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1. going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:31:50 -0500; Here's a question for the list. If I run a twin engine car, with 4WD. Do I have to have both engines hooked together, at the cranks or with transfercase, or can I have one engine run the front drive; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00231.html (7,464 bytes)
2. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: ECTA845@aol.com; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:33:01 EST; John, As near as I can tell you would not need to have the engines hooked together.The Noel Black driven streamliner had the front engine mounted ahead of the front axle. Heres a PIC to wet your appe; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00232.html (7,557 bytes)
3. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:05:20 -0500; OK, but look what happened to poor Noel. Part of the reason for starting this thread is to find out what works and what doesn't. I don't see an inherant problem with his design, but maybe there was.; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00233.html (8,465 bytes)
4. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:20:14 -0500; transmissions, two differentials. The engines are turned around (face to face) and the cranks were connected. They had a fire one year and blower belt replacement was a big problem. Obviously this s; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00234.html (7,823 bytes)
5. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:21:32 -0500; transmissions, two differentials. The engines are turned around (face to face) and the cranks were connected. They had a fire one year and blower belt replacement was a big problem. Obviously this s; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00235.html (7,914 bytes)
6. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 12:56:04 -0500; The salt does not seem to be littered with cars that work better... Maybe some turbos and forget the belt deal... Dave /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list ///; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00237.html (8,339 bytes)
7. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "Mike Jenkins" <MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:12:42 -0000; Neither John Cobb's Railton or Mickey Thompson's Challenger I had any mechanical connection between the front and rear axles. Mike Jenkins /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list ///; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00243.html (7,991 bytes)
8. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: Daniel Wright <daniel.wright@genetics.utah.edu>; Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:45:55 -0700; Skip Higgenbotham's liner last year had two engines, connected to each other only by the ground. I think he plans to run a small block driving the front and a BBC driving the rear. Dan Wright /// ///; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00244.html (8,368 bytes)
9. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: ardunbill@webtv.net; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:00:29 -0500 (EST); John, "what if" due to weight transfer or whatever, and the front and rear axles are not connected, the front wheels spin more than the rear? Would this not destabilize the car, and interfere with st; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00245.html (9,327 bytes)
10. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:55:33 -0500; OK lets look at successful multi engine (non-connected) cars vs. successful multi engined (connected) cars. NON-CONNECTED John Cobb's Railton Mickey Thompson's Challenger CONNECTED Burklands Summers; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00246.html (9,155 bytes)
11. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:38:34 -0500; Your thoughts are sort of why I asked the question in the first place. As for Mickey's car. I looked at it just a few months ago. It had Four engines, clutches, transmissions and Four differentials.; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00248.html (10,245 bytes)
12. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:43:54 -0800; Regarding Thompson's 4 engine 4 wheel drive liner. The two front engines drove the the front through two quick change rear ends. The two QC'S had a axle between them as did the back axle. So each whe; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00251.html (11,509 bytes)
13. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:59:31 -0500; Wow, that must have been an interesting spool for the two ring gears on each John -- Original Message -- From: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net> To: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00252.html (12,221 bytes)
14. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "glen barrett" <speedtimer@charter.net>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:06:12 -0800; It was a engineering night mare built on the floor in his shop,but it worked. I wish I had taken pictures of the whole restoration but just couldn't go to Jim's everyday or week as I should have. I; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00253.html (13,125 bytes)
15. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: Chuck Rothfuss <crothfuss@coastalnet.com>; Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:20:47 -0500; I bet with a little modern electronics you could syncronize the engines RPM electrically via throttle position sensors and crank position sensors. With all the traction control, stabilitrac, etc, et; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00255.html (8,766 bytes)
16. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: Want1937hd@aol.com; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:41:54 EST; Hi Chuck, I just had a talk with an Audi TT owner. His car is all wheel drive, each wheel is computer controlled, and sticks to the road like glue. Bob in snow covered Connecticut /// /// land-speed@; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00256.html (7,893 bytes)
17. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "Dan Warner" <dwarner@electrorent.com>; Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 04:32:52 -0800; How about Tommy Ivo's 4 engine digger? Left pair of engines driving the front or rear wheels (can't remember which), right side engines driving the other pair. Dan W /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00259.html (7,810 bytes)
18. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: Want1937hd@aol.com; Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:57:14 EST; << How about Tommy Ivo's 4 engine digger? Left pair of engines driving the front or rear wheels (can't remember which), right side engines driving the other pair. Dan W I just looked at a cutaway of; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00260.html (8,029 bytes)
19. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "Thomas E. Bryant" <saltracer@awwwsome.com>; Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:04:49 -0800; This could, with certainty, be done. ABS technology controlling braking and wheel spin. Tom, Redding CA - #216 (single engine) D/GCC /// /// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list ///; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00264.html (8,107 bytes)
20. Re: going fast (score: 1): Author: "Mike Jenkins" <MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 19:00:24 -0000; If you were running with blown engine you may be able to drive the blower feeding the front engine from the rear engine and vice versa. This should make a feedback loop between the engines. Mike Jen; /html/land-speed/2001-02/msg00269.html (7,538 bytes)

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