{"id":5236,"date":"2019-11-04T22:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2019-11-06T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:52:49","slug":"944-race-at-amp-and-loss-of-oil-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/944-race-at-amp-and-loss-of-oil-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"944 race at AMP and loss of oil pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We raced at our favorite local track Atlanta Motorsports Park.   We were pitted next to three other 944s.  This made it fun to compare notes on the different builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ampgrid.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5237\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ampgrid.jpg 960w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ampgrid-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ampgrid-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The race on Saturday was wet and challenging with varying traction.  I even had a failure of the windshield wiper when the driver side wiper came loose. A quick pit stop to tighten the bolt got it going again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave had some excitement with a spin on the fastest part of the track.   <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/v-gpVyNFoSc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/v-gpVyNFoSc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday was drier and we had picked up speed.  However,  the alternator bracket broke again and it took me fifteen minutes to swap it out for a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom took over for the second stint.  His stint was cut short when the low oil pressure light came on.  I could not find the problem so we loaded up and headed home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, we pulled it apart and found the oil pick up tube was broken.  An inspection of the rod bearings shows that we have avoided a major failure.  Looks like fresh rod bearings will have it back ready to race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I began looking to see what could be causing so many things to vibrate apart in the last two races.  I found that one of the balance shafts was off a couple of teeth. I must have put it back wrong when I had to do a last-minute water pump swap before the Road Atlanta race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"457\" height=\"609\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/oilpickup.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/oilpickup.jpg 457w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/oilpickup-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I plan to have the replacement rod bearings coated with Calico coatings to give them just a little bit more p protection agist oil starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We raced at our favorite local track Atlanta Motorsports Park. We were pitted next to three other 944s. This made it fun to compare notes on the different builds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5242,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}