Landracing Forum
East Coast Timing Association => ECTA General Chat => Topic started by: JoeRider677 on March 22, 2011, 09:30:10 AM
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I'm a total newbie, just joined last fall and will be attending my first meet this April. My primary business in commercial real estate and my facility is very near the flight path of Willow Grove. The Navy has declared the base "surplus" and they runway is expected to have the big white X placed in the next few months. I have been watching the Land Reuse Authority (LRA) VERY closely as their actions and what happends with the base can have a great affect on my business. The runway is 10,000 feet from end to end and has been well maintained. I'm a little partial to getting events at Willow Grove. I am in the ear of the LRA on a regular basis. The idea for using the strip for racing purposes has been brought up by a number of different people in the community for a number of purposes.
Interest / pressure from as many sources as possible may be able to make something like Land Racing possible there. I created a website for people to post their opinion on the internet. reusethebase.com REGESTER and POST. I am doing everything I can to stay in the ear of the LRA
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Where exactly is Willow Grove NAS... maybe you should get this info to the ECTA officers
Joe Timney and Keith Turk
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Where exactly is Willow Grove NAS.
Just north of Philadelphia, PA and west of Trenton, NJ.
Geo
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Willow Grove is 8000 feet long...too short for a mile run...BUT, one could run a Kilo event!!! Any interest in that???
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Willow Grove is 8000 feet long...too short for a mile run...BUT, one could run a Kilo event!!! Any interest in that???
that would be really cool.... It really would be a drag race ... can I put the wheelie bars back on ?
Roy
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Willow Grove is 8000 feet long...too short for a mile run...BUT, one could run a Kilo event!!! Any interest in that???
Joe a kilo event is to short for my Studebaker with the E motor,,
but I could run the Vicky with the C motor !
I am game for any events (East of the Mississippi) to support the ECTA or LTA or LSR in general.
Any travels West of the Miss has but one destination..."THE SALT"
So back East,,, build it and we will come race there.
Charles
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us little guys . The ones playing around 100 mph could use that.
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I would very likely participate there in the kilo if it didn't conflict with other lsr events in the region. If we measure our speeds in kph I might just have a shot at a 200 club hat! :-P
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There's some history here (almost). For a number of years the SCTA conducted 1/2-mile drags (.87654?K) on Riverside Raceway. When we bought our roadster, it had previously chucked off its harmonic balancer in the lights at one of the events.
Stan
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"If we measure our speeds in kph I might just have a shot at a 200 club hat!"
There's the right attitude! The 200 should be adjusted for length! That's the only way we'll get one of these Merlot thingies.
Stan
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There's some history here (almost). For a number of years the SCTA conducted 1/2-mile drags (.87654?K) on Riverside Raceway. When we bought our roadster, it had previously chucked off its harmonic balancer in the lights at one of the events.
Stan
Stan that is some cool history,,, do you have any pics or articles from back then ?
Charles
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I would very likely participate there in the kilo if it didn't conflict with other lsr events in the region. If we measure our speeds in kph I might just have a shot at a 200 club hat! :-P
Milt how many MPH's is 200 kph ? maybe the Vicky can do it,,, I have been 126mph in the 1/4 mile in second gear with the Vicky so in the Kilo I would make it to high gear possibly over 150mph.
Charles
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124mph is 200kmh
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There's some history here (almost). For a number of years the SCTA conducted 1/2-mile drags (.87654?K) on Riverside Raceway. When we bought our roadster, it had previously chucked off its harmonic balancer in the lights at one of the events.
Stan
Stan that is some cool history,,, do you have any pics or articles from back then ?
Charles
I wasn't there :-o Photographed at Bruce Geisler's:
(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee171/4-BarrelMike/Miscellaneous%20stuff/SCTAHalf-MileTrials.jpg)
That's a mirror at the bottom!
Hmmm, 400 pixel height limit. Larger direct view: http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee171/4-BarrelMike/Miscellaneous%20stuff/SCTAHalf-MileTrials.jpg (http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee171/4-BarrelMike/Miscellaneous%20stuff/SCTAHalf-MileTrials.jpg)
Mike
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I was there. Notice the four dates on the poster. Winter month fill ins. Really cold in Dec. at Riverside though.
DW
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Regester for REUSETHEBASE.COM voice a real desire and I will push as hard as I can to get something going with the Horsham Land Reuse Authority. I have been in the ear of my local state representative, and the congressman for the reigon is regestered on the forum also.
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By the by, also regester for www.hlra.org to keep an eye on what's going on there
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Really cold is only relative DW. :-D :-D :-D
Could be fun.
Those of us with Canadian KPH speedometers just multiply by .6 for a fast and relatively accurate MPH reading.
Pete
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OOPS!
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That would be kool 124mph = 200kph. maybe an almost green hat? I could skip across the river and visit some long lost relitives. BTW it's not that bad a drive from NC. I-95 is the highway and the speed limit on it. :-D
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"I-95 is the highway and the speed limit on it." Hunh? Not on the parts I've been on. I don't know if we ever got over about 50 mph. Traffic -- way too much of it.
And then, for the folks with US speedometers, most likely the speedo in the car/truck is marked in both miles and kilos/hour. Sit down in the seat, look for the 200 k -- and right next to it will be the mph equivalent. No math required.
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Mr. Slim, sorry I was referring to the section that runs through the wide open south down here in Carolina. It's been a long while since I've been to the northern reaches.
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Unh, no -- we didn't go south -- but got on directly east from Maxton and drove into central VA. There were some stretches where there wasn't a lot of traffic, but mostly it was pretty crowded.
And then -- we're not fast on the highways and byways, anyway - so maybe you would have decided to go faster than we were moving. Whatever. . .
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This would be a great facility if it could get worked out. Easy access off of I-95 and PA Turnpike. Plenty of places to eat and sleep very close to this facility. Currently being used so the asphalt is in good shape. The facility has always been very well maintained. :cheers:
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Sounds great, but we would have to pass. The way our bikes are built now we are not making power till 1/4 mile mark. I don't think gearing would overcome it. May come watch though.
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Thanks to the people that have posted on reusethebase.com area politicians are signed up and watching. the more exposure the better chance