Just to keep the ball rolling on this, let's say someone is visualizing
a double-engine streamliner, with really big power, that could run
safely to 250 in the standing mile at Maxton.
If I was the driver, I would want the ride to be as simple as possible,
with nothing to do but step on the throttle and go as hard as the track
could take, feel the traction and stability, steer it, then pop the
chutes and stand on the (very powerful) brakes at the Timing Stand.
That would be enough for anybody to do.
For this dream car I'd have two big, reliable, fairly inexpensive
injected BB Chevs on gas, about 500 cubes and 1000 horsepower each, with
the cranks coupled together, one engine driving the back locked axle
through a loose torque converter, one gear only, one engine driving the
front locked axle through a loose torque converter, one gear only. Big
tires of the NASCAR super-speedway type, or better, would be necessary
to hold that kind of power on the Maxton concrete.
When starting, you step on it, both engines rev to about 4000 and
probably spin both front and rear wheels, so you feather it, and just
feed in all the power possible. Tire size and gear ratio to suit about
7000 revs at 250 mph.
I believe the driver wants to sit back at the rear axle, or behind it,
so he can feel what the car is doing and sense any dangerous degree of
fish-tailing during all the pandemonium of his standing-mile Maxton
ride.
Within those parameters there are probably a number of gorgeous
streamliner bodies to use for models, because we want the car to be
stunning in appearance as well as performance. Don't forget the "16
straights" too for"The Sound". Just the roar of this monster will
convert all the small boys for ten miles around to speed-trials forever.
If Joe likes the sound of my little Ardun coming by, wait til he hears
this one!
How about it John, would this work? Cheers Bill
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