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Misc Forums => NON LSR Posting => Topic started by: floydjer on February 05, 2009, 11:00:37 AM

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Post by: floydjer on February 05, 2009, 11:00:37 AM: ....O.K......Grandfather maybe?
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Post by: Stainless1 on February 05, 2009, 11:02:57 AM: Nope, that's the Propster...
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Post by: Dave Cox on February 05, 2009, 11:26:25 AM: what's the motor? Wills St. Claire?

I'd run it!
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Post by: desotoman on February 05, 2009, 11:38:55 AM: Anyone seen this one?

Tom G.
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Post by: 1212FBGS on February 05, 2009, 12:02:07 PM: I'm supprised blown "p" bird didn't post this...afterall he is the post whore of already known alsr facts.... hey "P" bird care to copy and paste 3 or 4 pages of info on your daddy's prop racer?
Kent
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Post by: k.h. on February 05, 2009, 12:19:51 PM: Liberty V-8 from a Curtiss Jenny?
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Post by: Harold Bettes on February 05, 2009, 12:26:10 PM: That pic is priceless! Wish that I would have had it for the book Dyno Testing and Tuning! :-D Instead I used a pic of a real live prop dyno system when mentioning "prop dynos".

Note how the rear wheels are clamped? Guess all was well until it slips the contact patch? :-o

However, it does reek somewhat of a certain proponent of propeller powered vehicles doesn't it? Perhaps from the same gene pool. :roll:

Regards,
HB2 :-)
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Post by: Robin UK on February 05, 2009, 01:44:09 PM: Quote from: k.h. on February 05, 2009, 12:19:51 PM
Liberty V-8 from a Curtiss Jenny?

Ok I'm a nerd but it's an Hispano-Suiza V8 as used in some WW1 fighters. 18,480cc 330bhp. A couple of guys over here in the UK have them in Edwardian roadsters for vintage racing.

Robin
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Post by: RichFox on February 05, 2009, 02:38:26 PM: Quote from: 1212FBGS on February 05, 2009, 12:02:07 PM
I'm supprised blown "p" bird didn't post this...afterall he is the post whore of already known alsr facts.... hey "P" bird care to copy and paste 3 or 4 pages of info on your daddy's prop racer?
Kent
I guess I should know this, but I don't. What is ALSR? American Land Speed Record?
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Post by: dwarner on February 05, 2009, 03:11:34 PM: BA57 coined that name for Absolute Land Speed Record. Out of kindness we started to use it but, he turned into anoth never run.

DW
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Post by: Stan Back on February 05, 2009, 03:21:56 PM: Robin --

That aero header is great!

Stan
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Post by: RichFox on February 05, 2009, 10:22:26 PM: Quote from: dwarner on February 05, 2009, 03:11:34 PM
BA57 coined that name for Absolute Land Speed Record. Out of kindness we started to use it but, he turned into another never run.

DW
Absolute Land Speed record?. Isn't that Andy Green-Richard Noble stuff? At first I thought we were talking about a Blown Fuel Thunder Bolt Gas Coup Nash Car entry. Then I thought in was some other kind of Nash Car entry. Then It was a Streamliner and now it's a Jet? How in the Henry J am I supposed to follow this?
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Post by: Milwaukee Midget on February 05, 2009, 11:02:09 PM: Combination fuel tank/headrest, 6x6 railroad ties for brakes, exhaust bolted firmly to a wooden floorboard - and he's wearing his safety cap.
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Post by: dwarner on February 06, 2009, 12:38:55 AM: "How in the Henry J am I supposed to follow this?"

Do you think he can? The Winter Nationals have started and he is still at home.

DW
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Post by: Robin UK on February 06, 2009, 01:24:52 PM: Quote from: Stan Back on February 05, 2009, 03:21:56 PM
That aero header is great!
Stan

Here's one with street legal headers - no, really. At least this one didn't set fire to my trousers (sorry, pants)

Robin