- 1. Re: Internal Engine Block Painting (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:08:01 -0500
- Try Glyptal G3415, a light grey enamel. Many engine builders swear by it. It has high heat resistance, high oil resistance as well as good insulating properties. John Thornton
- /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00342.html (8,482 bytes)
- 2. Re: Engine Assembly Lube (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:25:28 -0500
- MPZ assembly lube is a great product. Make sure you get the thicker HP version if you do not intend to fire the engine within 5 days of assembly. If you intend to fire it up within that time frame yo
- /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00414.html (8,276 bytes)
- 3. Technical question, not strictly LSR related (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:18:22 -0500
- Has anyone ever installed fuel injector boss' in a head rather than the intake I don't mean to inject directly into the combustion chamber but rather in the intake port on a head with a particularly
- /html/land-speed/2006-09/msg00134.html (7,500 bytes)
- 4. (Fwd) RE: Technical question, not strictly LSR related (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:05:09 -0500
- Thanks for the replies. You guys answered my question for me. Pretty quickly too. I never did find the info I needed via Google search but a few list members gave me specific enough info to narrow my
- /html/land-speed/2006-09/msg00155.html (6,903 bytes)
- 5. Re: F1 (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:01:22 -0500
- In overall bhp or bhp per litre? This just shows that each car is built to do something different. I don't think a NHRA Pro/Stock has to hold together for anywhere near the number of hours that an F1
- /html/land-speed/2006-07/msg00437.html (7,849 bytes)
- 6. Re: First lakester? (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:19:28 -0500
- Bears more than a passing resemblance to Millers 1916 Golden Submarine to me. John Thornton -- NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the national Security Agency may have read this email with
- /html/land-speed/2006-07/msg00470.html (7,433 bytes)
- 7. Re: Freeing Stuck Pistons - - with Iodine? (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:12:34 -0500
- Stuck as in rusted or stuck for some other reason? If rusted I have never had Marvel Mystery Oil fail to loosen a stuck piston regardless of how long it had been rusted. That hardly guaranteed I coul
- /html/land-speed/2006-04/msg00191.html (7,757 bytes)
- 8. Intake valves (Not strictly LSR) (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:01:15 -0500
- Hey all I am looking for some information and since this list is populated by individuals with much better than average IC engine knowledge I thought I'd ask here. I am looking for a company that mak
- /html/land-speed/2006-04/msg00270.html (7,629 bytes)
- 9. (Fwd) RE: Fastest Injun?? (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:00:54 -0600
- You guys might want to change this subject line back to Indian rather than That's a very ugly racist term. Also please spare me any wailing about the onerous burden of being PC. Send such garbage to
- /html/land-speed/2006-02/msg00104.html (6,786 bytes)
- 10. Re: History most SCTA racers don't know (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:37:52 -0600
- In February 1957 a chimpanzee rocketed down the track, now 5,000 feet long, braked to a stop, and survived a load of some 247 g for .01 sec, with a rate of onset of 16,000 g per second. Captain Eli L
- /html/land-speed/2006-01/msg00178.html (10,212 bytes)
- 11. RE: Safety glasses (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:24:03 -0600
- Because before this study everyone already knew that rather than having a depressive effect, alcohol was actually stimulating the nucleus accumbens. It was just part of the common knowledge of humani
- /html/land-speed/2006-01/msg00350.html (7,410 bytes)
- 12. Re: Big Displacment Cars on the Salt (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:41:40 -0600
- The reference I have to that vehicle is that it was a Fiat S.76 300 HP Record car. It had a displacement of 28,338cc with a bore and stroke of 190 x 250mm. Not a huge displacement discrepency, only 1
- /html/land-speed/2005-11/msg00103.html (7,647 bytes)
- 13. Re: OT cost of gas rant (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:58:02 -0500
- Huh? You think the average Joe driving down the highway is operating at over 9/10ths? Most people are barely paying attention to their driving. How could they drive at 9/10ths and barely pay attentio
- /html/land-speed/2005-09/msg00074.html (7,892 bytes)
- 14. Re: Michelin Tweel (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:23:52 -0500
- The promise of no more flats is a pretty powerful inducement for Bubba and anyone else. It does look like it might howl at high rotation speeds (one article mentioned the spokes vibrate audibly) but
- /html/land-speed/2005-05/msg00024.html (8,578 bytes)
- 15. RE: Fuel Injection Question (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 13:07:25 -0500
- It generally is. This gives the atomized fuel less time to form larger droplets or coat the walls of the intake. It also serves to cool the intake valve which usually has less provision for cooling t
- /html/land-speed/2005-05/msg00258.html (9,516 bytes)
- 16. Re: Cooling and Water Pumps --- Again (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:23:32 -0600
- 8:34 -0600 I believe the data you want is in "The Design & Tuning of Competition Engines" by Smith and the SAE book "Design of Racing & High Performance Engines". I am not where I can access my books
- /html/land-speed/2005-03/msg00179.html (7,810 bytes)
- 17. Re: Non-LSR Bead roller mods (score: 1)
- Author: jthorn65@sbcglobal.net
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:31:45 -0600
- Conversion kits are available. It's 110 volt motor that has about a 325 to 350 to 1 reduction and probably pulls 10 amps. You could probably make one yourself for much less. http://www.irvansmith.com
- /html/land-speed/2005-03/msg00368.html (7,569 bytes)
- 18. Re: [Land-speed] NON LSR--A BARN FULL (score: 1)
- Author: John Thornton <jthorn65@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:33:22 -0600
- The magazine Sports Car Market apparently wrote a story about this "find" recently. It isn't a find at all. The cars have been in the same owners hands for years and the photos were recently taken by
- /html/land-speed/2007-08/msg00003.html (8,119 bytes)
- 19. Re: [Land-speed] Steve Fosset Missing (score: 1)
- Author: John Thornton <jthorn65@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:40:04 -0600
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- /html/land-speed/2007-09/msg00201.html (8,325 bytes)
- 20. Re: [Land-speed] NON LSR---Border Rant re-ranted (score: 1)
- Author: John Thornton <jthorn65@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:00:11 -0600
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- /html/land-speed/2007-09/msg00378.html (9,002 bytes)
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