- 61. Re: Fw: records (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 00:57:32 EDT
- To set a record at El Mirage you must belong to one of the SCTA member clubs. Your dues in one of the SCTA mamber clubs listed in their rule book also includes your SCTA annual dues. Membership in on
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00266.html (7,186 bytes)
- 62. Re: FW: Sunoco fuel at Bonneville (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:55:15 EDT
- /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00700.html (7,014 bytes)
- 63. Re: Buick, Nostalgia (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 23:40:00 EDT
- Lance, Mel Tull, from Atascadero, CA (central Calif lower Salinas Valley) showed up at the Salt during the late 80's or early 90's with a Buick Straight 8 powered XXO/STR and proceeded to run somethi
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00171.html (9,049 bytes)
- 64. Re: Buick 8's (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 11:41:43 EDT
- List member "Hayseed Dave" has run partners with Wayne, so he would know how to contact him. I actually believe that the Buick powered lakester was owned and driven by Don Wheeler, another "Hayseed"
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00185.html (7,774 bytes)
- 65. Re: Buick 8's (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 13:11:13 EDT
- Jon, I'm not sure. My recollection was that it was a 6 cyl. but I could be wrong..........Ardun Doug /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00189.html (7,391 bytes)
- 66. Re: Buick, Nostalgia (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:49:01 EDT
- Rich, As I recall it was a 3-window coupe body with the top cut off, thus the suicide doors. Prolly a 32-34......Ardun Doug /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00202.html (7,842 bytes)
- 67. Re: Blower Restraints (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:21:42 EDT
- Phil, We went through the same thing with our blower motor. The biggest problem we ran into was getting the blower restraint attach plate that goes between the blower and the injectors. Nobody that I
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00534.html (8,546 bytes)
- 68. Re: #34? (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:25:50 EDT
- Keith, Am I having a "Senior Moment" or wasn't Ron Benham's old Crosley sedan the one that Earl Wooden did a 300 MPH "Whifferdill" in at the salt a year or two ago, totaling it? The only other left-c
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00535.html (7,597 bytes)
- 69. Re: Spark question (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 23:29:35 EDT
- Can't hurt anything, Rich.................Doug King /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team
- /html/land-speed/2003-05/msg00536.html (7,461 bytes)
- 70. Clem TeBow (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 12:58:51 EST
- Just got word from Monte Osborn (#75 XXF/GMR) this morning that Clem TeBow will be undergoing emergency colon surgery this afternoon at a hospital in the Sacramento-Auburn, CA area. For the "Newbies
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00056.html (7,746 bytes)
- 71. Re: Time to run (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:21:23 EDT
- We look at it more from a standpoint of engine longivity rather than horsepower. Making a balls-out run on cold oil is a sure way to drive over some parts. What we've had good luck with is a Moroso o
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00463.html (9,141 bytes)
- 72. Re: engine oil and coolant temps (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:19:32 EDT
- Tom, I tried the small 180 watt adhesive blanket on the bottom of the dragster pan and found the 300 watt Moroso immersion coil much better..........Doug King /// unsubscribe/change address requests
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00473.html (8,670 bytes)
- 73. Re: engine oil and coolant temps (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:58:19 EDT
- It's been done and is a workable idea if the electric heater isn't available. The Model T Ford (1909-1927) ran the engine and tranny in the same oil. This made them quite hard to hand crank when the
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00484.html (9,679 bytes)
- 74. Re: engine oil and coolant temps (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:19:38 EDT
- There were also Southwind passenger car heaters which were a Ford accessory for years, running off of the fuel system. I didn't know they were a Stewart Warner item. Wonder if they're related? This i
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00489.html (9,852 bytes)
- 75. Re: trans heat (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:01:15 EDT
- You don't have to "buzz" the engine, only run it at a fast idle with a qualified and possibly "suited-up" person at the controls. To warm the automatic tranny just put the tranny in gear and run it a
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00501.html (8,509 bytes)
- 76. Re: engine oil and coolant temps (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:52:32 EDT
- Another trick I learned from somebody was the installation of a thermostat somewhere in the pressure side of the engine water cooling system. If I didn't have a thermostat I'd have to run the engine
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00567.html (9,903 bytes)
- 77. Fwd: engine oil and coolant temps (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:07:55 EDT
- Return-path: <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com> From: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com Full-name: ARDUN DOUG Message-ID: <1a4.136c05f7.2bd96240@aol.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:52:32 EDT Subject: Re: engine oil and coolant temp
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00574.html (10,282 bytes)
- 78. Re: Wilcap (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:47:02 EDT
- As I recall from conversations with the late Clem TeBow, he advised me when I first met him in the early 80's that Tony Capanna had passed the business to an employee named Harry when he retired. I s
- /html/land-speed/2003-04/msg00592.html (7,938 bytes)
- 79. Re: #333 (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 20:50:57 EST
- I believe that the car was built in the late 70's or early 80's for Brian Burnett, one of the founders of the now defunct NDRA (Nostalgia Drag Racing Assn). The car, powered by a Ferreri (Burnett own
- /html/land-speed/2003-03/msg00126.html (8,921 bytes)
- 80. Calling Jack Costella (score: 1)
- Author: ARDUNDOUG@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:53:25 EST
- Ed Houtz is trying to contact you and either lost or never had your phone number. Contact me off the LSR list and I'll give you his phone numbers.............Doug King /// unsubscribe/change address
- /html/land-speed/2003-02/msg00177.html (6,562 bytes)
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