Uncle Frank! Is it really you???..............We've been looking for
your side of the family ever since they threw great-grandpa in
prison for bigamy!! Let us know how things are going with the
"ett" family faction<VBG>
Steve Hammatt
----- Original Message -----
From: <FHammett@aol.com>
To: <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: air boxes
> <Everything I read and am told by "experts" says that supplying cold air
> to carburetors results in more horsepower. I notice, however, that
> almost no one uses one>
>
> A recent article in the Titan Newsletter Jan. 2000 is on this point.
>
> Roy Thomas was one of the owners of Charles Lucus engineering and then
Titan
> Cars. (Manufactures of Titan Formula Fords in the 1970s.) He wrote as
> follows:
>
> "which leads me to the airbox charade. Never found air intakes on FF to
make
> the slightest difference, but the racers wanted them, and a good source of
> income came from changing them often!----We spent a whole day testing and
> came to the conclusion that it made no difference at all! What a waste of
> time and money."
>
> Maybe this is only relevant to the Formula Fords drivers out there.
>
> frank hammette
> Rupturedduck.com
>
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