ONLY 93%!!!! J.D., Remember when you were only a couple ofMPH off that magic
200 mph number? (for you folks that don't knowthe car, it's a roadster powered
by a 50+ year old garbage truck6-cylinder ;-) , ) and my advice was "tip the
can" ? Well, that was Chauvin's solution....... he ran 98% on the 300 mph
runs(so he says).
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: J.D. Tone [mailto:gmc6power@earthlink.net]
Sent: Sunday, October 1, 2006 08:24 PM
To: 'Ed Van Scoy', 'Sparky', land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Nish Motor
Chauvin and I were pittrd next to each other in impounds one year. According
to Nickles they ran a minimum of 93%. We were running 70% and event though
there was an "aroma" arround both cars neither was that bad or bad enough to
complain about. Patrick always sat in our roadster with a wet wash cloth
over his nose. Chavin said my car never smeeled so good.
Both cars had there barrel valves set insuch away as to run a little leaner
on warmup because we did not have that much time. I have been arround
methanol cars that were much worse and it's always due to the setting of the
valve at idle. I hated throwing away all that oil by having it too rich and
washing the cylinder walls. Chavins engine always made a ton of HP. They
never turned much RPM either. A friend of mine has that modified with all of
his gear changes. A lot of nitro burns slow for a long time and high RPM is
tough to get naturally aspirated. I'm sure Terry had enough to get Summers
record with the big engine and I'm sorry he didn't make it...Same for the
Burkands....
> Remember..... Chauvin Emmon's crew all wore gas masks. You didn't wantto
> be
> standing too close to 3000 HP on nitro when that car litoff..........
> Ed
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