JD
Great words from the heart.
Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Tone" <gmc6power@earthlink.net>
To: <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Cc: "'land Speed List'" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Knock sensor placement on flathead!
> If so, why? I
>>understand that active detonation control via some sort of in car emgine
>>management systen is a no-no, but data logging and then tuning to
>>eliminate that are fair game. True? Not true?
>
>
>
> You answered yourself. Temptation and connected wires. Greg answered what
> he was going to do. I am just making sure he knew.
>
> I know someday, it already may have happened, competitors will have these
> devices attached and working to control their vintage engines and won't be
> caught. Like Danica Patrick just said about drug testing, "If I'm not
> caught it must be OK". Some folks don't have a conscience if they get what
> they want by circumventing the rules and are not caught they a happy. They
> even snicker at the person trying to do it legally. I feel sorry for them
> and they will answer to a higher "official" someday.
>
> LSR competitveness is advancing everyday. I do not have the ability to
> keep up electronically or otherwise. I know how to add HP and less
> resistance to my drive train, but will I do it as others are doing now,
> probably not. I pride myself on the simplicity of the accomplishments our
> family has done with what we had. I look what is being spent to achieve
> many of the records today and think I haven't spent that in my 35 years
> and 2 race cars. Do I begruge them? absolutly not, They are now doing the
> dream they had when they were young and chose not to do. I found a way to
> "fit it in" with out breaking my bank account or spending my retirement.
>
> I have had the good luck to be competitive for a very long time but as
> those who were in the same position in the 50's, 60's 70's, 80's time
> moves on and the records they "rented" are broken by others with the newer
> advancements. One can sit back and "bitch" that the rules aren't the same
> or congratulate those who have done better. I choose the latter. One of my
> happiest moments was giving Bill Goldman his "Red Hat" for breaking a
> record I had for a couple of years.
>
> The best thing in LSR is the friends I have made the lasting relations
> with those friends. I will never spend the time I once spent in LSR but
> will run when I can. I will always treasure these frendships along with
> the "Red Hat" earned by first my son and then luckily by me.
>
> Sorry for the rant...................JD
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