I think that you will find that most people put the Monza exhaust that way
becase its easier to do- when you stick the nose in the dirt you don't have
clearance for the headers under the car pointed to the back-- out the side is
not the best way for speed some people feel--wmts
> From: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
> Date: 2003/10/20 Mon PM 06:24:27 CDT
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: More newbie questions
>
> Ray:
> surely what Glen told you was right (about the 126 car)-- he knows an awful
> lot about a big percentage of the competitors.
>
> Skip:
> yeah, Gary's car seems red to me, too-- but my "red" might be some people's
> "purple"! And 326 is a lot like 126-- easy number change for class change,
> I thought maybe.
>
> When I was working for you in 2001, I mentioned the idea of using pnuematic
> "sweepers" to get to solid salt. You mentioned someone who had his pipes
> that way-- and I have beeen thinking it was Gary (I hadn't yet met him at
> that time). We were also talking about turbos at the time-- but maybe the
> turbo part had nothing to do with Gary-- just my old brain massaged it all
> into one memory allocation!
>
> Thanks for the corrections.
>
> Kinda wierd that two similar cars have this very unusual exhaust layout--
> but I guess in both cases it probably has something to do with the Monza
> structural problem.
>
> Neat to know that Mike made a fast run in it. I've only known him to work
> "crew" previously. Neat to know it ran straight-- and Rose, also. Got the
> sense that the Salt wasn't really great for WF.
> Russ, #1226B
>
>
"Sparky"
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