The Facts
07-23-2006 | 07:08 PM
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Re: The Facts
You guys are all out of control here. We don't have all the facts, and neither do any of you. I will go to mercury this week to inspect the motors and give you all an honest evaluation of what we find. Here is what I know so far. It is a common practice when you rebuild an engine to surface the heads. I would never install a set of heads without doing so. If you surface the heads you increase the compression ratio. In order to compensate for that you relieve the pockets in the heads. This is legal in SBI. Saves the cost of replacing the heads. Does not offer sizable change in performance. OSS rules are NO modifications of any kind. Thus no surfacing. Mike Tomlinsons words to me were. Metal was removed thus disquaification. My only question is if you cannot remove any metal why is it OK to hone the block and use oversize pistons thus increasing the bore size. This would give an advantage. As I said I don't have all the facts. But I will soon and will make everyone understand the difference between the two groups so someone else doesn't put forth the amount of effort we did, and wind up slammed the same way. Mark in answer to your statement I have nothing to prove to anyone. Every race we won was by miles. a few horsepower was not the difference. We are exhausted. Racing with OSS running OPA managing our business and trying to have a family life all at the same time was quite a strain. I do thank you for your offer, but at this time we taking a break. Smitty
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07-23-2006 | 10:27 PM
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Re: The Facts
Originally Posted by Boomer56
You guys are all out of control here. We don't have all the facts, and neither do any of you. I will go to mercury this week to inspect the motors and give you all an honest evaluation of what we find. Here is what I know so far. It is a common practice when you rebuild an engine to surface the heads. I would never install a set of heads without doing so. If you surface the heads you increase the compression ratio. In order to compensate for that you relieve the pockets in the heads. This is legal in SBI. Saves the cost of replacing the heads. Does not offer sizable change in performance. OSS rules are NO modifications of any kind. Thus no surfacing. Mike Tomlinsons words to me were. Metal was removed thus disquaification. My only question is if you cannot remove any metal why is it OK to hone the block and use oversize pistons thus increasing the bore size. This would give an advantage. As I said I don't have all the facts. But I will soon and will make everyone understand the difference between the two groups so someone else doesn't put forth the amount of effort we did, and wind up slammed the same way. Mark in answer to your statement I have nothing to prove to anyone. Every race we won was by miles. a few horsepower was not the difference. We are exhausted. Racing with OSS running OPA managing our business and trying to have a family life all at the same time was quite a strain. I do thank you for your offer, but at this time we taking a break. Smitty
Smitty/Anthony , you guys are true competitors in any level and no matter what happened it happened and now it is time to move on, you guys keep your heads up because you guys are not at fault for nothing. You two are champions in every way in my book and this is just the end of a new beginning for the two of you to take a break and come back to having fun again.
Love you guys, Albert
