Heck, for those cars with little frontal area, we could mount the bottle so
that the fill neck is pointing backwards, heat the bottle like the bike
people did, then when up to speed knock the neck off and instant thrust!
Sonic Boom?
mayf (the rocket scientist AND 486 user!)
At 05:10 PM 5/22/00 -0600, Joe Amo wrote:
>OK list here is a CHALLENGE: Rich wrote "some time age I got a 500HP plate
>from Ron Hammel. Never had
>the fortitude to try it" and it dawned on me, the perfect scenario to
see the
>outright wheel driven record broken, for good maybe, Jack Costello, are you
>listning???????? We need to see what we as a list can do, to get
Jack to
>bolt it on the little motor going into the streamliner, turn it down to
100hp
>and start making passes, (after the other record is obtained), Team Amo will
>supply the refills !!!!!! Only problem I see, is that you will have to
>pressurize the intire car with the nitrous, as the average N20 bottle
exceeds the
>frontal area of Jacks car, so this scenerio is better the more I think
about it,
>Jack wont need alot of fortitude, as long as he keeps inhaling, (have to have
>Rich's nitrous on board), and if he has a misshap it wont hurt, for a while.
>Joe (I think my bottle is leaking) Amo :) :)
>
>V4GR@aol.com wrote:
>
>> For what ever its worth I have had no problem buying medical grade N2O. It
>> says for use of a licensed practitioner only. I showed 'em my "A"
license and
>> away I went. Bought in large bottles the stuff is much more reasonable. On
>> this subject, some time age I got a 500HP plate from Ron Hammel. Never had
>> the fortitude to try it. Keith or others, I will gladly box it up and
ship it
>> to anyone who promises to try it at Speed Week 2000. Rich Fox
>
>
>
>
L.E. Mayfield
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Madison, Al. 35758-8171
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