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Re: What's It All Mean

To: "tim schoeny" <tschoen@fuse.net>, <ardunbill@webtv.net>
Subject: Re: What's It All Mean
From: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:33:28 -0800
List
It's how much nitro one wants to use to make barn doors go fast. Emmons went
over 300  with a un-blown nitro burning mod.roadster.
Glen (watching the list)
----- Original Message -----
From: "tim schoeny" <tschoen@fuse.net>
To: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: What's It All Mean


> The roadster thing is a bit of an anomaly-you'd expect mod. R's to be
noticeably
> faster than their blunt nosed brothers.Guess the gas roadster guys got
some real
> serious HP and/or have figured out how to make barn doors fly!Don't know?
>                                                               Tim
>
> ardunbill@webtv.net wrote:
>
> > List, sorry, disregard my last message.
> >
> > I expressed to Tim that from his data it jumped out at me that (blunt
> > nose) roadsters showed an advantage over (sharp nose) modified
> > roadsters.  This goes against my assumptions.  Could the roadsters all
> > have more power?  Maybe some modified roadster people will comment.
> > Cheers, Ardun Bill

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