I've read that a Corsair could stand on one wingtip if the throttle was advanced too quickly on takeoff. That was a big radial engine swinging a huge prpellor. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ --Original Me
In question #8 do you mean "dry weight"? Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ Well, here I go again. Same subject a different tangent, though. If I had data, lots of data, then I would try and do something with
14 degrees of caster sounds like way more than you really need but who knows? My car has a 98 inch wheelbase and is set up for 7 degrees of caster in the front end, with close to zero camber and <1/
Our Ordnance Detachment's Executive Officer, CWO R.B. Love, once had the world's record for peeing out of a moving Jeep. It meant about as much as some of these "World's Records". Regards, Neil Tucs
The old Porsche 911 that used the Bosch injection system used a cold- start injector into the plastic plenum. It was not uncommon for the thing to backfire and blow up the plastic plenum-- mine did.
I had a Chevy 6-cyl that I rebuilt about drive me crazy. It wouldn't idle at all and only ran if held above 2000RPM. It turned out the distributor cap and rotor were not aligned properly; the spark
It isn't as much fun when it isn't a race car-- is it? Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ Ok, got to spend the entire day messing with the truck. Had some help form another ford guy. We found buried under nea
Check the distributor rotor / cap phasing. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ I spent 17 hours this week end with another guy and we made some very good progress on the truck. Itseemed that everything we touc
An ill- tempered Rottweiler might work. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ --Original Message-- From: land-speed-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:land-speed-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of drmayf Sent: Thu
That's the road this is going down. Anything deemed "too dangerous" is going to be effectively banned. George Orwell was wrong on the date; it wasn't "1984" it is "2009". Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ I
Here is a link to some pictures I took at Speed Week. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31713&id=1406019916&saved#/album.php?a id=31713&id=1406019916 Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ ____________________
Rich-- say it isn't so! Anyway I just posted some photos on Facebook but they should be visible to anyone, even without an account there. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31713&id=1406019916&sav
Wow! Thanks, John. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ D BFS Poteet & Main Speed Demon 299.744 319.739 366.627 394.346 401.285 _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.ne
I think this will work without a Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31713&id=1406019916&l=e18f3aab49 Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ I can't get to see them even after I created an acco
I'll attach two photos of 788. Please let me know if the e- mail system deletes them. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ Hi guys I'm looking for pictures of 788 Nebulous Theorem III Seems my camera can't take
Thanks for all the hard work you put into this, Jon. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ --Original Message-- From: land-speed-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:land-speed-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jon
Good ol' Prestone has corrosion inhibitors in it but I don't know what they are-- sorry, Mayf. Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ Well, it is Miller time here at the Mayfield Ranch and compound in Pahrump. How
I use XP and it would take a lot to get me to switch to a newer operating system. Upgrading is supposed to be painless but inevitably there will be a problem recognizing some hardware, and new drive
When I bought this computer I did not specify much memory-- only 512K RAM. Over time this system has gotten slower and slower-- to the point of exasperation. After cleaning out a host of temporary f
That was a great video-- thanks, Wes! Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ Hope you can open this link. This is our friend James May in a U-2 at 70,000 feet. Wes _______________________________________________ S