- 81. Re: drag behind a car (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 07:38:18 -0500
- I think spoilers turn the area above the deck lid from negative pressure to positive pressure so lift turns into down force . Maybe it also moves the center of pressure back .
- /html/land-speed/2005-11/msg00105.html (7,411 bytes)
- 82. Fun (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:02:53 -0500
- Had fun playing with the english wheel today . The most recent body panels for the streamliner that I picked up from my C minus aluminum man made needed help and I got them looking passable . Decided
- /html/land-speed/2005-11/msg00167.html (7,417 bytes)
- 83. Poster (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:37:42 -0500
- I saw an ad for posters Joe Lingrey is selling with a montage of El Mirage photos he took in about 1949 . It says his email address is jlingrey@adelphia.net John Burk
- /html/land-speed/2005-11/msg00188.html (6,226 bytes)
- 84. Fw: What kind of helmet? (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:22:03 -0500
- A SAM Jim Waldron asked So, what do you wear in a mototcycle streamliner? M because it's a motorcycle, or SA because you are inside a roll cage ?
- /html/land-speed/2005-11/msg00222.html (6,505 bytes)
- 85. Premonition ? (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 01:35:52 -0400
- Did Malcolm Pittwood and the British electric streamliner people use a crystal ball when they chose Nevada asphalt for their runs this year . John Burk
- /html/land-speed/2005-10/msg00028.html (6,279 bytes)
- 86. 1906 Lakester (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:21:59 -0400
- This week's Old Cars Weekly had a picture of the Stanley Brothers 1906/7 Dewar Trophy "lakester" . With the skinny tires and the 3 foot wide <==> shaped body it looks as slippery as any modern lakest
- /html/land-speed/2005-10/msg00146.html (6,742 bytes)
- 87. Re: Aluminum Trailers (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:54:11 -0400
- Race trailers are grossly heavy because they lack triangulation . One of the axels is there just to carry all the poorly utilized steel . Our trailers weigh more than the race cars they carry . An 18
- /html/land-speed/2005-10/msg00194.html (7,383 bytes)
- 88. Emails (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:49:44 -0400
- My very next email after Dan Wright's views of the flooded salt flats was from Travelocity . The subject line went "A couple of good reasons to fly to Salt Lake City" .
- /html/land-speed/2005-10/msg00198.html (6,237 bytes)
- 89. There's somthing wrong here (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:19:49 -0400
- Kerosene for heating the garage costs more than what I used to pay for nitro John Burk
- /html/land-speed/2005-10/msg00252.html (7,399 bytes)
- 90. Re: There's something wrong here (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:40:49 -0400
- When a barrel of oil (43 gal.) goes from $20 to $65 that's an increase of $1.05 a gal . The rest happens after it comes ashore . When fuel prices go up several things will happen: We'll use less They
- /html/land-speed/2005-10/msg00291.html (7,843 bytes)
- 91. Re: Parachutes and the box they come in (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 18:41:41 -0400
- I may have mentioned this before but my project has a handle a couple of inches below the steering wheel that when pulled opens the high speed chute and shuts off the fuel and the ignition . A flick
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00121.html (6,965 bytes)
- 92. Re: Parachutes and the box they come in (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:03:06 -0400
- Somebody maybe Mackican & Schultz have 3 shutes , all high speed . Hard to make a mistake . John Burk joyseydevil@comcast.net
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00122.html (6,876 bytes)
- 93. Re: Water Brake (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:58:18 -0400
- I like Joe Law's dyno . He borrowed somebody's absorption unit and machined a copy out of aluminum blocks . He mounts the home made unit in place of the rear and does his pulls with the engine in the
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00170.html (7,371 bytes)
- 94. 2.29 R&P (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:17:46 -0400
- There is a 10 bolt 2.29 ring and pinion listed on ebay . Item # 7999895817 , bidding ends 11:00 am today (sat) .
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00177.html (6,273 bytes)
- 95. Re: Chassis Cushion? (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:20:17 -0400
- With the chassis lightly resting on wooden blocks towing puts no more vertical stress on things than if the car was in the garage . Does anybody tow their cars with the wheels raised so the wheel bea
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00277.html (8,279 bytes)
- 96. Re: Chassis Cushion? (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:27:51 -0400
- G forces don't fatigue face cars , flexing does . solid
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00280.html (7,879 bytes)
- 97. Re: Chassis Cushion? (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:17:03 -0400
- With my dragster the heaviest part was the engine so that's where I supported it . Worked good with quite a few tow miles . With the streamliner maybe I'll do the same . As to the personal insults ,
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00284.html (7,962 bytes)
- 98. Salt (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:29:13 -0400
- 45 years ago the Utah highway dept. groomed the salt by draging 40 ft lengths of railroad track behind pickup trucks . No doubt the i beam drags we use now do a better job on normal salt . Does anybo
- /html/land-speed/2005-08/msg00158.html (7,321 bytes)
- 99. Re: Drill Doctor (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:47:06 -0400
- The place I worked had that policy . Some of our less thrifty people would periodicly empty their drill indexes in the scrap metal barrel (half never used) and refill with new ones . I was like a kid
- /html/land-speed/2005-08/msg00206.html (6,944 bytes)
- 100. Re: Converting halon systems (score: 1)
- Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:31:22 -0400
- On my car I switched the bottles to pull with a cable operated wedge that moves across the bottle . I did it because the drivers knee comes so close to the knob when he climbs out . John Burk joysey
- /html/land-speed/2005-07/msg00043.html (6,666 bytes)
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