[Shotimes] Was?Re: Shotimes digest, Vol 1 #2093 - 12 msgs
Marlene P. Bish
snowwind1990@yahoo.com
Sun, 11 May 2003 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT)
You can drive a car hard and not abuse it. There's a
difference;;;:::::couldn't agree any more!
I am a grandma......so don't make the broad (no pun
intended) assumption that all gray haired ladies don't
shift at 4K or better.....one might smoke you someday!
I often look back and think that if I had driven
Snowwind in a more gently manner that he would have
lasted longer.....I couldn't be more wrong, as time
goes on and his endurance proves itself..the theory of
"drive it like it was intended" is obviously the way
to go.....If the secondaries are there, use them.
Old lady, Old car....but no carbon out the pipes at 5K
shifts thank you.
Romp on 'em daily for long life....However, one BiG
Note here......................Snowwind only has used
3 clutches at 316K.
Marlene..
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> 5. RE: Re: Was ? Now Abuse? (Jacob Cassidy)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> To: "'Paul Nimz'" <pmnimz@V8SHO.com>, "'`V6
> SHOtimes'"
> <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Drag Day at US 41
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:49:20 -0400
>
> "Normal" 10% alky fuel is only about a 6% overall
> BTU loss over straight
> gas, which still is a loss, but better weather and
> such can make up for it
> at the track. This is the stuff that's been around
> for years, but I still
> tend to avoid it most of the time. I occasionally
> get and occasional tank,
> mostly in the winter, to absorb any water/moisture
> hanging around in the
> tank.
>
> The "nasty" stuff is the straight RFG, or the RFG
> derivatives like Summer
> gas. The "oxygenate" percentage is a bunch higher
> than 10% between the
> alcohol (eth or meth) and some other stuff that gets
> thrown in. Poking
> around the EPA site awhile back didn't give me much
> info, but I know from
> seat-of-the-pants, drivability and fuel mileage that
> the stuff is bad news.
> The Summer gas isn't as bad as the RFG I had to live
> with in Chicago and
> Louisville, but it's close (and the exhaust smells
> just as bad!).
>
> Ron Porter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Nimz [mailto:pmnimz@V8SHO.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:28 PM
> To: Ron Porter; '`V6 SHOtimes'
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Drag Day at US 41
>
>
> I have alky fuel all year long. Unless you use
> Casey's regular from
> Illinois or Mobil which doesn't seem to have any
> ethanol in it. Doesn't
> matter to me as I get just as good of runs on the
> 10% as I do the straight
> stuff.
> All my runs in the 14s have been on a 10% alcohol
> fuel mix. No RFG fuel
> down here other than that tainted with corn
> squeezins.
>
> At US 41 on a typical Sunday I got 15 runs in 3
> hours before noon and the
> brackets. Only on Saturday night is it packed.
> Most runs are all back to
> back but I usually take a 1/2 hour break in there
> some time.
>
> Paul Nimz
> '97 TR SHO
> '93 EG mtx SHO
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> To: "'Paul Nimz'" <pmnimz@V8SHO.com>; "'`V6
> SHOtimes'"
> <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:17 PM
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Drag Day at US 41
>
>
> > It's a matter of playing the odds. Even if it's
> cooler than the normal 70+
> > degrees at the end of May, the chances of the
> barometer being low and the
> > humidity being high are pretty good.
> >
> > Plus, the Detroit area, as well as many other
> major areas that don't
> already
> > run RFG year-round, start getting Summer gas in
> June which extends through
> > September. This is an immediate power loss. I know
> that Chicago has
> > year-round RFG, plus IL seems to have most of the
> alky fuel all the time,
> so
> > you are behind the 8-ball all year!!
> >
> > One large advantage of renting the strip is the
> advantage of getting a lot
> > of runs in a short time. This is also one of the
> big advantages of our
> > "local track". Garber & Staley had both discovered
> that their (former) Gen
> 2
> > and (current) Gen 1 (respectively) run better when
> they do consecutive
> runs
> > and are hot. My '95 OTOH does not. Dave also found
> that the '02 Maxima
> liked
> > consecutive runs. This is impossible to learn at
> the typical dragstrip
> where
> > you are lucky to get one run an hour.
> >
> > Ron Porter
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> > On Behalf Of Paul Nimz
> > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:42 PM
> > To: Ron Porter; '`V6 SHOtimes'
> > Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Drag Day at US 41
> >
> >
> > Well I'll do my best to bring in some 14s.
> >
> > Paul (have seen more than a few 50 degree days on
> the 4th of July in
> > Illinois) Nimz
> > '97 TR SHO
> > '93 EG mtx SHO
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> > To: "'Paul Nimz'" <pmnimz@v8sho.com>; "'`V6
> SHOtimes'"
> > <SHOtimes@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:57 PM
> > Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Drag Day at US 41
> >
> >
> > > Except for one year in Raleigh NC, I've lived in
> this area (MI -
> Chicago -
> > > Louisville) my whole life. Plus I've been a
> drag-racing-conditions
> > observer
> > > for probably 30 years now. Half of the secret to
> good times is picking
> > your
> > > conditions (which a lot of people don't seem to
> understand....nor want
> to
> > > understand). Much like the near-perfect
> conditions we had last
> > > weekend.....and why we aren't racing again until
> late September.
> > >
> > > Ron Porter
>
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