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1. Re: Battery question - not really LSR... (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 14:42:18 -0500; A dead battery with a bad cell is dead because the water in the bad cell acts like an open circuit . If you could short out the bad cell you'd have a good 10 volt battery . As the plates go from ful; /html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00037.html (7,376 bytes)
2. Favorite Tools (Vaguely LSR) (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:15:38 -0500; My favorite tools are : My computer Pocket calculator Machinerys handbook McMaster Carr catalog John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-11/msg00064.html (8,673 bytes)
3. Re Nish Motor (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 02:25:19 -0400; You can tell you guys didn't race fuel dragsters . John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00006.html (5,762 bytes)
4. Re: Timing light wires (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:21:49 -0400; I think I was the one who started the wireless timing thing a few years ago after seeing the manhours involved with laying down and picking up and maintaining 23 miles of wire 3 times a year . My fri; /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00187.html (8,361 bytes)
5. Re: Fast Lane (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:41:18 -0400; I counted the 2006 Speedweek long course runs : Sunday 145 Monday 121 Tuesday 108 Wednesday 71 It seems to me all that's needed to handle more vehicles is class stagering and maybe another day of run; /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00332.html (7,433 bytes)
6. Gyroscopic effect (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:47:12 -0400; I've always wondered what gyroscopic effect the wheels and flywheel have on a race car . To see what happened I just did a test with a gyroscope (my die grinder hanging from a string , spinning on a; /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00501.html (7,568 bytes)
7. Re: Gyroscopic effect (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:19:15 -0400; Somebody sent this quote from John Akroyd , Thrust's designer : "A lighter wheel reduces the gyroscopic forces which tend to overturn the car in extreme yaw conditions (loss of control)". That agrees; /html/land-speed/2006-10/msg00506.html (7,013 bytes)
8. Carrrillo and Betz roadster and streamliner (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:07:52 -0400; The issue of Rodders Journal that just came has 14 pages and 16 photos of the Carrillo and Bartz flathead modified roadster they ran till 1952 and the streamliner they built and crashed in 1953 . Fra; /html/land-speed/2006-09/msg00170.html (6,773 bytes)
9. Speedweek (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:54:55 -0400; Wow , Rick Yacoucci 352.999 on only 700 or so hp . If there was ever a testimonial to power/weight being the dominant factor . He gained 19 mph from the 4th to the 5th mile . John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00137.html (6,900 bytes)
10. Re: Speedweek (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:21:11 -0400; I should have added "for cars that peak well past the 5". all in the aero from; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00142.html (7,172 bytes)
11. Wheel slip indicator (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:30:52 -0400; What does anybody know about Al Teague's wheel slip indicator ? What type of John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00211.html (6,369 bytes)
12. JCB tires (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:38:29 -0400; What did learn about JCB's tires ? John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00212.html (6,113 bytes)
13. Re Tires (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:23:12 -0400; at all Joe Law made a machine that tests them under load . It's on the back of a Chevy truck with one driven by the by the driveshaft and the other pressed against it . John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00239.html (6,380 bytes)
14. JCB , How I See It (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:54:37 -0400; Hotrodding is art , it's instinctive , it comes from your heart . Art is something you appreciate more after it's gone . Engineering is something someone wouldn't have done had they not been paid to; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00288.html (7,042 bytes)
15. Bret Kepner (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:33:51 -0400; Bret is at Speedweek every year . With his press pass he sets up near the long course time card stand . John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-08/msg00408.html (6,199 bytes)
16. Patriotic Quote (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 01:31:28 -0400; "The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth." Thomas Paine (1776) " Appropriate for us Wes . Thomas Paine brought Captain Benjamine Bonneville who discovered the salt flats to america .; /html/land-speed/2006-07/msg00053.html (6,540 bytes)
17. 2.14 ring and pinion on ebay (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:31:34 -0400; 2.14 10 BOLT 7.5 Ring & Pinion on ebay . Item number: 220006343946 John Burk; /html/land-speed/2006-07/msg00287.html (6,342 bytes)
18. Calculating CP/CG (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:25:19 -0400; I hung a model of my streamliner from a wire and blew air on it and found found the CP to be at about 32% . Using the center of area may be close when a car is going sideways but not when it's point; /html/land-speed/2006-07/msg00398.html (6,602 bytes)
19. Re: Hudson Hornets (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:07:02 -0400; A friend of mine raced a modified stockcar in our area in the late 50's and also crewed at the Indy 500 . Marshall Teague who drove at Indy during that period still had his 308 Hudson motors from whe; /html/land-speed/2006-07/msg00463.html (6,557 bytes)
20. Taper question ( lathe stuff.. could be LSR ) (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:03:51 -0400; Wouldn't the tailstock end of an off-set center cut look like ( ). John Burk joyseydevil@comcast.net; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00020.html (6,683 bytes)

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