[Land-speed] Couple of questions.

sparky.2211 at cox.net sparky.2211 at cox.net
Wed Jan 26 06:19:46 MST 2011


My Good Dr. Mayf.

With a good stiff frame, solid or tunable suspension and ZERO scrub radius; in conjunction with a good aero back end I don't think wb would be a controling factor----YMMV.



---- Larry Mayfield <drmayf at mayfco.com> wrote: 
> Any of ya'll ever had a custom crank fabricated for your motor?  I mean 
> from a raw forging or billet?  I am dickering with folk to do that or at 
> least to see what kind of pocket book pain that might bring. I was 
> wonder what kinds of costs are involved..anybody got any idea?
> 
> Next is how fast have short wheel base cars gone as a max before? I am 
> not really keen or runing the sunbeam too much faster with it's 90 inch 
> wheel base, but Lightfoo drives the Alfa romeo to about 225 mph and that 
> puppy is only 84 inches. So, for those of you that still have some 
> memory left (mine seems to be hiding from me occasionally), you remember 
> any fast, short cars?  90 inces or less?
> 
> Have a good night!
> mayf
> _______________________________________________


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