[Healeys] Exciting / Interesting video

Austin Healey pajtamuvek at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 12:27:58 MDT 2011


My boys were spellbounded by the movies (Domonkos 4yrs, Benedek 2 yrs old).
Just like me.
Many thanks!

That yellow flag-oil puddle thing was quite scary even through the camera. I
bet even worse in the car.

Gergo

2011/9/1 Chris Dimmock <austin.healey at gmail.com>

> Awesome stuff, Jaap & Rinus.
> Tell me about how you filmed it?
> There must have been a light. A camera. How did you mount them??/
> Awesome work. Great video. Well done.
> Thanks!
> Chris
> www.myaustinhealey.com/
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On 01/09/2011, at 10:31 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<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<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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>> Rinus Sinke
>> Rijksweg Zuid 20
>> 6031RL Nederweert
>> The Netherlands
>>
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>>
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