Yeah, it was pretty neat doing the NASA stuff. It was for the Clark
Research Center in Cleveland. They were doing high altitude pilotless
aircraft and were using the Wankle engine turboed. They sent one of their
engineers out to interview with me for several hours. Pretty interesting
doing that from my little hotrod company Arkay Inc. in Hawthorne California.
This was in the early 80's and they used my tubo system for their showpiece
at the annual aircraft gathering in Wisc. that year. It was very cool.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
To: R. Kastner <kaskas@earthlink.net>
Cc: Greg Solow <Gregmogdoc@surfnetusa.com>; Ronald R Gates
<Ronald.R.Gates@usa.dupont.com>; Henry Frye <thefryes@iconn.net>;
<fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: A couple questions
> NASA, Huh??? It never ceases to amaze me how the stalwarts of Triumph
fame seem
> to be so pervasive in other areas as well!
>
> Regards,
> Joe
>
> P.S. I used Kendall GT1 Racing oil in a 230 ci 6 cylinder Camaro I
autocrossed
> back in the late 60's. After 127,000 miles, the only discernible problem
inside
> the engine were cracks in a couple of piston skirts! Good stuff, that
Kendall!
>
> "R. Kastner" wrote:
> >
> > Interesting aboaut the Kendall oil as I too have used it with GREAT
success.
> > I came on this while in the turbocharger business. In doing the turbos
for
> > NASA and on my recomendation they changed from their own oil to the
Kendall
> > DIESEL OIL and eleminated the bearing failures they were having so much
> > trouble with. I was rebuilding their turbos quite regularly and this
change
> > kind of put all the business right in the dumper. I recommended this oil
to
> > all my customers running turbos at high boost pressures.
>
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