[DeTomaso] Fw: Re: Pantera fall down go boom :<(

[Dave Londry]

Nice experiment Bud.
I think 1200 rpm of the distributor is 2400 of the crank, or I'm looking 
at what you said the wrong way.
Doesn't matter though - I doubt the oil pressure is much higher than 75 
anyway.
  I'll try the 0.040" bit and then figure out what to do after I break it.
tks
dave

On 6/23/2011 11:49 AM, B Hower wrote:
> FWIW,
> Here is photos I took today of my squirt-er trial. I found the plug 
> that comes in the standard kits to be very very hard. I finally got a 
> hole in one -- but larger than I wanted -- something under .060 but 
> much more than .030.
> The oil plump is an 84A not HV. My drill turns at 1200 max speed = 
> only 600 crank speed ( distributor runs at 2X crank speed ), and oil 
> pressure at 1200 = 75 lbs. at rear of block. The stream of oil from 
> the galley plug is hitting dead on with the plan, but may be a bigger 
> stream than needed. It seems that the stream is full diameter at 20 
> lbs oil pressure. I'm not sure what difference would be seen if motor 
> was actually rotating.
> 4670 = shows stream from plug
> 4671 = shows stream from plug at real low rpm
> 4672 = shows stream from plug and shows it spraying onto the cam gear 
> above where the distributor gear would be.
> Comments invited,
> Bud
> --- On *Thu, 6/23/11, Dave Londry /<davel at emspace.com>/* wrote:
>
> From: Dave Londry <davel at emspace.com>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Pantera fall down go boom :<(
> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 4:54 PM
>
> Hey I went happily out to my shop to do the drilling and then met with
> reality.
> The smallest drill I have is 0.040" and the only chuck I have that will
> take even that one is on a dremel-clone thing.
> It's really 0.030 - that's like a carb jet??
> dave
>
> On 6/19/2011 8:17 PM, MikeLDrew at aol.com 
> <http://us.mc1101.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=MikeLDrew@aol.com> wrote:
> > In a message dated 6/19/11 19 55 48, doug351c at gmail.com 
> <http://us.mc1101.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=doug351c@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >> Did you drill a 0.030" hole in the oil galley pipe plug that points 
> at the
> >> gear?  Both my engines got this mod from my two different builders.
> >>
> > Mine was supposed to get that treatment too, but somehow it was 
> overlooked.
> >    I plan to do it this time though.   I'd be interested to see detailed
> > photos or links showing exactly where to drill the hole?
> >
> > Mike
>