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RE: TR3 Frame (and other) work

To: "'kas kastner'" <kaskas@cox.net>,
Subject: RE: TR3 Frame (and other) work
From: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 09:06:13 -0700
Might be a little Peyote. 

Had some great racing this weekend at the Columbia River Classic. I fought a
nasty miss on Saturday and Sunday, the car was dropping to two cylinders
down both straights unless I feathered the heck out of the throttle. Still
finished second. I learned that Peyote is fast just from momentum alone.
People wondered why I was staying on the track with the engine running so
ratty, but I kept thinking it was going to clear out. 

I fixed a dozen things, from low fuel pressure to a goofy looking
Peertronics unit and a bad distributor cap, but the problem persisted.
Finally Tony Garmey graciously let me borrow the Mallory distributor from
Bill Hart's Devin Triumph (he was stuck in Florida) and the problem
disappeared. My big challenge now is how to build a suitable catapult to
launch that Lucas POS as far as possible. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of kas kastner
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:40 AM
To: Mike Jackson; Henry Frye
Cc: Larry Young; fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: TR3 Frame (and other) work


  Though I dearly loved my TR-3, saying that equally prepared & driven 
cars, the TR-3 is faster, is a result of maybe eating funny mushrooms or 
simular enhancment product. The wider track alone will kill'ya.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Mike Jackson" <grandwazoo@earthlink.net>
  To: "Henry Frye" <henry@henryfrye.com>
  Cc: "Larry Young" <cartravel@pobox.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
  Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:16 AM
  Subject: Re: TR3 Frame (and other) work


  > yea, TR3's handle better!  Right!  narrower track.  mystery steering 
box.  As
  > in, it's a mystery how, or whenever this thing works.
  >
  > Must be the sleek, aerodynamic body style.
  >
  > And, I think George Wright wouldnt agree with the premise that his TR4 
is
  > slower than any of the TR3s that were at VIR this summer.  He only made 
a
  > driving error in the damp or he'd have finished many, many seconds ahead

of
  > the next TRanything.
  >
  > mike jackson
  >
  > Henry Frye wrote:
  >
  >> At 09:12 AM 09/06/2004 -0500, Larry Young wrote:
  >> >The fastest TR3's in the country are faster than the fastest TR4's, 
which
  >> >suggests they can be made to handle better.
  >>
  >> I can't believe we are letting Larry get away with this comment!
  >>
  >> ;-)

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