- 321. Vance & Hines "Harley" Twin Pro-Stocker (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:18:33 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Russ & Folks, noted your earlier message about the V & H Harley-sponsored dragbike for NHRA Pro-Stock racing, which is described in the March Cycle World by Kevin Cameron with his usual mastery. T
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00192.html (10,342 bytes)
- 322. Re: Vance & Hines "Harley" Twin Pro-Stocker (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 10:09:03 -0500 (EST)
- Russ, it is true that Angelle Savoie is what has been called "an unfair advantage" since she is so skilled, courageous and tiny. I guess they just can't find anybody else quite like her. I'm sure you
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00199.html (10,843 bytes)
- 323. Re: Vance & Hines "Harley" Twin Pro-Stocker (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:55:39 -0500 (EST)
- Well yes, Jim, NHRA is a business first and foremost. They are thinking "ticket sales". Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00214.html (8,215 bytes)
- 324. Re: motorcycle streamliner starting (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:12:01 -0500 (EST)
- Right, I was at Bonneville in '89 and watched Dave Matson start his nitro Vincent with the rollers at the start line, the roller thing powered by one wheel of his van, driven by his wife. He got off
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00287.html (7,620 bytes)
- 325. Re: EGT stuff (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:48:05 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Nigel, can't respond to everything you mentioned, but some time back Chuck Salmen, the builder and driver of the $um Fun '34 Ford AA Gas Roadster that holds the Bonneville Record around 255 mph, t
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00352.html (7,061 bytes)
- 326. Re: non LSR quiet (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:26:26 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Bill, those are two separate slang exclamations: "struth" = "God's truth!" "stone the crows" = "Stone the crows!" = what happens when you throw a stone at a flock of crows sitting on an overhead l
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00376.html (7,168 bytes)
- 327. Re: Toe in (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:10:54 -0500 (EST)
- Jim, I set mine at a "precise" 1/8" with a tape measure and calibrated eyeball and it steers and handles right. This is with all new parts on a Ford-style beam axle made by Flatlander's Hot Rods on m
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00466.html (6,890 bytes)
- 328. Re: Ardun/Allard (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:41:38 -0500 (EST)
- Thanks Dick, that's right, Zora had an Allard about '49 I think that he put an Ardun in and raced. I believe quite a few Allards had Arduns installed, several dozen maybe. About '51 Zora went over an
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00468.html (7,448 bytes)
- 329. Re: Nitrous 101 (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:32:41 -0500 (EST)
- Hi folks, this topic of the pressure on the piston has always been an interesting one, since that's what makes the car or bike go fast! Let me throw my two cents in. My understanding has always been
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00493.html (10,838 bytes)
- 330. Re: Ardun/Allard (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:19:09 -0500 (EST)
- Thanks Doug, hope that Hemi had eight straights on it! Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00514.html (6,870 bytes)
- 331. Re: Nitrous 101 (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:10:14 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Folks, re the recent discussion, I always thought it was intriguing if not amusing that the whole output of our beloved piston engines, and the glorious sound of eight straights on an Ardun, depen
- /html/land-speed/2002-02/msg00515.html (7,902 bytes)
- 332. Four-Valve Head VS Hemi (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:08:35 -0500 (EST)
- Hi folks, wanted to take up for the Hemi design a bit here. There is at least one form of racing besides NHRA Top Fuel and XXF Class in Speed Trials (not to mention all the Chrysler Hemis that can sp
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00067.html (8,863 bytes)
- 333. Re: Anotherr race date on the salt? (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 14:38:30 -0500 (EST)
- Rich, good points. I think with any association you want to build up to a point where there's a strong solid financial basis, but it's not too crowded. Everything costs money, and you must have some
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00134.html (9,582 bytes)
- 334. Re: runway racing (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:50:09 -0500 (EST)
- Tom, many thanks for all your efforts toward getting ECTA up and running, and now for your interesting story about what it took. The history doesn't surprise me at all, after 26 years myself in state
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00196.html (7,558 bytes)
- 335. Re: Some Magazine Articles... (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:32:44 -0500 (EST)
- Mayf, that IS interesting, especially the Hall gearbox setup. Couple things jump out, I imagine this was a four-speed gearbox with the torque converter and no clutch. So, when he selected first gear
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00261.html (7,584 bytes)
- 336. The Speed Record Club (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:03:54 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Folks, after the recent prompt from Malcolm Pittwood I sent in my sub to the Speed Record Club. In no time flat I got my first issue of "Fast Facts" by airmail from England. I must say that this i
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00280.html (7,049 bytes)
- 337. Fwd: Rod Furtado (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:17:50 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Folks, forwarding this to you to assist Monte Osborn with his project. This is a sad case, Rod Furtado runs Furtado's Auto Machine Shop in San Jose, CA. He builds a lot of Flatheads, and in recent
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00313.html (9,038 bytes)
- 338. Rod Furtado (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:30:23 -0500 (EST)
- Hi folks, yesterday I forwarded to you Monte Osborn's message about Rod Furtado but it had an attachment on it that you can't open. When Monte Osborn sends me the info verbatim I will send it out. Bi
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00322.html (6,904 bytes)
- 339. Scotty's Muffler Ardun (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:49:20 -0500 (EST)
- Hi Dave, enjoyed seeing the famous Scotty's Muffler Ardun drag roadster in the February Hot Rod. I saw it back in the Nov '57 issue when it first came out, too! That was the year I graduated from Hig
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00323.html (6,864 bytes)
- 340. Ardun/Zora Arkus-Duntov Alert! (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:53:44 -0500 (EST)
- Hi folks, wanted to tell all the Ardun fans out there that there's a rumble that Zora Arkus-Duntov's biography is due out this year. For all the info, first Search on Google, when you get Google up S
- /html/land-speed/2002-01/msg00325.html (7,395 bytes)
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