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Re: Bonneville plans

To: "White, J D III" <J.White@cptbelts.com>, <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Bonneville plans
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 23:47:39 -0500
Jack... I'm kind of doubting much sand bagging on this one... we've already 
set the record at 251mph or so only to loose it to a paper work snafu...

I'm fairly sure if all goes well we'll be running in the 260's again on that 
record...

Have you thought about an A or a AA motor?

Keith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "White, J D III" <J.White@cptbelts.com>
To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: Bonneville plans


> Keith Turk wrote:
> Well we're about there with our plans for Bonneville this year... Ted Wenz
> has the driving chores for speedweek running on the C/FMS record and Tonya
> might get an opportunity to work on her C/GMS record afterwards... We have
> even ended up with a back up motor.
>
> Keith,
> Do you think you could wait to run the C/F motor until World Finals, or at
> least cut three or four spark plug wires to level up the playing field?  I
> think we might get our car running on at least 5 of the 8 cylinders before
> WOS comes around.  That would be a big improvement over last year.  By the
> way, since you are also a Berkeley owner, would you have any advice on 
> where
> to mount the mast for a wind sail if we don't get our motor running any
> better?
>
> Jack White
> C/FMS #671






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