Glen, Tim Rocklitzer has put doors into the sides of his lakester
because when he had a blower pop it messed up the body. He used gas tank
filler access doors from some kind of newer car. You pull them out to
look inside or put out a fire. I'm going to do something similar on the
liner. Most of the fires I've seen in landspeed racing has come from oil
pan failures. Yeah, they failed to keep all the engine parts inside the
pan. Doug Odom in big ditch
Glen Barrett wrote:
>John
>This is something I have been looking into for a couple of years. Trying to
>find a universal spring loaded door that is adaptable to most vehicles is
>part of the problem. It would require at least two per vehicle and in some
>cases more. The idea is good and well worth looking into for someone to make
>them for the racer.
>Glen
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Szalay" <john.szalay@att.net>
>To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:13 AM
>Subject: Re: Winter projects + another reminder.
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