- 261. Re: [Land-speed] 2 or 4 post lift? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:28:25 -0700
- Very interesting question. I couldn't use one of these things because my shop ceiling is too low. But before I'd buy one I'd run some basic structural calculations and look for stresses over 10,000
- /html/land-speed/2008-06/msg00035.html (9,990 bytes)
- 262. Re: [Land-speed] Magnesium (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:11:18 -0700
- Tom -- Yup. It's holding more heat. The common aluminum casting alloy 356 has anywhere from 2-1/2 to 3 times better thermal conductivity (meaning 2-1/2 to 3 times more heat conducted out of the housi
- /html/land-speed/2008-06/msg00047.html (8,753 bytes)
- 263. [Land-speed] Fw: Magnesium (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:39:59 -0700
- Fwd to list with edits -- Original Message -- From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net> To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>; <sardatech@yahoo.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net> Sent: Sunday, June 15,
- /html/land-speed/2008-06/msg00049.html (8,732 bytes)
- 264. [Land-speed] Fw: Barry Kaplan (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:28:56 -0700
- FWD to list with edits -- Original Message -- From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net> To: <sparky.2211@cox.net>; "Glen Barrett" <speedtimer@beyondbb.com>; "J.D. Tone" <gmc6power@earthlink.net>; "la
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00006.html (8,018 bytes)
- 265. Re: [Land-speed] Barry Kaplan (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:16:49 -0700
- Barry was to young to leave us. I'm saddened. Some 8 or so years ago IIRC we pitted next to Barry and we had some chances to chat. I don't remember the car he was running; but I sure remember him. Wo
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00007.html (8,752 bytes)
- 266. Re: [Land-speed] Tires,Mileage,etc/non LSR ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:20:31 -0700
- John -- I never thought about that. But thinking just a bit further, you get part of that energy less the friction losses back in the first stage of the power stroke until the cylinder pressure rises
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00086.html (8,955 bytes)
- 267. Re: [Land-speed] Preventing Salt Damage & Rust>From>JGMagoo (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:09:44 -0700
- Do what Dick J and Benn suggest, but hold off on the frequent washes on the way home. The less time (in hours) that salt, water and high temperatures have to work on unpainted steel in cracks and cr
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00133.html (9,464 bytes)
- 268. Re: [Land-speed] Preventing Salt Damage & Rust (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:08:37 -0700
- WARNING...RANT INCOMING!! I'll give JGMagoo the benefit of the doubt and assume he's not part of the strange side show that has gotten to going in recent years. This consists of seeing who can make t
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00140.html (9,797 bytes)
- 269. Re: [Land-speed] Algae Biodiesel (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:27:27 -0700
- Credible? Who knows? Much if not most of what we see of this sort of thing over the next few years will be pure flim-flam designed to extract money from fools. Even the legitimate ideas can be sunk i
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00157.html (8,368 bytes)
- 270. Re: [Land-speed] High mileage homebuilts (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:03:11 -0700
- I sympathize with you regarding Connecticut's approach to registering vehicles. I used to live in New Jersey where it was similarly difficult to register anything homebuilt. California has always be
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00159.html (8,630 bytes)
- 271. Re: [Land-speed] fuel and such (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:28:35 -0700
- What do you want to bet that someone, either the farmer or some middle man, is stuck with a contract negotiated when air freight was cheaper than today and is now shipping money with every orange....
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00170.html (7,768 bytes)
- 272. Re: [Land-speed] Fuels technology breakthrough (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:16:24 -0700
- My oldest son, David, who was there in the picture with the original Road's End Gang in 1986, is working as a mechanical engineer for a solar company no one has ever heard of. (They are pretty secret
- /html/land-speed/2008-07/msg00177.html (8,124 bytes)
- 273. Re: [Land-speed] De-salting revisited (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:35:29 -0700
- Interesting idea, Dave........ With a bit of advertising help from BNI and other "connected" folks an entrepreneurial person might be able to make a few bucks out of a project like that. A big SUV or
- /html/land-speed/2008-08/msg00081.html (8,479 bytes)
- 274. Re: [Land-speed] Stone woods and Cook Gasser... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:17:22 -0700
- Don Garlits was a fantastic innovator and had supreme drag racing skills, not only in the driver's seat but throughout the operation of a drag racing team. The top fuel dragsters were what turned dra
- /html/land-speed/2008-08/msg00130.html (9,137 bytes)
- 275. Re: [Land-speed] Stone woods and Cook Gasser... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:24:13 -0700
- The pasties were great. So was the noodle casserole. Oh yeah.......so were the people there. Great big upper to see ya all!! Thanks Jon and Nancy....... Ed Weldon Maybe cooked 16:05:47 out time... i
- /html/land-speed/2008-08/msg00135.html (10,366 bytes)
- 276. Re: [Land-speed] Skids and Spins... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:21:30 -0700
- Good idea, Mayf....I hope more people than you and I will be interested in this subject. Sumner; you listening here? Ed Weldon (snip) In the next few monhs I am going to try and develop a ___________
- /html/land-speed/2008-09/msg00011.html (8,081 bytes)
- 277. Re: [Land-speed] NON-LSR ENGINE STUFF (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:06:59 -0700
- Have you got decent compression? Another thought is to try Weldon's Miracle Method for procrastinating on lawn mower tuneups. --Starting fluid-- Sounds like the timing is retarded. But I'd expect a m
- /html/land-speed/2008-09/msg00018.html (8,377 bytes)
- 278. Re: [Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:56:58 -0700
- Thanks, John. This is good stuff. Ed Weldon (snip) _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailm
- /html/land-speed/2008-09/msg00041.html (7,703 bytes)
- 279. Re: [Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:46:28 -0700
- Go on Landracing.com, Bonneville General Chat, for a good commentary posted today by Lee Kennedy. Ed -- Original Message -- From: "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com> To: "Skip Higginbotham" <saltrat@pahrum
- /html/land-speed/2008-09/msg00067.html (9,043 bytes)
- 280. Re: [Land-speed] Hans Device and Safety (score: 1)
- Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:01:18 -0700
- This is probably a bit early to start arguing the minutia of the future decisions on head an neck restraints; but I couldn't help but do a little counting of records from the 2008 rule book. My count
- /html/land-speed/2008-09/msg00072.html (11,508 bytes)
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