I guess that the next item is "Where is the redline?".
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At 12:46 PM 8/31/01 -0400, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: finally home after B/V
>Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 12:43:23 -0400
>From: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
>To: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
>CC: Rose & Terry Hunt <hunt@Kuentos.guam.net>,land-speed@autox.team.net
>References: <20010831153646.92144.qmail@web12507.mail.yahoo.com>
>
>Name me the sports car driver that is successful without a tach or shift light
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>If the car went faster it is because it finally got shifted at redline rather
>the number the owner would rather use thinking about what it will cost to
>fix if
>it breaks....
>I've been racing way too long to believe that story :>)
>Dave
>Dick J wrote:
>>
>> I just shifted when
>> > the motor when it sounded right. The run was
>> > very smooth and didn't seem much
>> > faster than last years 200 mph. I was shocked
>> > to see a 227.5.
>>
>> You might think about never running a tach again.
>> Some of the best dragster and sportscar race
>> drivers ever did not use a tach. I know of at
>> least two multi record-holders on this list who
>> do not use a tach.
>>
>> Dick J
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