Hi David,
Several years ago at Encounter quite a few of the attendees got to drive
around the track at Pocono in PA. Since Nascar cars probably do over
200mph there it would seem to be a good place to test one's Healey. I
rode around with someone else who was trying to obey the rules that were
laid out beforehand about not going too fast. I know that quite a few
of the cars did go quite fast, some mentioning over 100 mph.
Is there anyone on the list that would 'fess up to how fast they did go?
Charlie
'62 BT7 tricarb
davidwjones wrote:
>Nobody asked for the BT7, But I'm gonna tell you anyway! :-)
>
>About 30 years ago, when my car was a great deal more beat up than it is
>today, -and I was less beat up than I am today....
>I had had the car for about a year, and took it out to the longest straight
>anywhere in the area. -It's the only time I've ever decided to "see what she
>could do" ...top speed wise. For what it is worth, on the std speedo, after a
>loooooong runup, I got an indicated 107 mph. With the badly worn shocks it had
>at the time, the front end was extremely light, what I called "skate" ...and
>it was an experience I was not eager to repeat.
>
>That was with the roadster top down, and with unmodified ....anything. --The
>car at the time though had twin HS6 carbs on it rather than the appropriate
>triple HS4s. -The car was properly tuned always back then, event thought the
>car was rough. ---Bear in mind too, that at the time, the car was lugging an
>appreciable amount of rust and bondo.
>
>These days, fully restored and returned to the triple HS4 configuration, and
>with properly rebuilt shocks.. The car is more fit for such activities,
>however I'm not nearly as eager to test it's limits (in that way). I cannot
>however resist flogging it down twisty roads.
>
>I'm figuring that with TWO carbs, it hit somewhere around 107 mph....... so
>with 3 carbs.....(quick calculation here......) the new top speed is 210.5
>mph.........Right? That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. --Since I have no
>plans to do empirical testing anytime soon.
>
>David W. Jones
>'62 Mk II BT7 tricarb
>Cumberland, RI USA
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