Knew you two were up to No Good.... If your quiet ... you gotta be Busy...
Thanks.... K
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> From: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com
> To: kturk@ala.net; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Cc: dfergus@bactc.com
> Subject: Re: Hey Darrel... Doug
> Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 8:59 AM
>
> hey guys, just finished a new tooltray and valvetrain organizer that sits
> on top of the motor during teardowns, and added port nozzles in the
> manifold, right now darrell is installing a new keith black gear drive
and
> re-degreeing the cam, we werent a big fan of the engineering on our pete
> jackson unit so we tossed it, also installing a new RCD cam driven pump
> drive and offset mag drive so that now the mag is sticking out the front
of
> the motor now . were also stepping up to a MSD pro mag 12 and keeping our
> mallory mag as a spare. were a little concerned about internal heat
> generation in the new mag because of its high amperage on a long duration
> run at the salt vice drags. talked to MSD tech and they said its
borderline
> for a 12, but should be ok. in the meantime were considering a carbon
> dioxide fire extinguisher style purge on the mag in case it runs too hot,
> and keep the resistance down for a hotter spark. trying to locate chauvin
> emmons' number so i can ask what mag setup hes running on his nitro motor
> and how much internal heating he gets (if anyone has it handy - thanks
> !!!). were also upgrading to a third fire bottle for a total of 21 lbs of
> cold fire on board. im flying out to thrash with darrell on friday and
> investigate fabbing up some new carbon fiber front wheel wells and also
fab
> a second backup spoiler if we run in altered class to meet the new year
> 2000 rulechange- . also looking into switching the front coil springs to
> adjustable coil over units. also we'll be melting some lead this weekend
> for more ballast, and installing a fresh lexan windshield and some
> additional graphics, and taking some measurements to modify our backup
oil
> pan . got our fingers crossed for bonneville AND a possible late summer
> blast at maxton with some 2.86-ish gears depending on the usual work/
> vacation/ family/ and financial situation- see you at the salt in a
little
> over 100 days- take care all, trash like mad- doug @ black radon
> engineering
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