not flaming I was smiling when i wrote see you one the salt in August for a
cold one.. Hey did you do the scoop we talked about?
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Tone [mailto:gmc6power@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 1:24 AM
> To: ENGINE SYSTEMS; Keith Turk; land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Potentiometers...? ( who cares how it's spelled )
>
>
> Ouch Dave!!!! I understand what your doing, I was just putting a little
> humor into it for the group. As for my trans we are planning on
> running the
> 1.20 off the truck up no more than 4000 rpm and sticking it in 1.1 as fast
> as possible. With that big gear, 32" tires and 80% in the tank I want it
> pull itself with it's 4" stroke and not ever break loose the
> tires just like
> last year. The only option will be if it quits pulling like it
> did on me my
> son will yank it into the .96 overdrive.that should be at the 4
> mile sign at
> about 215mph.
> Subject: Re: Potentiometers...? ( who cares how it's spelled )
>
>
> > It is cheaper to datalog the run and figure out what went wrong or needs
> to be changed to find some more speed than it is to put 100 passes on the
> car and wonder what to do. It is good to see you acknowledge the
> need for a
> transmission though. i can remember when you thought they were not needed
> and 1 or 2 gears was more than enough. Data acquisition is like a dyno for
> the car. Every time you run it you learn something and there is no opinion
> involved as to how it did or what it did.we are attempting to
> work a car up
> in speed to some fairly serious numbers and want to make sure it will not
> fly when we get there. We also don't want to crank in so much down force
> that the tires or suspension has problems either.I assume you run a couple
> of gages in your car. How many can you read at once? And remember
> what they
> read at what point in the run and what their relationship to each
> other was?
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