An Amazing Story

[Master Oil Racing Team]

........we watched the Unlimiteds race their way to the finals.

[Master Oil Racing Team]

The trophy for the Unlimiteds was on display at the podium. It had some fine lines. It was hard to pass by without stopping to admire the beautiful sculpting.

[ronus747]

Hell Wayne, I was there and you've got me all goose bumply again...
Keep it coming

How's Andrew doing ???

[Master Oil Racing Team]

......just a couple of days hanging out at the hospital. Seems like there were a couple of other cases. One girl the grade below him went in with the same symptoms, got released the next day then went back with it worse a couple of days later. Their white blood cells had gone up half again what normal was and acute abdominal pain, but the CAT scans were iffy. After everything turned back to normal, they were both released.

Our football team is going to the regionals tommorrow to play at the Alamodome so we're getting ready to head out for that. More on the story in a day or so.

[Master Oil Racing Team]

One of the things D Konigs did was move a lot of volume of air and fuel with the given displacement and the RPM's we were turning. It had been more of a problem than with the smaller bore engines. When you pop the cap of a fuel tank on a D Konig it would go POOOMPH! Then you would see an atomized fog of air and fuel swirling around inside. There was a serious problem with the Konig style carbs when dealing with this kind of internal pressures.

We went back and forth over the years between the standard Konig system with a crankcase pressurized fuel system pumping into the fuel tank through a checkvalve versus electric fuel pumps. Either system had to deliver massive amounts of fuel to keep these D's pumping out the horsepower. And that was another consideration.

The Europeans were used to running longer distances and were therefore more in tune with fuel requirements. The race at Dayton was more top speed and which means more fuel use than European racing, but we were running 20% further than our standard races in America. We needed 5 gallon tanks to go the distance. Actually I think we went to a 6 gallon tank, because we were getting only a little better than 1 mile per gallon of methanol.

The primary weak link were the carbuerator floats. Regardless of which system you went with, the fuel regulators were ultimately the floats, and in the D's there was a lot of pressure involved.

The first post is part of my test sheet D-16 indicating a float problem. The sheet after that was D-17 I had posted previously with the rotary valve housing stain on it. If you look back you will note we had worked on that problem.

The next pic is Tim working on adjusting his check valve. It was just a simple check valve with a brass tube coming off the side with a spring and ball bearing to relieve some pressure.

[Ron Hill]

Marcel Belleville told me he blew in the wrong line of his Konig tank at Valleyfield, and when he pulled the line out of his mouth, the alcohol fuel squirted into his eye. He raced the next heat, but later went to the doctor. The Canadian doctor, gave him something for his eye, and it was was not the right right stuff... Burned his eye out. That is why Marcel only has one eye...


Some how, Wayne, I've known all a long that you had some pictures like that one above, nice trophy.....for sure!!!!

[Master Oil Racing Team]

I never knew that's what happened to Marcel's eye. Man, I don't see how he could have driven after a shot in the eye like that. The methanol sucks up all the water, then you have to open your eye for it to evaporate. What pain. I guess it would soak into the tissue though if you kept your eye shut. It happened to him then before I met him, because I always knew Marcel to have only one eye.

And on the previous photo Ron..... The editor of Motorsport told me to always keep an eye out for such subjects He said it helped sell magazines. I don't know one way or another, but it just became a habit after that.