Some wicked pics on that page, nice photography work! Looks like a wild ride in the Torry
Cheers, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:membersozdat_owner@;datascribe.com.au] On Behalf Of > andrew smith > Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2002 11:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 32/36 downdraft recommendations... > > > Yes its in a bike.These things are insane and so are the riders.The > downsides are that the fuel is expensive and the engines are > expensive to > build and maintain.One lean run can melt the > head,valves,pistons,rods and > cylinders.Go a little rich and they wet the plug putting out > the fire.Bit of > a balancing act getting them right depending on the air on the day and > night.The noise of them firing at idle is like someone > hitting an anvel with > a hammer.Building a motor for nitro goes against everything > you learn over > the years.Nitro loves a low reving long stroke engine.The > longer you keep > the nitro burning on the power stroke the more power you > make.There's a > couple of pics of one on the link there is also a couple of > pics of one of > my favourite drag car which is a twin turboed 190 cu in ford > powered hb > torana.He drives the car like the pic for the whole 400m. > http://www.andrawa.com/wadragracing/multimedia/bennell/bennell.htm > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@;datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
