My name is George Mitchell and I live in Washington
DC.
I used to live in beautiful Austin Texas where I met
Skip Higginbotham. Me ,a life long drag racer,somehow
Skip convinced me that the cool thing to do was to put
a high gear in my drag car and go to Wendover. Alas ,I
never got the chance then but I do have the chance
now.
I am building a new car based on on a 924 Porsche .
I have started a back half of the car with a small
tire and have all the pieces to lower it put a 9 inch
rear in it and go racing!
Here is the issue . I have a bunch of early hemi stuff
(desoto) and I am collecting hot rod stuff for it . I
can get some chrysler parts ( 392 ) but I want to run
the small motor and run in D/MS.Run it on gas first,
then injected alcohol, then blown injected alcohol
with some pop. Skip suggests that that I forget the
whole thing and just put a destroked chevy in the car
and let it eat. Fabrication is not a problem on the
motor (ie intake, grind the crank for chevy jounals
,etc ). The bottom line is I know what to do with the
motor but will it be competitve in the long run ? I
am anxious to get out there but as you can see I am
trying to go fast in kind of a different way...
Any thoughts ???
Any Parts ????
Thanks a lot and I am looking forward to meeting as
many of you as possible in April on the east coast and
August on the west coast.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net>; <V4GR@aol.com>;
<landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; <dahlgren@uconect.net>;
<Land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: cut-off switch
>
> I absolutely agree that the switch should be in a
> standardized location. Rule out where it
> sholuldn't be, and there are only about two
> places left. It shouldn't be on the top, either
> side, or the bottom of the car, since any of
> those could be the "bottom" in an emergency
> situation. The car is not likely to stand on
> it's end, so that leaves the front or the rear of
> the car for a location. The rear seems to be the
> obvious choice. I think the type of switch
> should be left up to the owner, as long as it
> makes the tech inspector happy. The pull rod or
> cable on a knife switch is nice and simple, a
> manual master switch if your battery happens to
> be in the rear works well, and the constant
> service solonoid works good too. It should be
> clearly marked in bright colors like yellow and
> black or red with big letters that say
> "pull-off", or an easy to read direction arrow
> with "Off" marked.
>
> - Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net> wrote:
> > Lets try a thought here on this Switch.....
> >
> > The purpose is to aid the Safety crew should
> > they need to shut down the
> > Vehicle in trouble. and Since I have trained
> > bunches of Fire departments
> > in the art of Shutting down a helicopter I know
> > that Training folks up
> > front is a Critical thing in an emergency
> > situation. All the tags and
> > Labels in the world won't make up for the lack
> > of a Standardized location.
> > So Like the NHRA it's my thoughts that dealing
> > with this as a Safety issue
> > The Switch needs to be in a single location....
> > and I am going to go
> > further and state that It really needs to be on
> > a single spot on the car...
> > not just a generalized area.
> >
> > All that having been said and listening to
> > everyone's thoughts... How bout
> > we combine all of this by using a Constant Duty
> > Solenoid in the area of
> > choice but have the Master Battery switch be a
> > simple light gage wire to
> > where ever you mount the solenoid? I am
> > currently using three of these on
> > my car and they work great.... This isn't a
> > Starter Solenoid though it
> > looks just like one.... but this one is
> > designed to remain in the on
> > position once it's energized....
> >
> > Just my thoughts.... Keith
> >
> > ----------
> > > From: V4GR@aol.com
> > > To: landspeedracer@email.msn.com;
> > dahlgren@uconect.net;
> > Land-speed@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Re: cut-off switch
> > > Date: Monday, February 07, 2000 11:59 AM
> > >
> > > On my Vega my batteries are in the trunk and
> > my switch is mounted on the
> > > panel between the rear bumper and the
> > trailing edge of the deck lid. When
> > I
> > > mount one on the roadster it will be
> > similarly located. I understand Jack
> > put
> > > a pull handle on the rear of his liner
> > connected to a knife edge switch
> > > mounted near the batteries. Rich Fox
> >
>
> =====
> .............................
> ..........Dick J.............
> ......(In East Texas)........
> ....FX/GMR SC/P250-2........
> .....Shelby 427 Cobra.......
> .Hemis and Flatheads Forever.
> .............................
> Do You Yahoo!?
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