were was that Tom?
Racer Bud
----- Original Message -----
From: "tom strange" <tstrange@sbcglobal.net>
To: "triumph club club" <Fot@Autox.Team.Net>; "dick ross"
<niteseeker@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] TR3 Interior now lakes pipes
> Okay,
> Since I got drug into this ... street racing in the 60's some cars had
> lakes
> pipes, most functional, and most of them hot rods. T-bucket types ran
> them as
> exhaust, open and mufflers installed inside them to keep the cops at bay,
> but
> still loud.
> The ones of us that ran $100 a gear 1/4 mile runs on the back roads,
> pretty
> much did not want to draw that much attention so we simply had easily
> opened
> (& illegal) cutouts behind the front wheels that could be opened with 3 or
> 4
> small bolts. The cutouts sold with a remote control and a throttle plate
> type
> setup, were not desirable, as they were not dependable and provided
> restriction where you did not want it.
>
> Now for my car ... not Lakes pipes ... for one, there is only one of
> them
> ... when I get a V8 in a spit, you will see 2 of them ... Its fully
> functional and the end pipe required by regs to exit exhaust behind the
> driver. It points exhaust down and away from sound meters, and is the
> result
> of a designed, tuned exhaust ....
> Lakes pipes rarely ever fell into the tuned exhaust catagory, as we
> mostly
> just wanted to look and sound good with the cars we ran them on in the
> 60's
> ....
>
> All that said, they were "cool" on the right cars .... non-functional and
> "stupid" on the wrong cars .... and very "Bid Daddy Roth ish" on many
> show
> cars that didnt have to go anywhere ...
>
> jm2cw
>
>
> Bottom line ... I dont consider my exhaust to be a Lakes pipe .. :>)
>
>
> Tom
>
> http://www.fot-racing.com/spit/caption/tom_strange.htm
>
>
> #4 white spitfire
>
> --- On Sat, 3/28/09, dick ross <niteseeker@aol.com> wrote:
>
> From: dick ross <niteseeker@aol.com>
> Subject: [Fot] Nice TR3 Interior
> To: "triumph club club" <Fot@Autox.Team.Net>
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 5:20 PM
>
> If you go to the FOT site and look at Spitfires you will see Tom Strange
> had
> the
> on his race car.
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