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Bonneville Salt Flats Discussion => Bonneville General Chat => Topic started by: TURK on August 19, 2016, 10:26:52 AM
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congrats
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The crew of the Bockscar Lakester 1000 thanks you.
John
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I can't get run results past Wednesday so I surmise a new record for Boxcar? What were the details? You guys are quite amazing and have given Boxcar superior heritage.
John
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Way to GO GUYS :cheers:
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Well, I have been somewhat preoccupied but want to pass along a Hearty (perhaps not what I should be talking about right now) Congrats to Stainless and John Boy.
I actually tried to find You in the pits but I tried to get directions from Pork Pie and It went sort of like this: "das West of der shmitten dorf Germany ein der brewski" or something close to that.............. O.R.B., out............................................
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :roll: :mrgreen:
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Well, I have been somewhat preoccupied but want to pass along a Hearty (perhaps not what I should be talking about right now) Congrats to Stainless and John Boy.
I actually tried to find You in the pits but I tried to get directions from Pork Pie and It went sort of like this: "das West of der shmitten dorf Germany ein der brewski" or something close to that.............. O.R.B., out............................................
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :roll: :mrgreen:
Well, to my surprise I could understand your far north west "English" (far better than this in Alabama.....ok....you can't compare this) but I have trouble to read what you think is maybe German....and finally, when you asked me at the salt....for myself I had no idea where they will be in the pits....they showed up very late that evening.....
and yes, I'm very happy how John Boy succeed finally with a nice 218 average on a 194 record.....great job....
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I think their pits were mostly in line waiting to run. :-P
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That where we did most of our minor stuff :-D
Congrats guys!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thanks everyone. It was a hell of a week. I am happy that we pulled the plug on Thursday after the record run and cleaned everything and went home, car and motor intact, on Friday. We are going to bring the bike next meet and the car back for the better salt at the finals.
John
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We do generally pit in line unless we have a lot of work to do... like after a SPIN... :-(
My thanks go out to Kiwi Paul who listened to us and helped us progressively run faster on our damaged tire. The course marker rebar managed to peel some of the rubber off of the inside edge. We did a tire inspection after each run and worked out way up the speed ladder. When our new tires arrived a day late (thanks FedEx for the free 2 day instead of the overnight we originally paid for) racing was almost over. KP was impressed with the toughness of the tires, and how heavy duty they were when he looked at the new ones while we were finalizing the record in impound. The 213... mixed well with the 224... for a nice 218... We decided the course was rough enough we didn't need to punish Johnboy or the Bockscar any further.
It was the best course for the salt we had, thanks SCTA for the tireless effort you guys put into making a racing week.
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Stainless....I learnt alot. Glad we were able to make a plan and have it work. The sample you sent me is very interesting! I am going to try to get some of those tires out of my contact at TraversAFB but we will see if that transpires...Hope your health is improving. I am still fighting some residual stuff from mine, but Shop Work is piling up, and I have to get after it.....
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Johnboy flew in for a little work weekend....
as I mentioned, we had a little issue with a tire and course marker anchor during the spin at SpeedWeek. That required some (read a lot) of discussion and cooperation from Kiwi Paul to be able to keep racing.
So now we need to put new tires on and the old one will become the spare. We could not find anyone locally that still shaves tires, and not sure if Nate could shave an 18 inch, but there is no time for that anyway, he is across the country.
So we are making a small mess in my shop... hope this link works
it didn't... standby
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Nope - the link didn't work for me. Try, try again. :cry:
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Lets try this one....
https://youtu.be/1qRdu210Z9A
:cheers:
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Gittin' er done! American ingenuity at its finest..... :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
Gregg
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It's a dirty job but someone has to do it :cheers: Hope to see everyone next week on good salt.
John
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Your tire shaver doesn't look near as exciting as the "skillsaw/rowing machine" tire shaver posted a while back.
See you in a few days, Don
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Well, we finished shaving that set of tires, then shaved another set with a different profile. The tire profile depends on the profile of the one you start with, if you don't follow the original profile, you will find the fabric in the fabric tread.... and as we all know, everyone thinks that is the cords and it scares them that we are on the cords. So unlike the tires everyone is used to seeing on the car, our new sets are not showing any fabric. I just hope we get the same tire longevity out of these that we got from the previous set before it met the rebar... about 15 years. :cheers:
Here is a video of the second set getting cut
https://youtu.be/pbVRZz6SSEQ
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Aha. Now I get what you described to me, Stainless. Much Informed, I am.... :-D :roll: :-o :cheers: