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From: John_H on 5 Sep 2009 23:01 Noddy wrote: > >It's a nice bike and I'm quite sure I have a photo I took of one here in >Melbourne at the last Australia Day parade I went to. If you happen to see the bike again you might ask the owner if he calls it a Peashooter. I've even gotten myself curious as to whether I've remembered it correctly. :) -- John H
From: OzOne on 5 Sep 2009 23:16 On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 12:19:15 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote: > ><OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message >news:1056a59rv76oqj3qdf88qhdfefvf8l4r09(a)4ax.com... > >> No Dod, You claimed it wasn't done > >Feel free to quote me. I really can't be bothered.... > >> Just as you claimed that body shells weren't earmarked for race so >> received extra spot welds on the >> production line. > >Indeed they didn't. > >Half the time the bodies allocated to some people ended up going to someone >else or to a private buyer. The Ford factory cars were always a standard >GTHO grabbed "out of stock and then dismantled and "massaged" at the >special vehicles shed in Mahoney's road. Their bodies were stamped with the >"3999" Sido number (For Ford Australia) only after they were sent to Ford >Performance Vehicles. Prior to that no one on the assembly line would have >known who they were for and there was little point doing "extra work" to >bodies going down the assembly line as there was no gaurantee they'd end up >in the hands of the intended user. > >Of course, if you have evidence to the contrary, then please feel free to >share it. You wouldn't accept that John Goss and I with 2 others walked the assembly line when his Bathurst winning shell was assembled.....despite his problems with Ford racing >> Now you say they were seam welded??? > >No, that was Phill's claim. Yes...It was, He said ">> Do you mean that no full seam welding of bodies, selective parts with the right tollerance, full balancing and blue printing etc took place. You said "No, but none of that made any difference to performance." IOW No you're NOT claiming that it DIDN'T take place. Oh and while I'm referring back....seam welding didn't make the cars go 1mph faster as you correctly stated. What it did do is improve lap times because of a stiffer shell...and better cornering speeds...which let to higher exit speeds which led to extra MPH on straights. > >I'm saying *some* people seam welded *some* parts of their cars in their own >workshops, and yes, it was illegal. None of the cars left the factory with >anything other than the standard GTHO body modifications. > >> and that engines were specially built from hand selected parts .... >> just as I said! > >Nothing at all like you said actually Oz. > >Your claim that "Blueprinting" was assembling an engine by selecting >whatever parts were necessary to get the finest tolerances possible, and >this was done by some people in an effort to get a few extra horses. Ahhh you'd better show where I said that....I do actually know what blueprinting is. > My >claim is that doing so is an utter waste of time as the difference in power >you could expect to gain between using the very best and very worst parts >from the factory parts bin would be so small it'd be hard to measure and >probably fall within the error margin of your average Engine dyno. Actually...You claimed that blueprinting didn't happen..... > >This is *not* what Ford did when building the "QC" engines. > >What the QC engine program consisted of was engines being assembled by hand >with all clearances checked and recorded as the engine was put together, to >ensure it did indeed measure up and wasn't going to have a problem as soon >as it was fired. In other words, the engine got a lot closer attention to >detail during assembly compared to a normal engine on an assembly line where >the parts are thrown together and tightened with a rattle gun. There was no >selecting of the best parts from a large pile. They were just assembled to >within factory tolerance, and the "QC" program was a guarantee of that to >the buyer. Ahhh it's called blueprinting Nod............... OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace.
From: Noddy on 6 Sep 2009 02:31 "John_H" <john4721(a)inbox.com> wrote in message news:p646a51sq7qucnq73pgju7pdg2n5chrinf(a)4ax.com... > If you happen to see the bike again you might ask the owner if he > calls it a Peashooter. Will do. > I've even gotten myself curious as to whether I've remembered it > correctly. :) If I remember the thing correctly it was painted gray, and I seem to recall there being a name of "silent gray fellow" given to early Harley singles. I'm pretty sure it was the same bike as you linked to, but I'll have to find the picture. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: Noddy on 6 Sep 2009 02:49 <OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message news:ts86a55v1b9jt7th2g46qtm7qp6n381j1q(a)4ax.com... > Really!? > > We tried it but found the engine lacked pickup....decided that we did > need an accelerator pump after all ;-) For Christ's sake Oz, all you needed to do was remove the brass rod from the pump check ball chamber on the dead side, and replace it with one a couple of mm longer so the ball was held against it's seat when the cap was fitted. It ain't rocket science. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: OzOne on 6 Sep 2009 03:04
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:49:28 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote: > ><OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message >news:ts86a55v1b9jt7th2g46qtm7qp6n381j1q(a)4ax.com... > >> Really!? >> >> We tried it but found the engine lacked pickup....decided that we did >> need an accelerator pump after all ;-) > >For Christ's sake Oz, all you needed to do was remove the brass rod from the >pump check ball chamber on the dead side, and replace it with one a couple >of mm longer so the ball was held against it's seat when the cap was fitted. > >It ain't rocket science. Hey Nod...we preferred to ensure that there was no way fuel could get into the unused throat. Probably being careful is the reason my Minis didn't leak oil like you claim yours did. Apparently you failed well before rocket science OzOne of the three twins I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace. |