OK Dave, I'll be second to fess up
1992, 210 MPH record, D/GCC
1995, 196 MPH record, E/GCC
1998, 226 MPH record, D/FCC
1998, 226 MPH record, D/GCC - 231 MPH top speed.
1999, 207 MPH record, E/GCC
As you can see these arn't huge engines either. Hoping in 2000 to get my AA
licence and make it over 250. Just may try that new turbo combination, if
Keith can get the bugs worked out.
John Beckett
-----Original Message-----
From: dahlgren <dahlgren@uconect.net>
To: Land-speed@autox.team.net <Land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 6:58 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Studebaker]
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: Studebaker
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:09:51 -0400
>From: dahlgren <dahlgren@uconect.net>
>To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com
>References: <8525680F.006622A2.00@ebmail.gdeb.com>
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>Lets have a show of hands.. On this list who's car goes how fast..
>Documented.. Time slip better yet a record..I'll start 218 2 liters
>G/FL runs 180 at the quarter and 230 out the back door...NEXT....Of
>course with a Cosworth 'Pinto'
>Dave Dahlgren
>Could of had a V-8 just did not need one to get the driver in the 2
>club.. Oh ya in gas the old record was 162 new # is 205.. Fuel was 198
>now 218 Gee maybe a turbo and 250..
>with a 2 liter..
>ANYWAY WHO IS NEXT TO FESS UP ?
>
>dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote:
>>
>> 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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