Joe
I did the accident report on Woodens car. During the investigation a lot of
things came up. They are included in the report and as you know we do not
publish these due to the legal end of things. I talked to Earl on the phone
for some time the other night and the tires were 1/2 years old. They did
have prior runs on them.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Timney" <joetimney@dol.net>
To: "Land-speed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:25 PM
Subject: Wooden's Tires
> List,
> John Beckett and I got to look over Earl's car with Jim Miller and a
> couple of things stood out. The drive train is off-set to the right and
> he blistered a right rear tire the day before. The car had a lot on lead
> mounted in front of the rear. He was running Goodyear Landspeed
> tires...brand new!!! There were chunks off the center. Earl was
> traveling at 288 out of the four mile...obviously that tire was loaded
> and probably spinning...I'd like to see a data acquisition readout on
> that run. One can not expect to see any tire take that kind of abuse. I
> have seen drag slicks spin in the lights and get a slight
> blister...guess what...they either fail soon after that or they change
> circumference, then fail!
>
> I wonder out loud if Keith's tire circumference issue was also a
> heat/spin/load relationship???
>
> I'd also like to publicly thank Jim Miller for the opportunity to "learn
> for the remains". Looking at how the structure held up and bent, taught
> me a couple of "must do's" when designing future projects.
>
> joe
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