Daimler V8 powered Racing Midget in Australia (NOT MG)

[BMC]

While searching through the Daimler forums, I found this and thought this might be interesting to the BritishV8 group!

http://www.dlcentre.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6762

[roverman]

Long ago, in Gardena, Ca.,(Ascot), raced Daimler V8 powered midget. I read of this in Hot Rod mag.  Story made more interesting by the owner/designer, who developed a very early version of CAD and FEA(?), to design the chassis/suspension. According to the article, the car was very competitive, with little tweaking required.  Onward, roverman.

[Preform Resources]

Kinda looks like a copy of an old Kurtis Kraft chassis,,, but is that a DeDION rear?  interesting.
Dave

Guess I shoulda clicked on the link....................................

[fredeuce]

Hi folks I have just joined this forum and one of the posters referred to this post in my intro.

Yes this is my car and yes there is a more extensive post over on the Daimler forum.

One of the reasons for posting is to tap into the collective knowledge on here about things automotive and British.

Presently I am trying to calibrate my Smiths RVI1000/00 tacho to 8 cylinder functioning. This particular tacho as best i understand it was originally for a 4 cyl engine. It does have a potentiometer in the back of it to adjust it however it does not have sufficient adjustment.the max resistance was approx 8K Ohms.
I fitted a 100k Ohm pot . On testing it was apparent that I had to wind it back to 0 Ohms to get best readings even though it was still out. It read 25-30% too fast.
Something that has occurred now is that when simply turning on the ignition to power up everything but before cranking to start the tacho immediately produces a full scaled deflection.

What is going on here? I am thinking the 100k pot was incorrectly connected and cause some other damage . Any one with any clues on this? I am tempted to convert it to RVC with one of those rebuild kits that some folk now produce for these old tachos.

Any clues or tips most appreciated.

[dz8190]

Wow, very cool.  I race a Daimler SP with the same motor, but really built to race by Huffaker.