Yes, even though I've not been to the 5th mile I am aware of these
realities. Guess I was "hoping against hope" (or wishing in one hand .
. . .) that someone with more experience might have an answer.
Thanks again for your time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Weldon [mailto:23.weldon@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:43 AM
To: Adin, David
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net; b.a.savage@wildblue.net
Subject: Re: Fw: Oil stuff/dumb questios
David --
I've been in the 5th mile twice under near perfect driving conditions
(thanks, Doug) and had the bandwidth to check the tach and both gauges.
But
how often can anyone expect to have it that way? Besides, oil pressure
bounces around. Do you have any good knowledge to correlate the amount
of
drop in pressure with a danger point? Me neither..... You'll never
kiss
the record if you lift every time the oil gauge wiggles....
I'm pretty certain that when disaster strikes it will come at you too
fast
for a useful driver reaction. In the fraction of a second that it takes
you
to react the engine will turn a similar fraction of 100 revolutions.
The bottom line here is really to cover as many possible failure points
with
good design, construction and operational practice so the driver has a
minimum of variables to be concerned with. So I'd say if CW says "dry
sump"
then get ready to groan over the cost of the hardware.
Ed Weldon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adin, David" <DavidAdin@mercydurango.org>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 6:25 AM
Subject: RE: Fw: Oil stuff/dumb questios
The one question that remains: will there be enough warning (low oil
pressure) before the big bang.
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