Tom
I've always wanted to run on the "Lakes". Muroc is my best shot right now.
Some day maybe El-Mirage too.
I guess each car and it's unique design have different problems with dust.
Just don't know what mine will be until June. At least I now know to seal
up everything I possibly can and get a better forward facing fresh air
scoop.
Good point about being a rookie on a new course. We tell people the same at
Maxton, make an easy pass your first time to see the lay of the land and get
the feel of the concrete. Also where Chucks birds are hanging out. Of course
each entry at Maxton can get 10 or more runs under there belts in an
weekend. So your not under pressure to make every run count.
John Beckett, ECTA/BNI #79
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas E. Bryant <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
To: John Beckett <johnbeck@blueridge.cc.nc.us>
Cc: Land Speed <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:17 PM
Subject: Lakes & Dust
>John,
>I am glad to hear that you are planning a trip to Muroc 2000. I suppose
>that puts more pressure on me to visit Maxton.
>
>Dust is a big problem when running the Lakes. I have always had a little
>dust in the car, particularly on the first few hundred feet, but when a
>little speed is built enough air enters the driver's compartment through
>the fresh air scoop to push it out. However, after we rebuilt the car
>after the wreck, I changed the bottom of the car and added skirting,
>this made a vacuum cleaner out of it and I really got dusted out and had
>to shut off.
>
>Even after removing the shirt and taping all the holes we could find it
>was still dirtier than I would like. Last year I cut a couple of 1 1/2"
>holes in the windshield and that cured the problem. If there is a
>negative pressure in the car it is almost impossible to keep the dust
>out.
>
>I have also had problems with wind blowing dust across the course and
>obscuring vision. Lakes racing is a very heads up sport, lots of people
>close to the course, sometimes crossing the course, wind, dust, and
>short acceleration and stopping distances. No matter how long you have
>been racing, if you are a first time Lakes contestant, you are a rookie!
>It is definitely a different environment.
>
>Tom, Redding CA 9:10AM PST
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