Mark F.'s 10S mono & Bill's gas Cat

[properchopper]

Tony forgot to mention the concrete rip-rap walls. Great fun.

Actually I blocked the memory of those, likely because practicing the evening before the OPC race I ran my TS-2 into one of the walls and turned a sponson into what looked like an exploded croissant [ After an all-night bout with Mr. Bondo, the next day I took 1st in OPC class ]

[Bill-SOCAL]

And mystery solved. I had a small crack in one of the water lines (from the head cooling jacket to the cooling on the exhaust flange), just enough to allow the motor to overheat and lost the ring which toasted the motor!!

And I had just checked that the day before. But things get bumped and it must have been bent and there you go. New head, piston, ring, crank, etc. and it wll be as good as new. But now I do not have a back up motor for the 4-day race in Vegas this coming weekend!!

[properchopper]

Just put a spare exhaust pipe & sound generator on the FE Twin