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RE: TR6 Manifold Gasket Query

To: "Navarrette, Vance" <vance.navarrette@intel.com>
Subject: RE: TR6 Manifold Gasket Query
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Navarrette, Vance wrote:

>       Robert:
> 
>       Yikes! 12:1?!?!?

Yep. 12:1.
 
>       That is manly compression, dude! Do you need octane enhancers?

Ummm.... ya. argh arGh ARGH. Manly indeed. I had the motor apart and then,
well, you know, insanity set in.

I'm well beyond octane boosters. I use 110 octace race fuel.

> Will it run on pump gas?

No. $7 / gal race fuel.

>       Makes me feel like an effeminate girly-man at 9.6:1

Ya, but you can drive that thing on the street.

My car costs about $10 every time I bump the starter key... maybe a tad
more. Ouch!

>       Whimper,
> 
>       Vance 

regards,
rml

p.s. it sounded real hot when I got is started.
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