Now that I have recovered from Doris washing my mouth with soap I will open it and convert
fantasy to reality. Hume had the car just about done by New Years. Marlo had a bug that kept
him near the commode so early one morning Korey, Dickie and Glenn the next door neighbor
hooked up the trailer and at Oh Dark Thirty headed to Hume's. 16 hours and 600 miles later
the projectile was back in it's stall. Both drive units were removed and inspected while the car
was at Humes. Since returning the drive units have been reinstalled.
Marlo also told me that there will be some mods made on the carrier following the things that
they learned at WOS. The plan was to just keep the carrier attached to the truck and pull it to
the far end. this didn't work nearly as well as was hoped. Had to go too slow. So the new
procedure is to leave the carrier in the trailer, move truck and trailer to the big end. The carrier
will be in position to turn the car around when it's record return time. Those discoveries are what
made those two events and the four runs so important. The heads are off of the engines. Nothing
serious with them. I have no idea what progress has been made on the blowers. I was told that
Les Davenport has devised a plan to guarantee reliability with the Whipples. As soon as it warms up
enough to communicate with Les I'll give you his answers.
Thanks for your interest.
FREUD