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Re: lightning

To: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
Subject: Re: lightning
From: Rick Hammond <r.hammond@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:47:20 -0500
Mike, Skip,
(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 the supercharger, and it would be
bumped up two classes in motor to A, so you would be up against normally asp. 
460s
etc.

They allow flat box caps, as well as dropped or removed tailgates.  OK
aerodynamicists; here's a question;  Which option is cleaner??

They say covers are allowed as long as they are 'no higher than the edge of the
pickup bed...aftermarket bed caps are allowed but must not allow any aerodynamic
advantage'.

Could your 'tarp or panel' start behind the cab at the top of the box and slope
down to the rear edge of the box?  (maybe a few inches ahead for a 'lip'?)  
That's
my instinctive idea as the cleanest.
Cheers,
Rick
(plain old 4.6l F150)

Higginbotham Land Speed Racing wrote:

> 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 strange! Good folks!
> Lightning? Pick-up? I may be wrong (again) but I think that you will run in
> Modified mid/mini category, supercharger bumps you up 2 classes. I don't know
> what happens, class-wise, if it comes with a supercharger from the
> factory....but I bet we will find out shortly!
> See www.scta-bni.org and www.saltflats.com for info and links. Also see
> www.landracing.com and join the E-mail list (land-speed@autox.team.net). See 
>my
> site at www.pro-blend.com if you haven't already.
> New scta-bni rulebooks will be out soon (all associations use them) so I would
> order one (see the site) as soon as they are available. If you need a rulebook
> sooner, I can send you one of my 2001 books. If you tell me what the
> displacement of the engine is, I can look up the current record.....or see it
> on my site.
> Again, welcome, and keep asking questions! There is a ton of help out there!!
> Skip
>
> At 09:56 PM 2/6/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > i have a 2001 ford lightning that i am thinking about driving in the
> > production supercharged c class i was wanting to know if you could tell me
> > where to look for the rules in that class and just some general information
> > I am a beginner at this so i dont know much about the lsr sport could you
> > tell me some good places to looke for general information,
> > Thanks
> > Mike Barkley
> > Yuma, AZ

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