Ok John,
While I side with my brother as far as- "if you're gonna go- go all
the way", and I realize not everyone can afford to run what they'd want to (
I can barely afford Blown Fuel), I repeatedly see guys that go out of there
way just to get a record. For me, an official record is little more than a
piece of paper. There are a lot of guys who build AWESOME cars and run in
tough classes and never get records, but a guy who stumbles across an easy
record with a so so car gets all kinds of recognition. To me, this belittles
the guy who's giving it his all to have the fastest ride he can build.
Now my brother and I argue this with my father all the time. He
points out that some guys are trying to prove how fast they can go with a
Vega engine, or a Pinto engine etc.. OK, that's not my thing, but if that's
what you're into, knock yourself out. Where I have a problem is when I see a
guy take a hemi, and remove 4 rods and pistons, put bobweights on the crank,
back off the rockers, and ground out 4 of his magneto leads just to run in a
lesser class. To go out of your way to go slower just to grab a record
defeats the purpose of racing. My theory is to go as fast as possible with
what you've got. I could have stepped my engine up 9 cubic inches and run on
a record that's 22 mph slower, but I had a class B engine, so that's what
I'm running. If I had the cash, I would have AA motor and run against a 290
mph record. Why you ask? Because for me it's not about proving how fast a I
can make a dump truck motor go, it's about building a machine to go as fast
as I possibly can. Believe me, the first time I hurt my 431inch Rat, I'll be
building a 600+ inch tall deck !
Darrell Ferguson
BLACK RADON ENGINEERING
# 939 BBFALT
http://my.cybersoup.com/blackradon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Beckett [SMTP:landspeedracer@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 4:32 PM
> To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: LSR
>
> Dave Dalghren this is your Que.
>
> Seriously this is part of what is so cool about LSR. Lots of different
> ideas, designs and ingenuity. You won't find it in any other form of
> Motorsports. Not everybody is an Al Teague, and want's to go 400 + MPH.
> Which is why we have classes for Pinto engines. The goal of one racer may
> be
> just to se if they can get 700 HP out of one of those little Fords. The
> challenges of LSR are varied and exciting. I can't get enough.
>
> John Beckett
> ECTA & BNI record holder
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com <dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com>
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 3:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Studebaker
>
>
> >personally, i wouldnt be caught dead racing a pinto engine at one of the
> >entire worlds fastest places-what a contradiction to me, engines this
> puny
> >are made for shopping mall parking lots on a sunday morning - come on
> guys,
> >there are no limits out there on the salt, this is blue flame territory-
> >why not go as fast as you can with the most power you can get your hands
> >on. why screw around with these dinky engines when for the same cost you
> >could have a chevy / ford / mopar v-8 or similar more power oriented
> engine
> >with twice the power, christ, these things must be wound out around the
> >first mile marker, and the cost to get any worthwhile power at all out of
> >them must be pretty high . i think driving one of these would be just as
> >exiting as driving something powered by a potato battery from a sixth
> grade
> >science experiment , with a little added noise.
> >
> >doug ferguson
> >black radon engineering
> >
> >
>
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