Russ and Ray,
Gary's Monza is bright red and the exhaust used to point to the side. When
he turned it rearward, he picked up 10 MPH....when blowing to the side,
it's like more frontal area......I don't think that Gary's car ever had
turbos on it....maybe later??? The reason for the front exhaust is because
the structure of the car would be compromised if the exhaust went down at
the rear of the engine. The need to cut out structure would cause this.
Never heard of "saltsweepers" or the rationale below.....(-:(-: but then my
short term memory is getting worse and worse......now where was I?????? Oh,
now the added aero devices are removed and except for the rearward pointing
exhaust and a different rear spoiler, the car is pretty much back to where
it started. Gary's son Mike ran 213 in it last week. Straight as a string.
Skip
At 10:27 AM 10/20/2003 -0600, Ray Buck wrote:
>At 11:19 AM 10/20/2003 -0500, Russel Mack wrote:
>>Ray:
>>I think the Monza you were looking at was Gary Allen's. If so, the header
>>arrangement is leftover from a former turbo setup.
>
>I see. That makes sense, based on the length and convoluted shape.
>
>On the landracing.com site, it's listed as Cohn - Clark - Bradley - (maybe
>Allen truncated?)
>
>
>>Skip Higginbotham (who shares projects with Gary frequently) explained to me
>>that-- some time ago, Gary was having trouble getting the car to respond to
>>steering inputs, so they thought it might help to blow-away the loose salt
>>(thereby improving CoF). Gary has made several other handling mods since
>>then (including that big front air dam), so I don't know if there is a
>>definitive answer as to how much the saltsweeper collectors helped.
>>
>>If Skip is paying attention to the list right now, maybe he'll correct any
>>errors in my memory of this and/or add further info.
>>
>>I remember the Caddy limo with the horns, but don't know anything else about
>>the team.
>>Russ, #1226B
>
>Thanks. I appreciate the info.
>
>Ray
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