> On Thursday, August 24, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Bryan Savage wrote:
>
>> List,
>>
>> I've been waiting for someone to say something about what was missing
>> during the JCB diesel's run.
>>
>> SMOKE.
>>
>> Maybe they forgot to bring their smoke with them. Sad...
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>
> In electronics building we were taught to "tune for maximum smoke".
> As far as engines -- didn't someone say that letting the smoke out of
> the motor was good? Maybe the JCB engines used up their allotment and
> had to run without it. They did pretty well that way, too.
>
> On one of their runs I saw quite a bit of grey/white smoke spewing
> from the car -- things didn't look quite so clean then. That was
> before they linked the turbos together. . .
>
> As for smoky diesels -- I've told the story of the Phoenix' runs many
> times -- how you could monitor the progress of the entire run by
> watching the smoke trail. Shift from first to second about the one
> mile, into third at 1 3/4, and high gear about the three. Lift at the
> five. You could see each of these events from the smoke trail -- that
> is, if the smoke from launching was dissipated, especially when that
> racing semi tractor would push Carl off.
>
> I don't think they had an EPA air-quality permit. . .
>
> Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
> Marquette, Michigan
> (that's 'way up north)
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