UniBrain Trust

Back from the trip and try to tune the car. One of the local club members
looks at the jetting on the Weber 34/36 DGAV and notes the mains are tiny
compared to his Cortina. We also noted there was an internal power pump.

Today, Friday, is Club Lotus Northwest’s track day at Portland International
Raceway. On the track the car was a dog. Way to rich on the lower end and way to
lean at anything above 4000 rpm. We get Jay Ivey (a well known Formula Ford
Engine Builder) to take a look. He immediately rips out the tiny mains and the
internal power jet, installs some fat mains and sends me back on the track.

This time things are much better. The car pulls harder and will actually pull
past 4000 rpm! I’m still shifting early (5000) as the engine has under 5 hours,
but this is a blast. More carb work still needs to be done but the day is
running out. When some of the other things are sorted I’ll return to the carb
jetting.

Wow! That was fast! I drove around the block today, finished up a few last
minute items and drove to the local Lotus club meeting. During the unofficial
tech inspection, a couple of assembly errors were found including a rather
dangerous omission. Seems I forgot to put the jam nuts on the steering knuckles.
I made a note to drive home slowly.

So far these are the things that need attention:

• Speedo doesn’t work. When I assembled the transmission the speedo gear
  didn’t quite mesh with the transmission gear. I guess I’ll have to find a
  slightly larger gear.
• Carb is WAY out of adjustment

Unfortunately these will have to wait until the end of the month as I’m off
for a 3 week business trip.