A40 Farina Club

The Swinging Sixities will be racing again over the Bank Holiday at Brands Hatch.
Quali is 11:39 Sunday until 11:50
and
the race is Bank Holiday Monday 26th at 10:05 until 10:45.

Beware they often start early to catch us out.

There should be live commentary and timing on TSL. https://www.tsl-timing.com/event/243464

And

live video on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_9TEKBgGso, Unfortunately it now says live from 12:00 on the 25th so after Quali.

Some photos on the A40 in Practice

The engine suffered a failure of the cam belt drive idler shaft and the belt skipped a number of teeth with the expected engine results. I still maintain in all the years I have been involved with A series engines, I have never had a problem with the duplex chain cam drive system, it just works.

Are the valves interference with the pistons then ? I didn’t think they were.

scotty wrote: ↑

29 Aug 2024 14:23

The engine suffered a failure of the cam belt drive idler shaft and the belt skipped a number of teeth with the expected engine results. I still maintain in all the years I have been involved with A series engines, I have never had a problem with the duplex chain cam drive system, it just works.

Are you still running an A series engine as I am confused regarding the cam belt and idler shaft?

‘Tis an A Series. Cam-belt conversion. Off the shelf parts.

Dave the rave wrote: ↑

29 Aug 2024 17:23

Are the valves interference with the pistons then ? I didn’t think they were.

These valves interfered with the pistons quite a bit, or should I say the pistons did not do the valves a great deal of good.