Hmm, I seem to have lost all the pics of the building of the throttle bodies, they may be on my home PC, if I find them I will post them up.
It was drawing towards the end of the evening, and after having struggled with the CAM timing it was decided that to cheer the general mood we should put on the throttle bodies. Not exactly ground breaking or difficult, but it did then lead to about 20 minutes of making car noises operating the throttles. Boys with their toys…..
Having done a bit of research, always a dangerous thing, I have come across a few instances of the fingers on the clutch basket deciding that life is too difficult and breaking off. Now in itself this is not the end of the world and certainly would really slow you down much as there are the other fingers to transmit the torque, thats not to say its a brilliant situation as it will now overload the remaining fingers, but was does tend to happen is that when they come off they fire straight off into the crankcase, which is a MAJOR problem.
My first solution was to weld a ring around the outside of the fingers to help to stop them from coming off. In fact this idea was suggested by Dad who used to do it in his karting days! But we then decided against it due to material degradation due to HAZ. So I bought myself a billet basket. Now some people will tell you they are a performance upgrade, but at my level I beg to differ!
the clutch still needed all of the internals from the original, it is just a new basket, and so I needed to drill the rivets out of the original.
