Well Bud better then spinning them on the salt First Pass..... and least
it's not the Block and the rest of it..... you will get it done...
We freshened up the Old Cast Iron D motor and I preped it last night as a
spare Bullet....... Explained to Dave that it was ready today...... His only
comment was " Cool that means we can lean on the Rodeck a little harder
outta the Box " Classic Dave.... ( course he went on to explain what
happened when we tried to sneak up on stuff and wore out our motor by
playing around with system's that didn't work....)
Edlebrock is loaning us a quick data system for Bonneville this year and we
are going to get some interesting data outta the air ride as well as all the
other little stuff..... like Oil Temp.... water temp.... O2 sensor and map
sensor's in the air box...... as well as the 8 egt's.... amazing system
really... looking forward to seeing it work to help us tune the car.....
( Leave it to Dave who own's a company called Engine management system's to
come up with a way of figuring out how to circumvent the drivers feedback )
Now to wire all this stuff up in ONE day..... LOL thinking I got me a LONG
day ahead tomarrow...... Life IS good.....
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>
To: "LAND-SPEED" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: Thrashing!
> List,
> I know most of you are loaded or loading cars & trailers for the big
> trip. Many have been going nuts just waiting to go. I have an answer for
> all that time longing to get going.
>
> I wait until the last minute to get everything ready and then I am
> working right up to the wire, so no time for waiting on time to pass. I
> said in a previous email that things were on schedule, well all that has
> changed. I had the engine on the dyno yesterday with good news and bad
> news. The good news is that on the first pull we had 545 HP @ 7000 RPM,
> a full 30 HP more at that RPM than our dyno test last year. The bad news
> is that on a couple pulls later we had spun #3 and #7 rod bearings. (I
> had put it together with the bearings with the old bearings, they looked
> good, but alas, never again. The status now is that everything is apart
> again, hope to get the crank ground Monday, put it together Tuesday,
> back on the dyno Wednesday and hopefully leave here a day late on
> Friday. Oh well, maybe I am still on schedule for me. See you all on the
> Salt.
>
> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
>
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