Of course he'll never think to check for that potato in his exhaust pipe.
That will hold his rpms down to a range where we can insult him with
British car juice in our wake. To think I used to tangle with Doug in the
Spit. Well, that's it then, Off with the flywheel and governor. Think I'll
tie a rope to him, it'll drive him nuts with that red Spit still in his
mirror!!!!!
Russ Moore
(the rebuild continues, but is progressing!)
BTW: How do they control wild, carefree and fast paced women in Arkansas?
They put a governor on them! ;-)
At 11:54 PM 4/29/98 EDT, Malaboge wrote:
>In a message dated 98-04-29 13:28:27 EDT, you write:
>
><< July seems like a long time from now, but that's a good thing as it gives
>me
> time to rebuild my good motor. If I had a tell-tale on my tach I would now
> know exactly how many RPM it takes to hurt an S800 motor. As far as I can
> tell, it is somewhere between 12,000 and 13,000 rpm. That's about what I
> zinged it to when I missed 3rd gear going onto the backstraight at Road
> Atlanta. But before I got stupid..... damn, she was running strong!
> Back to the workbench. Is anyone using MSD boxes with rev limiters and
>do
> they make one with an 11,000 rpm limiter?
>
> Doug Meis - Team Escargot.
>
>Doug-
>Can't imagine how you ended up here on this list...but...
>
>I remember the first time I heard Carson Baird, I believe, passin all the
>Spridgets comin out of the "loop" at Watkins. I thought the guy had lost his
>mind as the revs continued, and continued. I actually winced and looked
>away...until he did it again the next lap! Somewhere I have a picture of the
>car and the tach...redlined at about 14,000. I've toyed around with a few of
>them, but they never "stuck". A few years ago I ran across the sole surviving
>vestige of my "Honda" years, a very nice grille with the turn signals in it.
>Can't remember if it was a 600 or an 800 (I think 800), but if you or someone
>you know would like it, it's available for shipping expenses.
>
>Turning Japanese, I really think so...not
> Nick in Nor Cal
>
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