[DeTomaso] Dist gear material

[Thomas Tornblom]

2012-04-12 05:39, David Nunn skrev:
> Mike,
>
> Bill Price (Price Motorsport) told me that Mallory produced a batch of 351C
> dist. gears with the roll-pin hole in the wrong place. The hole was either
> 0.100" too high or too low (I can't remember which). Naturally, they all
> wore out (or will wear out) in no time.

This sounds totally bogus IMHO.

The gear should be installed at the correct height, then the shaft 
drilled for the rool-pin.

If this was a problem, then the installer did a lousy job.

>
> Tri-Tec Motorsports (http://www.tritecmotorsports.com) has composite gears
> for the 351C coming out any day now. They've been doing endurance testing
> for about six months, so the gears should be ready for sale. Tri-Tec
> designed their gears by working off of the original Ford drawings for the
> 351C/460 dist. gear, so you can be sure the part is correct. They make Comp
> Cams' composite dist. gears and also supply the NASCAR teams. I'm told the
> composite gears are stronger than steel but more forgiving than bronze.
>

Thomas