- 21. Re: Engine Air Inlets - definite improvement (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:04:55 -0400
- I'm no expert, but could it be that you need more fuel because the engine is getting additional air via a ram air effect? A 490 Cu in engine at 7500 RPM needs about 1060 CFM of air (assuming no pump
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00117.html (9,210 bytes)
- 22. Re: Engine Air Inlets - definite improvement (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 21:05:24 -0400
- Yikes. No way for 28 lbs of boost. Must be conversion process for ram air to psi. I'll go back to stuff I know. Thanks, Jim W. running
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00121.html (7,789 bytes)
- 23. Chrome Moly steel vs. Stainless steel (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:01:38 -0400
- Well, I just walked out to garage where I've got a known piece of 4130 Chrome Molly tube (still has the numbers on it from the distributor, cut a lot slower than mild steel too. Could be wrongly mark
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00152.html (8,283 bytes)
- 24. RE: Protecting the brain (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:42:22 -0400
- One of the 'off the wall' tests we used to do on new electronic devices that came to us was to simply hold my 5 watt walkietalkie over it and transmit. It was amazing the number of devices that just
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00289.html (8,698 bytes)
- 25. RE: Center of pressure? (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:46:22 -0400
- Would a fin actually move the CP when the car was running straight? Or do they only change the CP should the car get a little sideways? (Which, of course, is the point) Thanks, Jim W.
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00290.html (8,893 bytes)
- 26. Re: Museums, Insurance, church of the single ground point, etc (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 21:20:55 -0400
- The tax rub comes when you try to take a salary out of your non I asked an accountant about the Church thing a few years back. IIRC the additional thing that being a 'minister' did for you was get yo
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00370.html (7,259 bytes)
- 27. Re: 200 MPH Clubs (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 20:36:23 -0400
- Yep. FIA is broken.
- /html/land-speed/2005-04/msg00392.html (7,592 bytes)
- 28. I tried to do it the right way (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 20:41:31 -0500
- I tried to purchase, from the Discovery channel, a copy of the Monster Garage Lakester project. Not available yet - no idea when it will be available. In the interim, would anyone by kind enough to l
- /html/land-speed/2005-03/msg00070.html (6,556 bytes)
- 29. Re: Save the Salt (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:46:23 -0500
- Woo Hoo! Now we're talkin!
- /html/land-speed/2005-02/msg00048.html (6,639 bytes)
- 30. Re: Rotation Drag and other problems (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:50:21 -0500
- I have heard it recommended that a metal plate be fashioned and placed at an angle to the tire, designed for close tolerance when the tire is rotating, to strip off air to avoid pumping losses in th
- /html/land-speed/2005-02/msg00082.html (7,979 bytes)
- 31. Subject: a coke can? (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:43:08 -0500
- I remember this problem from engineering school. If you look at the cost of material, and the cost of seaming (crimping the top and bottom, you will find that, to hold 12 oz of beverage the specific
- /html/land-speed/2005-02/msg00370.html (8,266 bytes)
- 32. Re: Subject: Starter / Alternator question (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:56:45 -0500
- Starter/generators are used quite a bit on turbine engines. Unit is geared to the main shaft, works like a starter when 'starting' (duh), and as it is directly geared is used as a generator after th
- /html/land-speed/2005-02/msg00447.html (7,956 bytes)
- 33. Fw: lAero Revelations (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:40:27 -0500
- (I think I figured out why this did not go - trying again, fingers crossed.) narrowing). laminar things drag
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00243.html (7,886 bytes)
- 34. Running the prototype (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 08:13:37 -0500
- My prototype is getting kinda close to completion. Maybe have it all buttoned up in about 6 weeks or so, which has generated a question. (I'm building a light gauge tube prototype to check out steeri
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00270.html (7,187 bytes)
- 35. White coats (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:33:03 -0500
- I thought the guys in the white coats were the ones that were trying to put certain list moderators into rubber rooms. LOL Thanks, Jim W.
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00544.html (6,778 bytes)
- 36. Fw: Re:NON LSR: Faulty Chute Deployment( Vertical Mode )Causes (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:05:35 -0500
- an were wisened of you back a death for
- /html/land-speed/2004-12/msg00295.html (8,717 bytes)
- 37. Re: Ladder Frame diagonal cross brace welding. (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:54:31 -0500
- Ah! So instead of notching the diagonal for the horizontal and vertical tube, just notch the diagonal tube to fit the horizontal tube, and then notch the vertical tube to lap over the now welded dia
- /html/land-speed/2004-11/msg00007.html (9,217 bytes)
- 38. Ladder Frame diagonal cross brace welding. (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:50:26 -0500
- Perhaps I am over thinking this. I'm building a frame from round tube, with two horizontal main members and several vertical cross members. I want to diagonally brace each square section. So, a singl
- /html/land-speed/2004-10/msg00273.html (7,615 bytes)
- 39. Re: E- --EVOLUTION (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 10:29:09 -0400
- How much additional should one allow for a fire suit? 1 inch? 1 inch each side? More? Less? Thanks, Jim.
- /html/land-speed/2004-09/msg00041.html (7,901 bytes)
- 40. Quantum-leap (score: 1)
- Author: "J I Waldron" <jwaldron47@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:46:41 -0400
- Looks to me based on the number of records being set, and the generally large margins by which the old ones records are being surpassed, like this is one of those quantum-leap meets. You know, things
- /html/land-speed/2004-08/msg00211.html (6,608 bytes)
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