Thanks Joe.... the T-shirts were a No Brainer.... Jon did all the work.. I
just picked them up...
Dave's ability to Tune a Car and to set up a car is truely amazing... his
engine management skills speak for themselfs... I am lucky enough to have
him helping my nappy butt out.... When we talk about Acheivements in
Motorsports.... I don't think there are many folks out there that have done
what he has... He doesn't brag about it... it's simply a Fact.... from
Nascar to Le Mans to 3 wins at Daytona... the guy has just been involved in
Many Many Engine Programs....
Let alone all of John Goodmans success... at Bonneville and Lake Gairdner...
( yeah Dave was on that first trip down under )....
Thanks again Dave... Don't mean to blow your Horn... but this deal with
Computers simply doesn't allow folks to understand who they are talking
to....or what their abilities are...
did I mention Mike in the Salt Shark got in the Two club at Bville with
another one of Dave's Slide throttle and engine Management systems...
awesome Data aquisition system also.... now to come up with the Money for
all Dave's changes to my Hot Rod
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Amo" <jkamo@rapidnet.com>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Bville Tune up
> Keith, I truly appreciate you sharing the info on your endeavor, I soak
all this
> stuff up, big time.
>
> Everyone needs to know also how much myself and Team Amo respects Mr.
Keith Turk
> and his endless generosity and true compassion for fellow racers. His
help and
> energy are truly not containable and facilitate his ability to assist
others,
> whether it be by offering his nitrous supply to us, hooking us up with
another
> team with assets that helped us, by making the "Salt Talks and its shirts
> happen, by handling both the logistics and the financial end of it, by
assisting
> Jon at Landracing.com by whatever means possible, or by sharing his
passion
> here on the net, Keith's sharing of Mr. Dahlgrens expertise is very, very
> important to me, those of us trying to make things go fast know and deeply
> understand how rare a find Mr. Dahlgrens depth of knowledge about fuel and
> ignition system dynamics is. I for one hope that Mr. Dahlgren finds the
time
> and desire to throw some tidbits our way on the list, and understand that
for
> some of us our ignorance CAN be rectified.
>
> Joe Amo
>
> Keith Turk wrote:
>
> > Said I would share my experiences.. on the Tune up... sure wish more
folks
> > would do this... It would help us all.
> >
> > We started out with a Holley 4150 reworked by BG... it has anular
discharge
> > nozzels and basically is kinda sporty.. the Jets out of the Box were
82's
> > square ( in all four corners ) and we were running 7.5 pounds of fuel
> > Pressure from a BG 280.... We changed the Jets several times uping the
Fuel
> > each time.... ended up with 89's in the Front and 91's in the back....
and
> > upped the fuel pressure to 8.5 lbs...This is about what we did last
year...
> > continuously increasing Jets until we had EGT's that were in the 1450
> > range....never did get the Fuel set correctly... When the Nitrous came
on we
> > did in fact drop EGT's as it's supposed to.... but for some reason
Bville
> > Just Takes a TON of Jets for us...
> >
> > Dave Pointed out several Problem areas in our Fuel system and I am going
to
> > correct them before the next race.... seems our marginal 3.5 gallon fuel
> > cell was mounted in front of the radiator and is getting Heat Soaked
causing
> > our fuel to heat up and vapor lock to some degree. we also don't have a
> > bypassing regulator which would allow the fuel to circulate back to the
cell
> > thereby cooling the fuel. There are a couple of other issues dealing
with
> > the quality of the seperate fuel system for the Nitrous and we need to
up
> > grade it also.
> >
> > The reason I am sharing so much of this basically comes down to what you
buy
> > out of the box.... when your building a car it's often more expensive to
buy
> > the Cheapest components and then up grade them later... if I had got the
> > best up front I wouldn't be having all these problems... what I am
trying to
> > say is it's often Very Expensive to be CHEAP....
> >
> > I also didn't have a complete selection of Jets for the Nitrous... this
> > ended up being Fatal to the engine... Jets are less then 5 bucks apiece
and
> > I simply didn't get them ordered... again not having the right size cost
> > more then money it was the opportunity to set a record....
> >
> > Keith ( Why Yes I am trying to stir up some discussions on anything as
It's
> > hot outside and I am still cleaning the salt off my life.... trips
inside to
> > cool off and relax are BORING without someone else sharing thier
> > experiences)
>
>
>
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