[Fot] Assault on the Salt. Seth McGee and his TR3

[Joe Alexander]

Kas and I have following the efforts of Seth, during his preparations for Bonneville.

See text below.....interesting stuff, even with the delay.

Joe Alexander

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Seth Mcgee" <sethmcgee at mvn.net>
> Date: September 13, 2013, 1:31:45 PM CDT
> To: "Kas Kastner" <kaskastner at gmail.com>
> Cc: n197tr4 at cs.com
> Subject: Re:
> 
> Kas, Joe
> 
> Unfortunately, Bonneville was canceled until next year due to rain; however, there happened to be a wind tunnel in Ogden, so I put the car in a wind tunnel instead. It worked out well. I was able to fine tune the aerodynamic mods. It was interesting riding in the car during the test. The car pitched and vibrated as if I was driving it. Although I have to wait a year, I will be totally prepared. 
> 
> Partial implementation of the aerodynamic mods, windshield installed and the engine/gear box bay exposed(that part of the under shield was attached adjacent to its center line location for the trip) yielded a %17.53 improvement in fuel consumption.
> 
> Thanks again for the assistance.
> 
> Mike
> 
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Kas Kastner" <kaskastner at gmail.com>
> Sent: 8/26/2013 8:16:14 AM
> To: "Seth Mcgee" <sethmcgee at mvn.net>
> Subject: Re:
> 
> Here is a photo of Hardy Prentis TR-3 when he won the Nat'l Championship.
> 
> Never be beaten by equipment.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Seth Mcgee <sethmcgee at mvn.net> wrote:
>> Kas,
>> 
>> The car is almost complete for Bonneville except for some last minute aerodynamic enhancements. An aerodynamic consultant has recommended an air dam like on a Nascar for the front of the car. It would add 2.5 square feet to  the car frontal cross section. I looked on the internet and saw no TR3's configured that way and I am not anxious to change the appearance of the car from that of the original TR2. Does this recommendation make sense? The car has a full under tray.
>> 
>> Mike McGee
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20130913/86b523e6/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Bonneville 7.jpg
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 795278 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20130913/86b523e6/attachment-0006.obj>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Bonneville 8.jpg
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 1201844 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20130913/86b523e6/attachment-0007.obj>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Bonneville 3.jpg
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 1057573 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20130913/86b523e6/attachment-0008.obj>