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Re: UPDATE

To: richard jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>, land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: UPDATE
From: richard jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:51:22 -0700 (PDT)
This letter took so long getting posted (I guess because of the
attachment that died along the way) that you guys have already answered
most of the stuff.

Thanks

Dick J

--- richard jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> My first taste of LSR (sort of) was when my dad took
> me for a 150 mph
> blast on the Daytona sand in his new 1957 Chrysler
> 300C.  Since then my
> dream has been to drive on the salt at Bonneville. 
> After 40+ years of
> hydroplane racing, hot rod drag racing, motorcycle
> road racing and
> motorcycle drag racing, my second taste of LSR was
> in a very slow but
> very fun "G" coupe at Maxton.  Now I have the fever
> bad, and my Chief
> Financial Officer and Team Manager has given me
> approval (and her
> blessings) to build a "real" LSR car.  I know it
> would be easy to go
> out on the local used car lots and buy an already
> hot-rodded, low rider
> pickup or something and convert it with just a
> little effort, but this
> is my once-in-a-lifetime-chance, and I really want
> to do it with a
> "real, hemi-powered" race car.  I've started putting
> together plans,
> and some parts, and that's where I would like all
> the input you guys
> care to give me.  
> 
> I have a 354 hemi (I have now learned class "C" not
> "XXO"), a Chev S-10
> frame, a lot of ideas, and a line on a 1948 Renault
> Model 1062/4-CV
> body - all of which I hope adds up to a C/GCC.  The
> 4-CV is a little
> bigger than a '40s Fiat, and a little smaller than a
> '40s Anglia. 
> (Look at the attach. and you will get an idea of
> what I plan.)
> 
> I want to mount the hemi back as far as I can and
> still have room to
> sit relatively comfortably in front of the rear
> axle, which should be
> with the crankshaft pully about 26" - 30" behind the
> front axle line. 
> The S-10 wheelbase is about 105" so I think that
> engine placement is
> OK.
> 
> I then want to take the 4-CV body, chop the top
> about six inches
> (leaving about 5 1/2 - 6 inches of vert windshild,
> remove the rear
> fenders, and mount it over the rear of the frame
> with the originial
> Renault wheel location centered over the S-10 axle.
> 
> I then want to take the front clip of the body,
> mount it centered over
> the new front wheel location, and build sheetmetal
> panels to connect
> the front end to the back end.  The stretch looks
> like it will end up
> around 18" to 20" in front of the fire wall.
> 
> I plan on fabricating a belly pan, and using a roof
> hatch for primary
> entry-exit.
> 
> I guess the car will technically be a modified
> Renault. The Renault was
> originally a rear engine vehicle, and will now be a
> front engine.  Does
> that present any class-qualifying problems?  Does my
> overall plan sound
> like a sound route to building a "household budget
> based" C/GCC? 
> 
> Any advice you can give will certainly be
> appreciated.  I want to be
> sure to invest my Team Manager's money wisely, or
> she may stop cooking
> dinner and other things that I enjoy.
> 
> [ Mostrously long attachment chucked intot he bit
> bucket.   mjb.]
> 



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