- 1. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:18:10 -0600
- Hi Mike, Welcome to LSR....it will grow on you quickly! I have forwarded your note to the land speed racing E-mail list so if you start getting notes from strangers.....don't worry they're not really
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- 2. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:47:20 -0500
- (Skip, the lightening is an F150 stepside, 5.4L with a supercharger. One of the mags did a fun comparison between it and a corvette when it came out ;-) It looks like it would be modified because of
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00150.html (9,926 bytes)
- 3. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 11:38:59 -0500
- I guess we are mostly dealing with the curl of air from the roof top to either the bed or bed cover. With a flat cover you get one square drop there then another square shape at the back of the tail
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00154.html (9,470 bytes)
- 4. RE: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: "Clay, Dale" <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:53:29 -0700
- That's an interesting thought, Rick. Three steps instead of two. It would be real easy to try it in back-to-back runs. Dale C. Another situation would be having the flat cap with the tailgate down. W
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00155.html (8,650 bytes)
- 5. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: W S Potter <wester6935@attbi.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:48:04 -0800
- That was the factory sponsored GMC Motorsports 200 mph truck. They tried different bed covers and found that the cover over the rear half of the bed was the most effective by far. Don Stringfellow p
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00160.html (9,803 bytes)
- 6. RE: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: "Clay, Dale" <Dale.Clay@mdhelicopters.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:04:47 -0700
- Wes, thanks for confirming my sometimes sketchy memory. I was intrigued at the time I read it but have never figured out why that worked. Maybe I'll ask our aerodynamics guy. If I find something out
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00162.html (8,343 bytes)
- 7. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: DaCudaKid@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:54:56 EST
- ok, here's a thought, is there anything preventing someone from putting ballast in the bed and it just happens to form a slope towards the tailgate? Mike in L.A. /// unsubscribe/change address reques
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00169.html (7,189 bytes)
- 8. Re: lightning (score: 1)
- Author: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:10:56 -0500
- Hi Mike, Since this is just between us ;-) my truck's a working truck; there's always a piece of plywood laying in the back propped up on something... Seriously, if you had the flat cap and a tailgat
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00172.html (7,588 bytes)
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