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Hi Craig and Justin!
I still have one of those cool pulleys made from stainless. Didn't rust and was dense enough to be as close in weight to a cast stock pulley as possible.
That ratio for the fan means it probably had some blades deleted or was an early 16 blade version, but the ~1:1 was a better match for a 7 or 8k rpm.
No juice from the generator (please note, no wires, yes, but hollow shell) just to support the bearings, shaft and fan but save rear-end weight. A working generator was not needed, per SCCA GCR when Solexes and discs were allowed in EP somewhere around '76, but I'd have to check...I can't remember that far back.
My last Speedster (pictured in street trim in my avatar at left) needed all that brought back almost to 'stock' to run in Vintage. No coil-overs, either. The car came to me with the headlight buckets turned into intakes to ducting that joined and passed through the cockpit and into the engine bay, right into the 'fan' housing. I had to close all that up after removing the roll cage.
I have never seen that point of entry for -10 oil hose, but it likely comes and goes from an external bigger cooler instead of a small upright in the shroud that was replaced by an oil full-flow outlet-inlet adapter on the top of the case, as Justin posted.
The vent hoses, a la 912, from the heads and/or rocker boxes go to the later oil fill which vents into a catch tank in the RR fender, I'm sure. The -6 is obviously fuel and branches from a regulator under the cowl. That is a sloppy set-up, but common for an old EP car in the late '70s.
Oh, that racer could easily make 10 laps+ at any track with the battery alone on 'total discharge' where only the coil needed juice. Usually, a really big heavy battery was up front for ballast of the car for handling and also to meet minimum total weight and charged between sessions.
Many rules were bent if not completely broken to 'win'...the bragging rights to how much money was spent to get none even for first place finishes!
I still have one of those cool pulleys made from stainless. Didn't rust and was dense enough to be as close in weight to a cast stock pulley as possible.
That ratio for the fan means it probably had some blades deleted or was an early 16 blade version, but the ~1:1 was a better match for a 7 or 8k rpm.
No juice from the generator (please note, no wires, yes, but hollow shell) just to support the bearings, shaft and fan but save rear-end weight. A working generator was not needed, per SCCA GCR when Solexes and discs were allowed in EP somewhere around '76, but I'd have to check...I can't remember that far back.
My last Speedster (pictured in street trim in my avatar at left) needed all that brought back almost to 'stock' to run in Vintage. No coil-overs, either. The car came to me with the headlight buckets turned into intakes to ducting that joined and passed through the cockpit and into the engine bay, right into the 'fan' housing. I had to close all that up after removing the roll cage.
I have never seen that point of entry for -10 oil hose, but it likely comes and goes from an external bigger cooler instead of a small upright in the shroud that was replaced by an oil full-flow outlet-inlet adapter on the top of the case, as Justin posted.
The vent hoses, a la 912, from the heads and/or rocker boxes go to the later oil fill which vents into a catch tank in the RR fender, I'm sure. The -6 is obviously fuel and branches from a regulator under the cowl. That is a sloppy set-up, but common for an old EP car in the late '70s.
Oh, that racer could easily make 10 laps+ at any track with the battery alone on 'total discharge' where only the coil needed juice. Usually, a really big heavy battery was up front for ballast of the car for handling and also to meet minimum total weight and charged between sessions.
Many rules were bent if not completely broken to 'win'...the bragging rights to how much money was spent to get none even for first place finishes!
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