[Tigers] Bonneville World of Speed...

[Ron Fraser]

Mayf
	You will never disappoint us, we applaud you.

We understand Herculean effort it takes to push yourself and a car "to
infinity and beyond".

The best always.

Ron Fraser

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces+rfraser=bluefrog.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces+rfraser=bluefrog.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
drmayf
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 1:51 PM
To: tigers at autox.team.net; Alpines
Subject: [Tigers] Bonneville World of Speed...


Folks, the world's fastest sunbeam (wannabe) will not make the trip to 
the salt in September. I had recent dental surgery, 8 implants installed 
and my mouth is a wreck. I had planned for the operation to occur in mid 
Agust which would have been fine but it slid out until Sept 4th. I had 
major bone grafting to allow the implants to be installed and that took 
longer to ossify and heal than expected.  I am still eating mush or 
similar.

And the car is missing some of it's instrumentation. The Innovate air 
fuel sensor controller went belly up and it is off being repaired.  And 
the car is in great need of additional weight and some longitudinal 
stability. As verified by the last run I made at Speed Week. Whooeeee! 
With the water injection off and some new found spark advance I headed 
down the salt at a truly blistering pace. I hit my rpm  almost a mile or 
more faster than ever before (ie my on pace rpm would generally be at 
the 3 mile but I was there at 1.2 mils this time).. And then some slick 
salt, lol. Rear end slid out when traction was lost. So I need to add 
about 500 or 600 lbs to the car   to account for teh added torque at teh 
rear wheels, change its polar moment of inertia upward and add some aero 
stability as well in the form of a spoiler.  So lots of work to do 
before I go back.

Very sorry to disappoint all of you who have ben very supportive. Just 
not possible right now.

mayf, sadly
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