NO NASCAR PISTONS PERIOD.. They are way too thin..Don't aske me how I know..
Two perfectly good records qualified for but not enough left to bother with
a return run..
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Bryan Savage
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:49 PM
> To: Dave Dahlgren
> Cc: John Burk; land-speed
> Subject: Re: Dry Sump Musings
>
>
> John,
>
> Many things that work well on a 1/4 mile, shouldn't be used at Bonneville.
> Two examples:
>
> Aluminum rods.
> The oil used in Pro Stock engines. It's a single grade 0W oil.
> not 0W-30, just 0W.
>
> Over the years I've spent a lot of time walking the course, with
> the gang, picking
> parts from what was a perfectly good 1/4 mile motor. In my
> opinion, a good place
> to start building a Bonneville motor is, as Dave said, endurance
> racing. I would
> also include off shore boat racing and NASCAR 500 mile engines.
>
> OBTW ... I've been talking about long course applications only.
> I have no experience
> with short course motors.
>
> Bryan
>
>
> Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> > How many G's for 90 degrees?? How can it matter it is 540 turns
> under power
> > for 4 1/2 seconds you might as well just grease them.. You know
> the bearings
> > and pistons will be trash every 540 revs there is no science that I can
> > see.. Try the 24 hours of Daytona sometime if you want to learn
> about oiling
> > systems and bearings..
> > Dave
>
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