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Re: [Fot] Setting sights on the salt

To: "Friends of Triumph" <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Setting sights on the salt
From: "RACER BUD" <budscars@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:56:12 -0800
This is beginning to sound like an awful lot of Fun!
Racer Bud
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
To: "Friends of Triumph" <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Setting sights on the salt


> Altitude of 4200 feet will reduce the power about 20%, then there is the 
> salt
> and it goes on and on.  Not as easy as it sounds to make the average speed
> over a measured mile not just the top speed for an instant..
>
> Never Be beaten by Equipment
> Kas Kastner
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Bill Babcock
>  To: Friends of Triumph
>  Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:11 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Fot] Setting sights on the salt
>
>
>  Maybe we should just stick a nose cone on Peyote. I'm already pretty
>  streamlined--not a sharp edge anywhere.
>  On Dec 14, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Chuck Arnold wrote:
>
>  > Great idea -- but 130 shold be real easy in the wedge.  I hit
>  > somewhere
>  > around 130-135 on the straight at Pacific Raceway with the TR6 [not
>  > really
>  > very aerodynamic] and that comes from a 7/8 mile run begun around
>  > 80 mph at
>  > the turn into the straight.  Course I am nearly maxed out at RPM
>  > [about
>  > 6500] in the Toyota 5th gear with 4.08 Nissan rear end.
>  >
>  > On another note, Jeff Durant, who is in FOT, has a new email
>  > address and
>  > asked me how to get it changed.  Hopefully you can do it.  It is now
>  > Jeff.Durant@lamrc.com.
>  > Chuck
>  >
>  >
>  > On 12/13/06, Mark J. Bradakis <mjb@autox.team.net> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> A fair bit of traffic the last few days on the FOT list.  I've been
>  >> meaning
>  >> to write up some info about the various changes to the list, the
>  >> server
>  >> and
>  >> such.  But for the moment, some thoughts about the Salt Flats.
>  >>
>  >> A Triumph powered run for a record could be fun.  A LOT of work,
>  >> desperation,
>  >> heartbreak, etc.  But it could be fun other than that.  And it
>  >> might make
>  >> a
>  >> good story for Kas' next book!
>  >>
>  >> Perhaps the first step  will be to get the TR7 at least driveable,
>  >> and set
>  >> my
>  >> sights on getting into the 130 MPH club with the Utah Salt Flats
>  >> Racing
>  >> Association.  These aren't the guys who do the big Speed Week
>  >> event, it
>  >> should
>  >> be a much more gentle approach to seeing what it is all about.
>  >> Check out
>  >> http://www.saltflats.com for more info.
>  >>
>  >> Hmm, maybe I can schedule some IVR events next year to coincide
>  >> with Salt
>  >> Flats events, give me a chance to get out there and check some
>  >> things out,
>  >> maybe even make a run for the 130 MPH club in fall of 2007.  We
>  >> shall see.
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >> mjb.
>  >>
>  >> http://fatchancegarage.com
>  >>
>  >> Wee fish, ewe, a mare, egrets, moose
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>  > --
>  > Chuck Arnold
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