Welcome to January 2017,
Fossa Ford Anglia’s year started with a “new” Frankenstein engine installed 1 January ….
Selecting the top of our available parts, like selecting the top leaves for some special tea, we assembly a nice smooth engine for Fossa with our new BuddPower.com tappet cover and some new idea’s implemented.
Fossa’s spare engine fitted
Before the installation I comply with a new rule of the MSA. All drivers over the age of 50 have to “pass” a stress ECG test. Not a regular visitor to any kind of doctor or related facility, the fact that I have to do this strange thing causes me STRESS. On the 30th of December I walk the treadmill. Firstly it is started at a slower speed and two minutes or so in the nurse press the accelerator and we speed up. Some nice scenery would have been cool. I inspect every wall and corner in front of me. Ten minutes into the brisk walk the nurse lean forward and reduce the speed of of machine, I expected an acceleration and prepare for a similar increase in speed as before. The machine comes to halt and I am still walking, already changed up a gear. for a brief moment I must have generated a few kilowatt feeding back into the system ….
Have I passed? Define passed. MSA is closed until the 9th. I have been looking at the results and wondered and Google’d …. “The age-predicted maximum heart rate is a useful measurement for safety purposes and for estimating the adequacy of the stress to evoke inducible ischemia. A patient who reaches 80% of the age-predicted maximum is considered to have a good test result, and an age-predicted maximum of 90% or better is considered excellent.” Do I accept that I have passed and renew my club membership and enter the 2017 Passion for Speed at early bird reduced price? If my results are not accepted, water down the drain? Waiting for feedback.
What happens if I do not pass? Well I will have a nice track car. Fossa will be roadworthied and we will have another road car labeled with stickers of her proud history. The Roach will get his MSA license and continue the “new tradition”.
We are considering taking Fossa to Super Track day at Zwartkops on the 22nd to give her “new” engine a run-in.
If all goes well, we will probably see you at the Passion for Speed, 28/29 January at Zwartkops Raceway!
Greetings, 😉