[DeTomaso] Award for the month!

P. Rimov rimov at charter.net
Fri Jun 4 00:33:34 EDT 2010


Unfortunately, there is a great deal of competition for the D.A. award and 
although you feel deserving of the award the board of All Things Detomaso 
will have many other candidates to screen before a final ruling.

Cheers

Paul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Londry" <davel at emspace.com>
To: "DeTomaso Forum" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Award for the month!


> 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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