- 141. RE: HotRod (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 08:10:09 -0600
- Howdy, Hey, did it hit the magazine stands yet? ( gee can you tell I don't have a subscription? shhh!) John Robinson, Mechanician Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin 1513 University Ave. M
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00198.html (7,674 bytes)
- 142. Re: Bonneville Coverage (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:04:27 -0600
- I just got a copy of dec HotRod, what happened to some of the streamliners pictured there? Shadoff Spl? the K&L? Polliwog? Herda Cagle & Knapp? just wonderin.... John Robinson, Mechanician Mechanica
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00635.html (8,170 bytes)
- 143. Re: Bonneville Coverage (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:28:36 -0600
- thanks for the info on these old icons, I was just wondering what happens to some of the old cars out there, I know my Dodge Colt will probably be cut apart then crushed when I'm done with it, no ro
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00644.html (8,594 bytes)
- 144. Re: Cold Intake (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:54:47 -0600
- Also be careful of getting it cold enough to freeze any moisture in the air in the intercooler passages, tends to make it very limited on air flows when the engine side of the intercooler is plugged
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00875.html (9,318 bytes)
- 145. Re: Cold Intake (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:32:21 -0600
- Howdy, here at the UW Mech Engr dept, we have a ford Contour engine on a dyno that the kids run. As part of the class the kids get to design an experiment of their own, and one of them came up with c
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00955.html (11,013 bytes)
- 146. Re: Cold Intake (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:33:11 -0600
- yeah seemed to work OK, ( now this is several years later) I think we got an increase of 11% more HP at the rpm they were running, 110 hp@3200 or there abouts.....I no longer have the paper at hand,
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00960.html (10,333 bytes)
- 147. RE: Cold Intake (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:21:10 -0600
- doesn't lowering your fuel temps help lower the air/fuel mix temps by cooling the air faster from the refrigeration effects of liquid fuel changing to a vapor? (ummm there must be a more scientific d
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg00972.html (9,075 bytes)
- 148. RE: Recips Tale (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:40:15 -0600
- just this summer I was standing in my back yard as "Aluminium Overcast" the restored B-17 flew out of our airport, he was at around 500 ft going directly over head, what a GREAT sound that was, broug
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg01018.html (8,765 bytes)
- 149. Re: Re[2]: Tire reliabilty, and traction control (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:53:17 -0600
- nah, we used balloons tied to the rear fender support. tie the balloon on both ends and twist it under the fender stay to hold it against the spokes, then race against the other kids and when your ba
- /html/land-speed/2001-11/msg01084.html (10,331 bytes)
- 150. Re: variety of classes (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:28:40 -0500
- Howdy, H/GS , APS/PG 500 , possibly another HCC/G that has a smaller body frontal area John Robinson, Mechanician Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin 1513 University Ave. Madison, Wi. 5370
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00101.html (8,278 bytes)
- 151. Re: Cycle World Article (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 07:27:43 -0500
- hey Jon, thanks for the heads up on the article! I think the writer is the same guy that ran over my truck bed cover I had setting on the 'Salt in front of my pits....I think he shoulda included my
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00178.html (8,732 bytes)
- 152. Re: Varity of Classes (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 07:49:43 -0500
- I would rather not have any classes cut, ifn somebody wants to run in an empty class, so be it, I run against myself, in H/GCC nothing fancy thats fer sure, but I'm out there trying. if the rule boo
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00180.html (9,944 bytes)
- 153. Re: Cycle World Article (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:21:27 -0500
- thanks again Joe... John Robinson, Mechanician Mechanical Engineering University of Wisconsin 1513 University Ave. Madison, Wi. 53706 608-262-3606 FAX 608-265-2316 Current World Land Speed Record Hol
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00191.html (9,835 bytes)
- 154. Re: varity of classes (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 07:34:38 -0500
- Glen Of course you know I'm joking. Without you guys, I don't think the sport would exist. That brings up something else that has been bothering me. I do feel guilty when I'm at the salt because it s
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00281.html (9,838 bytes)
- 155. Re: Fw: varity of classes (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:07:40 -0500
- A comp van class? hey I could run my subaru 360 van in it.....'bout 40 inches wide, chopped down to 30 inches tall......hey, great, when can we ? John Robinson, Mechanician Mechanical Engineering Uni
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00297.html (9,450 bytes)
- 156. Re: Fw: varity of classes (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:41:03 -0500
- well, I am partial to the chrome girly silhouettes on the mudflaps... an I was thinking of the "woody" panels made outa shelf paper......and with my high school tassel hanging from the mirror.... fra
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00303.html (9,452 bytes)
- 157. Re: Fw: Rear suspension (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:46:16 -0600
- I run a short wheel base Dodge Colt, solid suspension, and it is a rough ride @ 144MPH. I always thought that a small amount of compliance would help, something on the order of an inch or so. And am
- /html/land-speed/2001-10/msg00676.html (9,498 bytes)
- 158. Re: Chute lines... (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:22:53 -0500
- back in 85 and 86, I was real interested in skydiving, and built a parachute testing rig with data acquisition . load cells on the risers, and a pressure transducer for altitude. got a bunch of data
- /html/land-speed/2001-09/msg00067.html (8,247 bytes)
- 159. spline shaft query (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 10:04:15 -0500
- I just picked up a 200 hp water brake dyno, used for testing Allison M-18 reduction gear boxes. It appears to be in good condition, however, it needs an external splined shaft to mate with the test
- /html/land-speed/2001-09/msg00125.html (7,557 bytes)
- 160. Re: LSR in Hot Rod (score: 1)
- Author: john robinson <john@engr.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 09:51:13 -0500
- 145 and change, 1983-84? somebody took a Lear steam turbine (Lear was experimenting with a heat transfer fluid called, yeah learium and had built a steam turbine engine package for the San Francisco
- /html/land-speed/2001-09/msg00156.html (10,029 bytes)
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