- 361. RE: rant on the "vintage" in vintage racing A LINK for Vintage (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:18:47 -0700
- Good one! I cerftainly understand what Burt says about "buy a formula ford and order up some humble pie". the difference between first and fifth in any formula race generally can't be made up just wi
- /html/fot/2005-06/msg00446.html (7,472 bytes)
- 362. RE: GT6 rear sway bar (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:32:56 -0700
- If the suspension woes of TRs only came down to sway bars it would be a great thing. Depending on what anyone has done to the front end, a sway bar in the back could be good or bad. With the typical
- /html/fot/2005-06/msg00476.html (10,368 bytes)
- 363. RE: To whom it may concern...Headed North West (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:30:30 -0700
- Looking forward to seeing you Joe--at both races. --Original Message-- From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Quick Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:09 PM To
- /html/fot/2005-06/msg00488.html (9,815 bytes)
- 364. RE: Oil pan gasket (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:31:23 -0700
- I'm using Justin's gasket--saved my bacon, I couldn't get my pan to stop leaking any other way. Well, any way short of a solid coat of gorilla snot. Works wonderfully. I don't have any ground clearan
- /html/fot/2005-06/msg00500.html (7,877 bytes)
- 365. Northwest Historics, Portland Historics and Columbia River (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:45:25 -0700
- The Pacific Northwest Historics is this weekend--always a great event. Hope it doesn't rain. The forecast looks okay but you never know up here. Then there's the Portland Historics the next weekend.
- /html/fot/2005-06/msg00512.html (6,700 bytes)
- 366. RE: TR3 HEAD GASKET (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 09:16:54 -0700
- Ken Gillanders, Britsh Frame and Engine. Google him--I don't have the email BTW, All caps are considered seriously lame in the internet world. ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND A THIN HEAD GASKET FOR A 87
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00008.html (6,605 bytes)
- 367. RE: FoT Invitation to SVRA's Mid-Ohio-June 2006 (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:45:38 -0700
- Tulsa is a city? Snide remarks aside, from my conversations in the pits it seems there are a lot of people pining over some of the west's great tracks. Perhaps the solution is to create a swing that
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00034.html (10,881 bytes)
- 368. Road Atlanta (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 15:31:30 -0700
- I was just looking at the time sheets and calculating average speeds for Road Atlanta--looks way too fast. Could someone confirm for me that the track is 2.540 miles long? If so that makes a 1:46 lap
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00039.html (7,605 bytes)
- 369. RE: Road Atlanta (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:25:05 -0700
- Hmm. This seems so simple. Something must have addled my math wits. Seems like 2.54 miles/1.46 minutes = X miles/60 minutes or 2.540/1.46=X/60 or (2.540*60)/1.46 = 104.38 Must be losing my marbles. O
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00045.html (8,736 bytes)
- 370. RE: Road Atlanta (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:31:25 -0700
- What a moron. Of course. Bill, I think your problem is that 1:46 is not the same as 1.46. The :46 indicates 46 seconds, so the lap time in minutes is 1 + 46/60 or ~1.767 minutes. 2.54 miles in 1.767
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00046.html (8,291 bytes)
- 371. RE: float bowls on HS6 carbs (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 19:24:09 -0700
- Sunday at the Mitty I came in from the race running on two cylinders. The cause was that the single bolt holding the float chamber to the body of one carb had fractured and the float chamber was han
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00051.html (8,144 bytes)
- 372. Road Atlanta lap times (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 19:22:36 -0700
- My best was 1:46 something, but that was probably a fluke. Mostly I did 1:48 something. The best I saw for the Kastner/Brophy Vitesse with Mark Thomas driving was 1:45 something, and it was the faste
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00052.html (7,887 bytes)
- 373. RE: Thanks FOT from Atlanta (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:50:02 -0700
- It would have had to land in front of me for me to see it. Unless it had a yellow flag--I noticed every one of those--both on and off the track. Mike was not exactly stingy with his help, tools and e
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00058.html (7,129 bytes)
- 374. RE: Mitty (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 07:01:08 -0700
- I think the pace car driver decided it was up to him to start the race and he didn't want people to know when he was planning to pull off. From what I can tell the drivers believed that too--when the
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00074.html (8,232 bytes)
- 375. RE: Group 44 GT-6 (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:26:43 -0700
- Might also try contacting Bob Tullius or Lanky == One possibility is to contact the Heritage Motor Centre in the UK <http://www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk/archive/certificate/default.htm>. They hold
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00078.html (8,302 bytes)
- 376. RE: Re: Exhaust Gas Temperature Gage (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 10:48:40 -0700
- I've kept quiet about this because I have no direct experience on Triumphs, but I've done a lot of exhaust gas temp work building racing engines for bikes. You want the probe as close to the exhaust
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00084.html (11,936 bytes)
- 377. RE: Randy Williams? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 17:51:09 -0700
- Edward, you should be very proud of that car, I thought the build quality was excellent. Very, very sano. Jack: The e-mail that I've conversed with him in the past is rwilliams@williamsoil.com. My co
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00099.html (7,681 bytes)
- 378. RE: Mitty (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 19:29:54 -0700
- Yeah, but I missed it. I saw the winner though--very cool. The sprung rear suspension used rods as arms. I guess it weighed 30 or so pounds. Very slick. The high weight (and inertia) pops a math ques
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00107.html (7,804 bytes)
- 379. RE: float bowls on HS6 carbs (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 00:59:56 -0700
- I wonder if Weber mounts will work on SU carbs Jack, I've been amazed what fatigues and breaks off a 40 year old race car. A couple years ago I had one of the float chamber bolts snap off at the tip
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00110.html (9,236 bytes)
- 380. RE: 2004 Mid Ohio experience (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 06:56:27 -0700
- I'm sure it was all those things too, but the story locally here is that the SCCA was tired of all the whacky complaints about mistreatment of spectators and drivers. One or two would be enough for m
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00115.html (8,508 bytes)
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