interesting conversation.... don't have an intelligent opinion.. I am
simply sitting back enjoying ..... kinda like the four engined deal in BRN
last month... interesting... Nice place to sink a cool twenty grand if you
got it to spare....
I think I will stick to the Camaro...Keith
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> From: V4GR@aol.com
> To: MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Final drive
> Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 3:52 PM
>
> The plan is Al Liest has incorporates 6:71 blown cad northstar
> engines. Al has an engine building shop here and built the 302 in Jack
> Costella's liner. If you look at Jacks car you will see that the engine
not
> the driver is the largest thing in the car. And Jack also mounts the
motors
> with the crank centerlines about 4 inches below the rear axle.
>
> Al seems to be thinking of 4 motors and 4 wheel drive. He
> says it depends on dyno figures the Cad motors develop.
>
> The point
> here is to get the drive up to the axle centerline. Jack uses change
gears
> and a fwd axle and an angle drive. Al wanted to use an angle drive and
blower
> belts. Locomotives and very large dump trucks use Diesel electric drive.
> Electric liners with lots of batteries run at salt. Very heavy.
> Al has run two sprint car teams
>at
> the same time. He has a jr. fuel digger now. He has a large well equipped
> automotive machine shop and a nice dyno. Some good people working for
him,
> maybe it will happen, but I'm not holding my breath. R. Fox
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