May sound indifferent... but at this level it is so serious the fun comes
later after the records and when the car is safely back on a trailer....
you simply can't take anything for granted up front... that is why we went
over the car with a fine tooth comb yesterday.... Nuts bolts and so on....
It's the same with the Camaro... or the Healey when I build it.. This
stuff I am doing is still all about setting a record over two hundred in a
Healey... a Jag is a close second... but it is still second.... (it's the
technology in the car that I am intrigued by) and hope to use it in the
Healey one day....
I gotta tell y'all that this thing is actually a STREET car... you gotta
use your imagination a little but the car from the curb looks dead stock...
to include the mirrors and power brakes power steering... and windows .....
you talk about a Ferrari getting suckered in... I mean this thing is just
that stock.... right up till you pop the hood... then it becomes ahhh
Serious again.....
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
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> From: Larry Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; spridgets@autox.team.net;
healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Twin Turbo Jag XJS
> Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 7:30 AM
>
> Keith,
> Sounds like fun, I'm green with envy :-(
>
> Larry Miller
> http://www.ado13.com
> You can't be a real country unless you have
> a beer and an airline - it helps if you have
> some kind of a football team, or some
> nuclear weapons, but at the very least you
> need a beer.-Frank Zappa
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>
> To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:16 AM
> Subject: Twin Turbo Jag XJS
>
>
> > I had an opportunity to Test out my driving skills today in a Twin
Turbo
> > Charged intercooled Jag XJS.... we took it up the Hwy and back to get
my
> > self situated with the car... I am going to Drive the Car for the guy
at
> > our next Land Speed Racing event at Maxton, N Carolina...
> >
> > the fella built a nice car... Scary fast and to be frank I think it
scares
> > him to the point that he wants a Driver.... and I am fascinated by the
> > technology so here we go.... WoW this stuff works like stink...
Press
> > the throttle and you have to go back to the last exit to collect your
> > thoughts....
> >
> > Understand this fella hasn't built this thing on a lark.... he has been
to
> > Bonneville three times with the car.... setting a record twice at
215mph
> > and last year at 233mph... with a Spin at 257mph.... ahh yeah this
thing
> > works like stink....
> >
> > The best I can hope for right now is to give you the basic's of the set
up
> > and after the Meet I should be able to tell you a bunch more about
it...
> >
> > it's a Rodex Aluminum Block with a belt drive and aluminum heads... it
> runs
> > around 8.0:1 compression.... and has these twin turbo's feeding a
Spearco
> > Iced water intercooler which feed a single throttle body bent 90 into
the
> > top of a VictorJr intake which has 80lb injectors set at 70+ pounds of
> fuel
> > Pressure..
> > today we didn't go over 14 lbs of boost and I think I got it up to
around
> > 170 in 3rd gear in about 1/2 of a mile being semi easy..... He wanted
to
> > see if I would floor the car..... NEXT QUESTION.... but honestly when
we
> > hit 2 on this little run and the rear broke loose at part throttle I
> > realized why he wanted me to drive it.... 1400hp is a bunch.... the
> > biggest difference in this car and my race car with a 700hp N/A motor
is
> > that my little 296 has to get wound up to make big Power.... This thing
> > simply ran like stink from the bottom end all the way up...
> >
> > okay that is about it... neat story eh.... I am thinking here on the
25th
> > of Sept I will be able to tell you just how fast it is on a Concrete
> runway
> > in One mile...
> >
> > Ps I packed the twin Parachutes and pulled the releases today... just
to
> > sort out that system in my mind.... a car doesn't even have to start..
but
> > if it does it damn sure has to Stop and steer... Oh and the Fire
Bottles
> > and Roll Cage where inspected Closely also....
> >
> > Keith Turk
> > Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
> > Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
> > Keith Turk
> > Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
> > Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
> >
>
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