First let attest that for Chuck to hear this E-mail his wife has to read it
to him... and even then it is questionable....as the selective hearing mode
pops up....
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100, Bugeye, Box sprites, Bonneville Camero ( Land Speed
Racer)
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> From: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Noise
> Date: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:45 PM
>
> Wendy, List,
>
> I'll try to be kind to peoples ears with the peripherial port engine.
I'm
> gonna try to break it in running through a muffler, but these engines
really
> perform best with open exhaust. At Maxton I'll pit away from everyone
else
> and try to point the exhaust off into the fields. I might even hand out
> disposable hearing protection to those who are unprepared. I'm the
poster
> boy for hearing conservation, with two hearing aids, but my losses are
more
> from artillery and years of running dyno's than from loud rotaries.
>
> The last things I want are to damage anyones hearing or get slapped
with a
> mandatory noise restriction on a land speed car. It takes three feet of
> Borla and Supertrapp mufflers to keep the car within acceptable limits at
> autocross events with the current engine. When I swap in the peripherial
> port engine I had planned an entirely different exhaust system. Maybe I
can
> design in a very large free flowing muffler to try to quiet it a bit.
(Big
> truck muffler mounted across the back?) There are lots of nice trees
around
> the Maxton Mile, and I wouldn't want anyone to string me up in one.
>
> Chuck "Hear-No-Evil" Rothfuss
> ECTA
>
> P.S. My engines may be loud, but they sure sound sweet...from a safe
distance!
>
>
>
> At 05:48 AM 2/22/99 -0800, Wendy Jeffries wrote:
> >I remember a transplanted Australian who had a rotary engined car that
> >he was running at El Mirage in mid '80s. I don't think he set any
> >records but the racers all threatened to take up a collection to have
> >him snuffed. The noise was awful. :>)
>
>
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