters, but if you have the right 
> valve springs and a rev limiter chip it would not be considered anything 
> more then a snake oil and voo-doo device.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
> To: "Dan Courtney" <dfcex at pacbell.net>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Engine Oil Analysis / Willow Springs Update
>
>
>> Dan,
>>
>>        If the gold plate is in the valley above the lifter, it sounds 
>> like an Isky rev kit.  There would be springs between the bar  and the 
>> lifters on at least the intake valves, maybe both.  A stud girdle is on 
>> the rocker arm studs under the valve cover.
>>
>>  Ken
>>
>> Dan Courtney <dfcex at pacbell.net> wrote:
>>
>>
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