[Healeys] Exciting / Interesting video

[Derek Job]

Great stuff Rinus.

I love the videos on your website, particularly the night section at LeMans.
Great action.

Derek
www.healeysix.net

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Rinus Sinke <rinussinke at kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

> All with interest in racing Healeys,
>
> The youtube video is from my racing car, AH 3000 MKI 1961, primrose yellow
> with two green stripes, driven by my sun Jaap Sinke. The AH is racing with
> the
> European FIA rules en homologation paper for the AH 3000 MK I 1961. It is
> not
> allowed to change the suspension and thus it is stock suspension with other
> bushes. You see the suspension has to do a lot of work. We often change the
> springs, shockabsorbers (they do not leak) and bushes and now we can se why
> we
> have to care for the suspension. The weight of the car is about 1050 kg.
> The
> topspeed at Le Mans of this car was last year 165 mph. When braking in the
> night you see all the discs glowing  red front and rear. Look at
> www.healeymeetslemans.nl for some nice video's and photo's.
> In the youtube link you can see the car driving by Jaap Sinke at an Dutch
> airfield, so it is not real racing. It is the same track as the video with
> the
> ssuspension. If you go to youtube and fill in the name Jaap Sinke Healey en
> of
> Rinus Sinke Healey you find some more nice video's of racing with our AH
> racing car.
>
> Cheers,
> Rinus Sinke, the Netherlands
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbEc2xxykfI
>
>
> Op 1 sep 2011, om 05:57 heeft Bob Spidell het volgende geschreven:
>
> > No wonder the shocks leak.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > On 8/31/2011 8:00 PM, Alan Seigrist wrote:
> >> All -
> >>
> >> Just saw this on the forum.  Very interesting:
> >>
> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-4LLAKlpw&feature=youtu.be
> >>
> >> Four things I see in this:
> >>
> >> 1) The later BJ8 suspension is clearly an advance over this earlier set
> up,
> >> as you can see the axle winding up every time he puts on power.  The
> radius
> >> rods serve to stop the windup.
> >> 2) Later in the video you see the discs start getting white hot (the car
> is
> >> racing up to 150 mph)
> >> 3) Dutch racers are really into the mechanics of it all.
> >> 4) I admire the desire to race using the stock suspension!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Alan
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Bob Spidell           San Jose, CA            bspidell at comcast.net
> >
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