- 41. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:10:56 -0500
- Hi Mike, Since this is just between us ;-) my truck's a working truck; there's always a piece of plywood laying in the back propped up on something... Seriously, if you had the flat cap and a tailgat
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00172.html (7,588 bytes)
- 42. March CW (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 11:10:29 -0500
- Hi All, Just reading the March Cycle World; some good stuff. New 998 Ducati...sure, An article on Ducati's V-4; no, not the GP motor; the 1960s Apollo, 100hp, 530lbs; just too fast. ;-) (Even better;
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00184.html (8,182 bytes)
- 43. Re: March CW (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 11:41:21 -0500
- Hi Russ, That's about what I figure. To be fair there have been some really scary V-8 contraptions over the years; maybe they are just terrified at the prospects. ;-) Also, we have to realize anyways
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00186.html (9,440 bytes)
- 44. Re: Let the Games Begin !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:22:03 -0500
- Bryan, Probably the safest place to be as long as he could trust all his sharpshooters. He did seem to have a pretty big coat on; down/kevlar maybe? ;-) Hope it all comes off safely. (Can't promise n
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00189.html (7,711 bytes)
- 45. Re: EBay item (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 12:12:00 -0500
- I guess if the salt was really, really bad one year... Cheers, Rick /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives a
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00201.html (6,953 bytes)
- 46. Re: LSR/not on wheels ... but fast! (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:41:48 -0500
- Hi Wes, Sounds great. When do they run the 'skeleton'; the head-first version? If it's on the same course I wonder which will be faster? Enjoy, Rick /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordo
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00238.html (7,969 bytes)
- 47. Re: Woman Drivers !!!!!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:25:09 -0500
- I remember on a talk show; I think it was Leno; he was interviewing someone who had undergone operations on the way from He to She ('not that there's anything wrong with that...' as they say) and he
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00299.html (8,881 bytes)
- 48. Re: [Fwd: Tell me again - - why did the chicken cross theroad?] (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:31:45 -0500
- Wes, Pigs are about the same; surprise them and they will stay quiet, become amazed by the silence, then resume once the quiet is broken, usually by one of them passing wind. Sort of like when there
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00311.html (7,680 bytes)
- 49. Re: Tech questions (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:07:11 -0500
- Hi Dick, I can see skipping gears or converters that may rob power but what advantage (other than weight/flywheel effect) would you get by doing without a clutch? Cheers, Rick /// unsubscribe/change
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00332.html (8,512 bytes)
- 50. Re: Tech questions (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:36:12 -0500
- Thomas et al, On the electric water pumps, what sorts have people run and how would they stand up to daily driving? I realize most are intended for short runs, but I have one project where I want to
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00334.html (7,838 bytes)
- 51. Re: Fwd: Fw: Be on alert (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:54:25 -0500
- The attachments were 'stripped' (I love that term 'demime', it sounds like chasing mimes out of the park ;-) but in any case I have long ago stopped opening unknown attachments, because of those low
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00350.html (12,454 bytes)
- 52. Re: Bonneville Salt Flats (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:18:36 -0500
- Dick, Hope you are up and around soon, but I hope all that titanium doesn't bump you out of the vintage class; you know; 'no modification is allowed to the body proper'...I think as long as you are b
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00379.html (8,033 bytes)
- 53. Re: Test Ride? (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:23:56 -0500
- Hi Russ, Can't help from here; snowing right now ;-) but in case he isn't watching the list, maybe check with Jim Weir; (cc'd above) On the basic question, I would guess you may be pleasantly surpris
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00394.html (10,296 bytes)
- 54. Re: DEX-Cool etc. (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:34:14 -0500
- Hi All, I had a heater core pinhole on a '97 Ford F150; just bad luck I guess. ;-( I'm leaning towards the propylene glycol coolants; I have read that they are even kinder to aluminum as well as bein
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00418.html (7,754 bytes)
- 55. Re: Dry Spray lubricant's? (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:12:18 -0500
- Hi Keith, What about rigging a cover/guard then using whatever lube you want without contamination? You can get brownie points for the safety thing too. As for dry lubes; in bulk/bigger bottles what
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00448.html (8,945 bytes)
- 56. Re: Non LSR -FW: Cricket/Salt Talks/Challange (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:49:41 -0500
- /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive/land-speed
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00588.html (8,042 bytes)
- 57. Re: (tech)sbc overbalance opinion (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:59:36 -0500
- Ducati ran across the same questions in designing their 'supermono', essentially a 90deg. v-twin with the rear cylinder off to give a single whose crank still 'believes' it is a twin. They thought o
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00615.html (9,004 bytes)
- 58. Re: Tire reliabilty, traction ,weight sensors (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:07:04 -0500
- Hi All, Not to dive into the TC thing but I have ridden some scary pickups down icy hills off-road and I'm not a fan of those anti-lock brakes. I know you weren't refering to bikes, but at speed what
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00018.html (8,463 bytes)
- 59. Re: Tire reliabilty, traction ,weight sensors (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 14:23:34 -0500
- Hi Again, Big Duh... I just thought this through; no need for high tech sensors (except to psych out the competition ;-) when, aside from being totally bottomed out, you could get the same sort of da
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00019.html (8,773 bytes)
- 60. Re: TC3 (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 17:29:49 -0500
- Not to cloud it more, but I would think that a wheel could throw up it's own rooster tail even by being pushed/pulled rather than driven, especially if there was increased downforce as well. Not sur
- /html/land-speed/2001-12/msg00032.html (8,692 bytes)
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