BMC Brian Mc Cullough Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA (383 posts) Registered: 10/30/2007 02:27AM Main British Car: 1980 MGB '95 3.4L 'L32' SFI V6, GM V6T5 & 3.42 Limi |
Daimler V8 powered Racing Midget in Australia (NOT MG)
While searching through the Daimler forums, I found this and thought this might be interesting to the BritishV8 group!
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roverman Art Gertz Winchester, CA. (3188 posts) Registered: 04/24/2009 11:02AM Main British Car: 74' Jensen Healy, 79 Huff. GT 1, 74 MGB Lotus 907,2L |
Re: Daimler V8 powered Racing Midget in Australia (NOT MG)
Long ago, in Gardena, Ca.,(Ascot), raced Daimler V8 powered midget. I read of this in Hot Rod mag. Story made more interesting by the owner/designer, who developed a very early version of CAD and FEA(?), to design the chassis/suspension. According to the article, the car was very competitive, with little tweaking required. Onward, roverman.
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Preform Resources Dave Craddock Redford,Michigan (359 posts) Registered: 12/20/2008 05:46PM Main British Car: 72 MGB V6 3.4 |
Re: Daimler V8 powered Racing Midget in Australia (NOT MG)
Kinda looks like a copy of an old Kurtis Kraft chassis,,, but is that a DeDION rear? interesting.
Dave Guess I shoulda clicked on the link.................................... Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/06/2013 05:27AM by Preform Resources. |
Re: Daimler V8 powered Racing Midget in Australia (NOT MG)
Hi folks I have just joined this forum and one of the posters referred to this post in my intro.
Yes this is my car and yes there is a more extensive post over on the Daimler forum. One of the reasons for posting is to tap into the collective knowledge on here about things automotive and British. Presently I am trying to calibrate my Smiths RVI1000/00 tacho to 8 cylinder functioning. This particular tacho as best i understand it was originally for a 4 cyl engine. It does have a potentiometer in the back of it to adjust it however it does not have sufficient adjustment.the max resistance was approx 8K Ohms. I fitted a 100k Ohm pot . On testing it was apparent that I had to wind it back to 0 Ohms to get best readings even though it was still out. It read 25-30% too fast. Something that has occurred now is that when simply turning on the ignition to power up everything but before cranking to start the tacho immediately produces a full scaled deflection. What is going on here? I am thinking the 100k pot was incorrectly connected and cause some other damage . Any one with any clues on this? I am tempted to convert it to RVC with one of those rebuild kits that some folk now produce for these old tachos. Any clues or tips most appreciated. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/06/2014 07:04PM by fredeuce. |
dz8190 david zavetsky PA (18 posts) Registered: 02/25/2013 03:06PM Main British Car: 1961 Daimler SP-250 Daimler HEMI 2.5L race motor |
Re: Daimler V8 powered Racing Midget in Australia (NOT MG)
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