[Land-speed] In the beginning

Glen Barrett speedtimer at beyondbb.com
Sun Oct 14 11:39:34 MDT 2007


Mike, welcome to LSR. It's great family.Like Ed said what are you building 
on what base. Where do you live as there might be someone close to you that 
is in LSR that can help get you started. The other is www.landracing.com 
it's loaded with LSR people as well.
Good luck on the project.
Glen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon at comcast.net>
To: "Mike Lackey" <mike_lackey at yahoo.com>; <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] In the beginning


> Mike--
> Are you ready to tell us what body and what displacement class you're
> planning for?
> IMHO your biggest "engineering" problems in GC are going to involve the 
> roll
> cage and possibly mounting a flywheel shield if you're running a stick
> shift.  You may want to cast about for ideas on how best to accomplish an
> SCTA "to the book" roll cage.  This stuff involves heavy metal work and
> welding.  With some good planning you may be able to get away with using
> your first cut without having to redo it.  Also pay careful attention to
> safe seat design and placement relative to the driver controls.
> Oh yeah, all that stuff you remove around the firewall will leave holes 
> that
> will have to be perfectly sealed.  And if it's a relatively late model be
> careful about damaging the serial number identifications.  You never know
> what surprises may be waiting down the road courtesy of our legislatures 
> and
> the hysteria over environmental issues.
> Ed Weldon
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Lackey" <mike_lackey at yahoo.com>
> To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:40 AM
> Subject: [Land-speed] In the beginning
>> For several years now I've had some ideas on a car to build and bring to
>> Bonneville.  I want to race a small displacement /GC class and recently, 
>> I
>> bought the car I plan on racing.  It's going to be a lot of work, but at
> least
>> I've finally gotten started and it's no longer just in my head.
>> I have a ton
>> of questions, but I'll just start with a few for now.  First of all, is
> there
>> anything I should be documenting before I tear things apart on the car?
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