- 161. Re: Coast Down at Bonneville (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:52:51 -0600
- OK. I did and I'm now ready for "Coast down" calculations. Thanks Mayf. And Joe and Russ Skip (I hear that young guys don't have short term memory problems?????) /// unsubscribe/change address reques
- /html/land-speed/2003-01/msg00997.html (8,386 bytes)
- 162. Re: Hydrogen question (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:48:35 -0600
- Probably the fabric cover of the airship. /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archi
- /html/land-speed/2003-01/msg01096.html (8,155 bytes)
- 163. Re: Aero Testing (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:28:46 -0600
- John, I believe that coast-down will give you much more than a wind tunnel. All you get in a tunnel is the aero component of drag. Coast-down gives you all of the drag effects at once. So then any ch
- /html/land-speed/2003-01/msg01102.html (8,321 bytes)
- 164. Re: Aerodynamics & oddballs (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:34:19 -0600
- Go for it and do the very best that you can. I, for one, am solidly in your corner and applaud you for what you do. If the addition of Pro-blend to your engine might make a difference (it will), sen
- /html/land-speed/2003-01/msg01167.html (9,355 bytes)
- 165. Latest update from the Salt Laydown Project (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:17:53 -0600
- This is copied from a note received from Gary Allen: Got a note from the BLM recently on the status of the pumping project for this year. It is now estimated that they will be able to start pumping b
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00022.html (7,467 bytes)
- 166. Re: Tubing notchers (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:14:23 -0600
- Jim, I (like Mayf) use a hole saw notcher and I also use lots of oil (with Pro-blend in it of course) I cut all the notches in 4130 tube on my liner/lakester and a dragster and pieces of a sprint car
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00033.html (8,134 bytes)
- 167. Re: Tubing notchers (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:15:27 -0600
- Jim, I (like Mayf) use a hole saw notcher and I also use lots of oil (with Pro-blend in it of course) I cut all the notches in 4130 tube on my liner/lakester and a dragster and pieces of a sprint car
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00034.html (8,132 bytes)
- 168. Re: Mig Welding (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:06:04 -0600
- Ha...The same way I shave with razor blades welded together.....how 'bout I make a hole in them with my tubing notcher......I am just amazed that someone can weld thin stuff with a MIG welder. I have
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00039.html (8,177 bytes)
- 169. RE: Ice Intercooler (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 17:19:39 -0600
- Right, temperature and dew point close together......????? At least one emergency landing due to broken carb heat linkage and one on which the jury is still out......wasn't cold outside....about 90 d
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00040.html (9,393 bytes)
- 170. Re: Tubing notchers (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:10:42 -0600
- I agree Howard, I use cutting oil with a 1:10 mix of Pro-blend and the blades just don't wear out. Power hacksaw too! If I run them too fast, however, some of the teeth break off but the ones that ar
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00053.html (9,513 bytes)
- 171. RE: Alcohol Heads On Gas? (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:14:43 -0600
- If you are going to run the engine at Bonneville or the lakes, don't forget that a 383 will get you into the bottom of "B" class.....just a thought. Skip /// unsubscribe/change address requests to m
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00055.html (8,929 bytes)
- 172. RE: Alcohol Heads On Gas? (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:02:08 -0600
- I use Mark Williams. Skip /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive/land-speed /
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00062.html (9,206 bytes)
- 173. Re: Hydraulic Throw Out Bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:56:33 -0600
- Can the car use an auto trans without the converter? Skip /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://w
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00065.html (7,904 bytes)
- 174. RE: Small diameter front tires (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:05:33 -0600
- Am I reading this wrong? If so, I'd like to think some on tiny front wheel possibilities, too! Russ Jim Have you looked into the small drag race tires and wheels ran a few years back. They might be w
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00072.html (9,391 bytes)
- 175. Re: Ice Intercooler (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:55:49 -0600
- Elon, you "snipped" my comment about dew point and temperature being close together......my point was that carb heat won't help fuel distribution and ice isn't due to low temperature alone.....oh wel
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00099.html (9,463 bytes)
- 176. Re: Ice Intercooler (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:17:10 -0600
- Thanks for the answer Elon, I am looking forward to the note on intercooler induced icing.....we get some pretty low humidity percentages at Bonneville and El Mirage so icing there should be rare. Bu
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00109.html (10,244 bytes)
- 177. RE: Small diameter front tires - some conclusions! Part 1 (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 07:25:23 -0600
- Yeah, they might but......lakester has fenders on it now (still getting them) so you couldn't see the tires anyway........ Could have been a show stopper though....let's see.....top of tire was runn
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00110.html (10,078 bytes)
- 178. Pahrump (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:26:12 -0600
- Yep!! (-: (-: they just refurbed the "houses" so that is good for business. You have no idea how much I am looking forward to being in Pahrump!!! By the way, Mayf's shop is built and a grand one it
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00137.html (8,087 bytes)
- 179. Re: Pahrump (score: 1)
- Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 08:56:42 -0600
- "Perhaps Skip could enlist a new pit crew that would be an attraction on the salt next year. LOL! I can imagine what static that would cause at home." Wes, you have NO IDEA! HHmmm.....maybe....... S
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00139.html (9,364 bytes)
- 180. Re: Parachute Release... (score: 1)
- Author: Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 09:33:12 -0600
- Is the "override" thing a new rule? I didn't find it in the current book. A good idea though!!! Mayf, Morse cable is the most positive, I think, although I use air....so far.... Skip /// unsubscribe
- /html/land-speed/2002-12/msg00185.html (10,307 bytes)
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