Dave Dalghren this is your Que.
Seriously this is part of what is so cool about LSR. Lots of different
ideas, designs and ingenuity. You won't find it in any other form of
Motorsports. Not everybody is an Al Teague, and want's to go 400 + MPH.
Which is why we have classes for Pinto engines. The goal of one racer may be
just to se if they can get 700 HP out of one of those little Fords. The
challenges of LSR are varied and exciting. I can't get enough.
John Beckett
ECTA & BNI record holder
-----Original Message-----
From: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com <dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com>
To: land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: Studebaker
>personally, i wouldnt be caught dead racing a pinto engine at one of the
>entire worlds fastest places-what a contradiction to me, engines this puny
>are made for shopping mall parking lots on a sunday morning - come on guys,
>there are no limits out there on the salt, this is blue flame territory-
>why not go as fast as you can with the most power you can get your hands
>on. why screw around with these dinky engines when for the same cost you
>could have a chevy / ford / mopar v-8 or similar more power oriented engine
>with twice the power, christ, these things must be wound out around the
>first mile marker, and the cost to get any worthwhile power at all out of
>them must be pretty high . i think driving one of these would be just as
>exiting as driving something powered by a potato battery from a sixth grade
>science experiment , with a little added noise.
>
>doug ferguson
>black radon engineering
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