[DeTomaso] Award for the month!

Dave Londry davel at emspace.com
Thu Jun 3 13:57:43 EDT 2010


Thank you gentlemen, thank you!
The dipshit award for the month goes to, wait for it ..... ME.

My only excuses are
- the manual doesn't say so
    (too obvious I'm sure, but I just haven't been around , 
pushrods/cams/distributor drives for so long)
- the next bearing is engaging just there, so it's easy to look at that.

It comes right out and the bearings are unmarked.
It was a CompCams 275DEH which by great co-incidence was what I was 
going to order,
  until Dan ran a sim with Bullet profiles that got  35 more HP.at the 
same revs.
They also had it advanced 3 teeth, which I make as 22.5 degrees and 
don't understand.
I have a new gear and chain coming in, but the old one had only 0.25" of 
play and no sign of  having skipped.
6E is indeed missing 0.140 of lobe.
The rest of the lobes vary by 0.015 and I don't like the variety of wear 
patterns either.
The lifters were perfect, except for 6E which was 0.125 short.

I'd crack a beer, but it's 10:30 AM and I'm doing taxes.
dave




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