X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from [64.12.137.4] (HELO imo-m23.mail.aol.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 1155121 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:27:26 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=64.12.137.4; envelope-from=Lehanover@aol.com Received: from Lehanover@aol.com by imo-m23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id q.4d3.13b09f1 (16930) for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:26:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Lehanover@aol.com Message-ID: <4d3.13b09f1.31c2579e@aol.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:26:38 EDT Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Renesis Crank Angle Sensor To: flyrotary@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1150352798" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5319 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1150352798 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/14/2006 1:31:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bhughes@qnsi.net writes: Lynn, If an extra wheel was run off the alternator or water pump pulley what would happen if the belt slipped? Bobby If the belt slipped? It's a toothed belt. !/2" pitch 1 inch wide. Or, whatever you want. At one inch it's the same belt as most cam drive sets found on modern engines. Replaced at about 80,000 miles in a more stressful situation. How many cam belts have you lost? I never lost one in 10 years of racing Fiats. Anyway, it would loose any timing feature you were running off of it. One tooth and the engine would loose some power. Two teeth and way more power. Three teeth and it would probably shut down. We used a 1/2" by 1/2 inch pitch to run the water pump. Never lost a belt. But this is a backup source for injection timing, right. It's a never need it unless hell freezes over but you can still keep going if you need it. We had Cosworth engines that ran the injection pumps and the injection distributor block with 3/8" by 1/4" pitch belts. Never a problem. Some older race engine ran the high voltage distributor with a belt from a cam pulley. So, you could have two complete systems using the "A" and "B" controllers with two triggering sources. Lynn E. Hanover -------------------------------1150352798 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 6/14/2006 1:31:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,=20 bhughes@qnsi.net writes:

<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000=20 size=3D2>Lynn,

If an extra wheel was run off the alternator or wate= r pump=20 pulley what
would happen if the belt slipped?

Bobby=20

If the belt slipped?

It's a toothed belt. !/2" pitch 1 inch wide. Or, whatever you want. At=20= one=20 inch it's the same belt as most cam drive sets found on modern engines. Repl= aced=20 at about 80,000 miles in a more stressful situation. How many cam belts have= you=20 lost? I never lost one in 10 years of racing Fiats.

Anyway, it would loose any timing feature you were running off of it. O= ne=20 tooth and the engine would loose some power. Two teeth and way more power. T= hree=20 teeth and it would probably shut down. We used a 1/2" by 1/2 inch pitch to r= un=20 the water pump. Never lost a belt. But this is a backup source for injection= =20 timing, right. It's a never need it unless hell freezes over but you ca= n=20 still keep going if you need it. We had Cosworth engines that ran the inject= ion=20 pumps and the injection distributor block with 3/8" by 1/4" pitch belts. Nev= er a=20 problem.

Some older race engine ran the high voltage distributor with a belt fro= m a=20 cam pulley.

So, you could have two complete systems using the "A" and "B" controlle= rs=20 with two triggering sources.

Lynn E. Hanover

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