Is there Nitrous available at the ERC Trailer? How do you guys fill your
bottles? Just a Side thought this morning.....
K
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> From: Thomas E. Bryant <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> Cc: dahlgren <dahlgren@uconect.net>; Land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Fuel and Gas Class
> Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 9:38 AM
>
> Dick,
>
> Sorry, I didn't reply to the main issue in your question. I have not run
> gasoline with nitrous as yet. I would imagine that the same logic would
> apply as with the fuels without nitrous. Alky has a higher octane
> allowing higher compression ratios, but I will attest that Alky will
> detonate at 12.5:1 when you hit the nitrous switch. (Five pistons in
> about two seconds) If your tuneup isn't right.
>
> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC
>
> Dick J wrote:
> >
> > What CR would be recommended for Nitro/Alky mix,
> > higher or lower than for gasoline?
> >
> > --- "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Dick,
> > >
> > > It really depends on what you want to do, I
> > > guess. I have always used
> > > the same motor in both classes. I just build
> > > for Gas Class and accept
> > > that it will be a little less effective on
> > > Fuel.
> > >
> > > We run about 12.5:1 compression, I have found
> > > that it gets real
> > > difficult to get much more than 13:1 in a 302
> > > cu in Chevrolet motor. We
> > > do well on Alky, better when adding nitrous,
> > > and have run 33% nitro with
> > > good success in the 1/4 and 1/2 mile drags. In
> > > 1967, we ran 190 MPH at
> > > El Mirage in D/FR, at that time we held the
> > > D/GR record at 173.74 MPH.
> > > That was as far as I could run the engine on
> > > nitro without major
> > > problems, it was detonating severely at the end
> > > of the run. My best time
> > > at Bonneville on nitro was 196, I could never
> > > make it live past the 1
> > > 1/2 mile with all cylinders running. It was
> > > surely a great ride while it
> > > lasted.
> > >
> > > I was running a basic gasoline setup, just
> > > changing nozzles and jet, the
> > > fuel pump was a Hilborn "0" which didn't
> > > deliver enough fuel for the
> > > longer runs. Everyone told me that running that
> > > percentage on 12.5:1
> > > compression ratio wouldn't work and basically
> > > they were right, but I got
> > > by with it on the short runs and had a ball.
> > > Kinsler tells me that I
> > > could run up to 20% nitro with the pump and
> > > nozzles I am using for Alky.
> > > They recommend going 16% larger richer on the
> > > bypass jet for each 10% of
> > > nitro. Some day I'm going to try it again. I
> > > have five gallons of nitro
> > > that I have been saving for a long time.
> > >
> > > Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/CC
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Dick J wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Tom,
> > > > I was just cruisin through your website again
> > > and
> > > > noticed that you made the notation that you
> > > run
> > > > both gas and fuel under a single photo, which
> > > got
> > > > me thinking. Do you run both gas and fuel in
> > > the
> > > > same motor? Can you do it all at one meet?
> > > Or is
> > > > it a complete changeover from one meet to
> > > > another? I have often wondered what the
> > > > differences between fuel and gas motors were.
> > > I
> > > > know that gas motors run common CRs in the
> > > 10:1 -
> > > > 12:1 area, and alcohol runs something like
> > > 15:1.
> > > > What if they are blown motors, CR must be a
> > > lot
> > > > lower. What about unblown nitro motor - what
> > > > kind of CR does that run? And last, what
> > > about a
> > > > blown nitro motor - what CR do they run?
> > > >
> > > > I guess what I'm asking is: can a single
> > > motor,
> > > > either blown or unblown, be built to run both
> > > > gasoline and nitro, or alcohol with just
> > > simple
> > > > changes like timing and jets?
> > > >
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