My MGB club is well known for staging rallies since the mid 50s. They've got
all kinds of neat timing gizmos for us stage workers. All the timers, and
there are many, are accurate to a thousandth of a second and are all
calibrated to each other. Plus we get neat radios to talk to each other
with.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry and Donna Cost <tcost@vvm.com>
To: Datsun Roadsters <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 12:25 AM
Subject: TSD Rallies and other stuff
> Back a long time ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, a good friend and I
> did TSD rallies in his 1600. It was a little cramped after about three
> hours, and we missed a few markers when we used the hardtop because of the
> limited visibility (our excuse, anyway), but we had a lot of fun, won a
few
> times, and remained friends. It's like bridge clubs. Most husband-wife
> teams become ex-husband ex-wife teams because they can't help rehashing
past
> mistakes. We took one leg at a time, and promptly forgot it. My friend
> drove and I navigated. When we used a car with more creature comforts we
> had just as much fun. My present roadster wouldn't be a good ride because
I
> have no odometer and a 5.13 rear end, which is really tough on
mathematical
> calculations. I guess they still do math in rallies. Electronic gadgets
> may have obsoleted the navigator's job.
>
> Enough of this frivolity. I need to tell you about the TDROC Fall Fling,
> which this year will be in the Rockport/Corpus Christi area, October 21st
> and 22nd. We plan to ride the free ferry to Mustang Island (that part of
> the barrier islands between Galveston Island and Padre Island), see the
> Texas State Aquarium, the USS Lexington aircraft carrier, possibly the
> Pinta, Nina, or Santa Maria replicas, and we may even get to see if the
> Corpus police do roadster profiling. All that and more. Our new TDROC
> website
>
> http://members.home.net/cehubbard/tdroc/
>
> has more details, or email me for further instructions.
>
> I saw some interesting ways to plumb cold air into autocross cars at
Topeka.
> Home improvement stores carry semi-rigid "bubble wrap" insulation that can
> be fastened to an aluminum frame to make a cold box that fits in the
engine
> compartment. You could wrap the insulation around RV type sewer hose (Wal
> Mart) and build a cold box around the stock filter housing, with the sewer
> hose leading to the grill opening. Most of the setups had a pressure
relief
> system so you wouldn't overfeed the carbs with air at speed and lean out
the
> mixture. I'm going to play with those ideas and if I come up with a good
> system I'll let you know.
>
>
> Leisure Suit Terry
>
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