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RE: More newbie questions

To: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: More newbie questions
From: Ray Buck <rbuck@aros.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:27:54 -0600
At 11:19 AM 10/20/2003 -0500, Russel Mack wrote:
>Ray:
>I think the Monza you were looking at was Gary Allen's.  If so, the header
>arrangement is leftover from a former turbo setup.

I see.  That makes sense, based on the length and convoluted shape.

On the landracing.com site, it's listed as Cohn - Clark - Bradley - (maybe 
Allen truncated?)


>Skip Higginbotham (who shares projects with Gary frequently) explained to me
>that-- some time ago, Gary was having trouble getting the car to respond to
>steering inputs, so they thought it might help to blow-away the loose salt
>(thereby improving CoF).  Gary has made several other handling mods since
>then (including that big front air dam), so I don't know if there is a
>definitive answer as to how much the saltsweeper collectors helped.
>
>If Skip is paying attention to the list right now, maybe he'll correct any
>errors in my memory of this and/or add further info.
>
>I remember the Caddy limo with the horns, but don't know anything else about
>the team.
>Russ, #1226B

Thanks.  I appreciate the info.

Ray





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