Welcome aboard George. I ran a 300 cu. in. Desoto back in the fifties,
switching to Chevrolet in '62. I wish I had saved my Desoto parts, but
alas they are gone. Good Luck with your project. Hope to meet you at the
Salt.
Tom, Redding CA #216 D/CC
george mitchell wrote:
>
> My name is George Mitchell and I live in Washington
> DC.
> I used to live in beautiful Austin Texas where I met
> Skip Higginbotham. Me ,a life long drag racer,somehow
> Skip convinced me that the cool thing to do was to put
> a high gear in my drag car and go to Wendover. Alas ,I
> never got the chance then but I do have the chance
> now.
> I am building a new car based on on a 924 Porsche .
> I have started a back half of the car with a small
> tire and have all the pieces to lower it put a 9 inch
> rear in it and go racing!
> Here is the issue . I have a bunch of early hemi stuff
> (desoto) and I am collecting hot rod stuff for it . I
> can get some chrysler parts ( 392 ) but I want to run
> the small motor and run in D/MS.Run it on gas first,
> then injected alcohol, then blown injected alcohol
> with some pop. Skip suggests that that I forget the
> whole thing and just put a destroked chevy in the car
> and let it eat. Fabrication is not a problem on the
> motor (ie intake, grind the crank for chevy jounals
> ,etc ). The bottom line is I know what to do with the
> motor but will it be competitve in the long run ? I
> am anxious to get out there but as you can see I am
> trying to go fast in kind of a different way...
> Any thoughts ???
> Any Parts ????
> Thanks a lot and I am looking forward to meeting as
> many of you as possible in April on the east coast and
> August on the west coast.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; <V4GR@aol.com>;
> <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; <dahlgren@uconect.net>;
> <Land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:59 PM
> Subject: Re: cut-off switch
>
> >
> > I absolutely agree that the switch should be in a
> > standardized location. Rule out where it
> > sholuldn't be, and there are only about two
> > places left. It shouldn't be on the top, either
> > side, or the bottom of the car, since any of
> > those could be the "bottom" in an emergency
> > situation. The car is not likely to stand on
> > it's end, so that leaves the front or the rear of
> > the car for a location. The rear seems to be the
> > obvious choice. I think the type of switch
> > should be left up to the owner, as long as it
> > makes the tech inspector happy. The pull rod or
> > cable on a knife switch is nice and simple, a
> > manual master switch if your battery happens to
> > be in the rear works well, and the constant
> > service solonoid works good too. It should be
> > clearly marked in bright colors like yellow and
> > black or red with big letters that say
> > "pull-off", or an easy to read direction arrow
> > with "Off" marked.
> >
> > - Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net> wrote:
> > > Lets try a thought here on this Switch.....
> > >
> > > The purpose is to aid the Safety crew should
> > > they need to shut down the
> > > Vehicle in trouble. and Since I have trained
> > > bunches of Fire departments
> > > in the art of Shutting down a helicopter I know
> > > that Training folks up
> > > front is a Critical thing in an emergency
> > > situation. All the tags and
> > > Labels in the world won't make up for the lack
> > > of a Standardized location.
> > > So Like the NHRA it's my thoughts that dealing
> > > with this as a Safety issue
> > > The Switch needs to be in a single location....
> > > and I am going to go
> > > further and state that It really needs to be on
> > > a single spot on the car...
> > > not just a generalized area.
> > >
> > > All that having been said and listening to
> > > everyone's thoughts... How bout
> > > we combine all of this by using a Constant Duty
> > > Solenoid in the area of
> > > choice but have the Master Battery switch be a
> > > simple light gage wire to
> > > where ever you mount the solenoid? I am
> > > currently using three of these on
> > > my car and they work great.... This isn't a
> > > Starter Solenoid though it
> > > looks just like one.... but this one is
> > > designed to remain in the on
> > > position once it's energized....
> > >
> > > Just my thoughts.... Keith
> > >
> > > ----------
> > > > From: V4GR@aol.com
> > > > To: landspeedracer@email.msn.com;
> > > dahlgren@uconect.net;
> > > Land-speed@autox.team.net
> > > > Subject: Re: cut-off switch
> > > > Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:59 AM
> > > >
> > > > On my Vega my batteries are in the trunk and
> > > my switch is mounted on the
> > > > panel between the rear bumper and the
> > > trailing edge of the deck lid. When
> > > I
> > > > mount one on the roadster it will be
> > > similarly located. I understand Jack
> > > put
> > > > a pull handle on the rear of his liner
> > > connected to a knife edge switch
> > > > mounted near the batteries. Rich Fox
> > >
> >
> > =====
> > .............................
> > ..........Dick J.............
> > ......(In East Texas)........
> > ....FX/GMR SC/P250-2........
> > .....Shelby 427 Cobra.......
> > .Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
> > .............................
> > Do You Yahoo!?
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