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Re: Rear end Updates

To: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Rear end Updates
From: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:06:30 -0600
Jim, List

If you have to run the pinion speed really high (like 14 or 15K)......don't
forget Pro-Blend!!! It makes the oil stay on the bearings..does it at lower
speeds too!
Skip


At 12:55 PM 11/13/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>    It's not just the power requirements that make a 4.88 bad it's the fact
>that you have to overdrive the pinion so much to get a usable ratio. If you
>put in a 2/1 QC set to get a 2.44 ratio you get 14,00 RPM at the pinion gear
>at 7,000 RPM in high gear. It's really hard on the bearings.
>Jim in Palmdale

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