- 201. Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 09:34:26 -0400 (EDT)
- Gary, one problem I see, and I don't know the answer, is that if you steer the mc streamliner right to turn right, it wants to lean to the left, and maybe fall over to the left. So how do you steer a
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00724.html (8,900 bytes)
- 202. Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:01:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Just from the theoretical standpoint I can agree that to steer the mc streamliner right, you countersteer it left for an instant to get it to lean right, then come back to center or a little right to
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00750.html (11,078 bytes)
- 203. Re: Just talked to Jay Leno !!!! (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:04:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Dana, a number of others have said the same thing, Jay thinks himself no more than anybody else. Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.ne
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00751.html (7,562 bytes)
- 204. Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:53:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi folks, just back from a pleasant ride down through the Dismal Swamp on the 250 Ninja, where I pondered the above subject more. I see I made a mistake in my last missive about this, when I said the
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00752.html (9,578 bytes)
- 205. Re: Re:Jay Leno (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi Micky, glad to hear from someone in Dublin on this List. My wife and I visited there for a few days in 1985, and it's a very interesting place. Anybody but me on the List see the Irish film, "The
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00792.html (7,763 bytes)
- 206. Re: New Member (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:08:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Welcome, Brian, and I wish you would give us some technical dissertation on those sprint Triumphs, especially if you went into nitro with the blower. When they run the standing kilo, it gets to be mo
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00810.html (7,703 bytes)
- 207. Re: Pick up truck push bars (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:28:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Tom, on my '97 GMC 1500 pickup GM provided holes in the front frame horns to mount a snowplow or two brackets for a sturdy board. I assume your truck has the same deal. One I wish I'd known about bef
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00829.html (7,309 bytes)
- 208. Re: Fw: Motorcycle streamliners handling woes (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:27:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Gary, that's all true for the heavier bikes. Someone mentioned here recently that to steer his heavy bike, he had to consciously apply a countersteer every time. With a light bike around 300 lbs, it
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00860.html (8,962 bytes)
- 209. Re: FAO Ardun Bill,Re:Irish Motorsport scene-Non Landspeed (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:07:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Micky, glad to hear that the local authorities over there can see their way to closing a suitable public road for a day to run a bike drag racing meet. That way everybody has a fun day out either to
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00879.html (9,659 bytes)
- 210. Re: Plating risk.. (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 08:22:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Bob & List, I've followed this thread with interest. What about the chrome plated wheels on my GMC 1500 pickup? That's a pretty highly stressed, safety-critical part. Ardun Bill /// unsubscribe/chang
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00888.html (7,553 bytes)
- 211. Exploding Airbags - Push Trucks (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:53:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi Folks, somebody alluded to this possibility, that your airbag "might" deploy in your pickup if you nerf a racecar too hard with it! Now this had not occurred to me, but it definitely opens new vis
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00911.html (7,264 bytes)
- 212. Fuel Additives (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:10:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi Folks, someone mentioned 'bug juice' recently, and within the last few weeks I have been told by veterans from the '50s and '60s that picric acid and propylene oxide were used in that era as addit
- /html/land-speed/2002-09/msg00972.html (6,812 bytes)
- 213. Re: Flathead V60 in a Simca (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:38:42 -0400 (EDT)
- John, outstanding!! Loved those shop manual drawings! It's the good-old '37 Ford V8-60 all right, with an 8BA-style distributor added, and a different water pump. One of my oldest pals bought one of
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00068.html (7,784 bytes)
- 214. Re: Us at Home (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:00:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Well said, Bryan, we don't want to die of boredom. Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.net or try /// http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo /// Archives at http://www.
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00096.html (7,033 bytes)
- 215. ECTA Racers/Bonneville Records (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi Folks, just wanted to invite your attention to some outstanding records just set at Bonneville by some of our ECTA racers at the meet on right now. Congratulations to Willie Glass on his new recor
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00098.html (7,524 bytes)
- 216. Willie Glass Ardun at Bonneville (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:00:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Hi Folks, late news is that yesterday at Bonneville, Willie changed over to the Ardun Fuel Roadster class and was timed at 190.282. Don't know what fuel he was using, but I assume he will be trying t
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00112.html (7,176 bytes)
- 217. Re: Battery Question(s) (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:23:58 -0400 (EDT)
- The NAPA Marine Deep Cycle gel battery is also very, very good, very long-lasting in a total-loss setup in a race car. Much tougher and higher voltage than a common car battery. Bill /// unsubscribe/
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00149.html (7,744 bytes)
- 218. RE: Battery Question(s) (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Right on, Neil. As you say, the deep-cycle battery doesn't like high charging voltages so it is best used with no charging system(total-loss) in a race car, and re-charged with the special charger NA
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00155.html (8,270 bytes)
- 219. RE: Battery Question(s) (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:33:05 -0400 (EDT)
- It says on the top it is NOT to be charged at higher than 14.4 volts(or may be damaged thereby). So this would be prohibitive in a racecar with an MSD etc ignition and a charging system that might wa
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00157.html (8,815 bytes)
- 220. Re: 2002 Speedweek for us (score: 1)
- Author: ardunbill@webtv.net
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 09:08:57 -0400 (EDT)
- Very fine showing, Jim! Also, glad to hear J.D. and Patrick got the GMC fuel roadster into the 2 Club. He told me last year that was their goal. Ardun Bill /// unsubscribe/change address requests to
- /html/land-speed/2002-08/msg00182.html (6,798 bytes)
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