Goals and objectives are how successful folks live thier lives...
Getting the Red hat is just a Step on the way to a life time of racing at
bonneville.... The Next Goal is already in the works... with the Glass front
end for the bugeye sitting next to Miss Kathy's Bugeye in the shop.... the
Goals are already starting to mount.... I can see this thing sitting there
with a Twin Turbo'ed Rodeck and EFI.... on Nitrous.... OUCH... nevermind...
lets get that Red Hat First and maintain a degree of focus...
K
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
To: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: nitrous
> Afraid I just stayed on it to long. Had plenty of piston thickness as it
> burned the week link...ring lands instead. Should have gotten out of it
> sooner and turned out, but things just happen so fast it's hard to react
> quick enough. You have just got to have it right in the first
place...right
> equipment and tuning...with nitrous or your gonna spend lots of EXTRA
money
> putting blown-up engines back together...if there is anything left to
> reassemble.
>
> My personal goal is to set a new E/FCC record. The 225 MPH number has been
> sitting there for 10 years. It's not soft, but its doable...our 218 MPH
run
> through the middle mile shows that..., and I want it.
>
> Ya know Keith, after you get that red hat there are still plenty of goals
to
> keep a guy coming back for a life time.
>
> John Beckett, LSR #79, E/FCC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
> To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 9:41 PM
> Subject: Piston information
>
>
> > Just a follow up on some Basic Don'ts of Nitrous Pistons... On the
Motor
> > Tear down I found Two Major Problems... First Tom... your exactly
right...
> I
> > burned a Piston rather then Fracturing it.... I did in fact Fracture
> several
> > other Pistons ( based on stress cracks in the Top of the piston catching
> my
> > fingernail ) but the basic cause was the Piston Thickness under the
> Exhaust
> > Valve pocket... Dave gave me a neat way to check them.... but after
> reading
> > the Spec sheet from Ross... I already understand that we took off .060
for
> > Valve clearence and we started with .116 under the exhaust valve....
there
> > by leaving us Just a Tick Less then the .125 minimum for Nitrous...
OKAY
> > ALOT LESS.... .056? so it's my idea at this point that we were about to
> > smoke this hole in the Piston anyway due to the Lean condition of the
> Motor
> > Prior to the N2O hit and finally got the Piston to blow through when I
hit
> > the button... No the Retard issue isn't going to let me off scott
free....
> I
> > still messed up and very probably caused this thing to fail
absolutely....
> > rather then just burning the hole in the Piston... Who knows.... it's
all
> a
> > guess.... I am just sharing what I learned... and Trust me I am sharing
it
> > with my motor builder... he has a couple of lessons in this .... but I
> still
> > have Blind faith in his ability over mine.... Next Year I am going to
> build
> > my own motors... This year I still need to count on someone else...
> >
> > Fun stuff.... Keith
> >
> > Dave's Idea to check the Piston dome's thickness is to set a small rod
> with
> > a pointy end in a vise and then set a Magnetic stand up with a dial
> > indicator on top of it.... set to Zero....then fish the Piston in
between
> > the two and measure any point on the dome.... See Dave you can't trust
me
> > with anything you don't say not to Tell....
> >
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