Bill
I like your plan. And yes this one with 2000 HP would more likely hit the
300 MPH mark. We have a rotational problem to work out with the front
engine, but it's do-able. How about a body similar to Fred Larsons liner?
JB
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From: <ardunbill@webtv.net>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:23 PM
Subject: Multi-Engine Cars
> 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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