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Misc Forums => NON LSR Posting => Topic started by: smitty2 on February 28, 2009, 04:55:39 PM
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Hey all!
I asked this question in another thread, but in keeping with the rules I'll post it here instead... Other than Ron Mains Flatfire what is the fastest recorded speed a Ford powered automobile has run? I'm not picking on Ford people... I'm just curious.
I am really a twin turbo Yugo fan, but I have been playing with a Chevy 4 banger out of an old Gillnetter lately.
Smitty :cheers:
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Mickey Thompson's Autolite streamliner supposedly had a 425 mph time slip but rain washed away a return run. Not sure if that's true or not. That car had two 427 SOHC engines one supercharged the other normally aspirated.
I don't know how fast Ermie Emerso went with his four engine (406ci. ea.) streamliner.
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January 12, 1904, Henry Ford set a record for fastest land speed when he got his 999 up to 91.37 mph on Lake St. Clair in Michigan. The lake was frozen at the time; otherwise, Ford would've set the record for fastest automobile sinking time.
Slim,
Can we all come up and race in the winter? :-)
Tom G.
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Tom - Sure, you'd be very welcome. I don't think the ice is very good, though. We got another 12 inches of snow Thursday night through Friday suppertime. The official season total at the National Weather Service station near Marquette is now 216.5 inches. All of that snow keeps the cold air from getting down to the ice on the lakes, so they're often slushy and not as strong as one might want for racing. I guess you could go out on the lake and plow a long stretch, let it sit for a few cold nights, then go for it.
Drive carefully. Yesterday, during the whiteouts that we were having as the "blizzard" blew in -- a pair of county road commission sander/plow trucks crashed into one another. Decent damage -- they were traveling in the same direction and the one in the rear evidently couldn't see the twenty feet in front to notice the other one -- hit it in the left rear - and the right steer tire/axle/suspension was torn off. The cab was pretty well crushed, the sheet metal was bent all to heck, and the "Peterbilt" badge was scraped off the hood. Pretty impressive.
Still want to come for a visit?
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Tom - Sure, you'd be very welcome. I don't think the ice is very good, though. We got another 12 inches of snow Thursday night through Friday suppertime. The official season total at the National Weather Service station near Marquette is now 216.5 inches. All of that snow keeps the cold air from getting down to the ice on the lakes, so they're often slushy and not as strong as one might want for racing. I guess you could go out on the lake and plow a long stretch, let it sit for a few cold nights, then go for it.
Drive carefully. Yesterday, during the whiteouts that we were having as the "blizzard" blew in -- a pair of county road commission sander/plow trucks crashed into one another. Decent damage -- they were traveling in the same direction and the one in the rear evidently couldn't see the twenty feet in front to notice the other one -- hit it in the left rear - and the right steer tire/axle/suspension was torn off. The cab was pretty well crushed, the sheet metal was bent all to heck, and the "Peterbilt" badge was scraped off the hood. Pretty impressive.
Still want to come for a visit?
I'll borrow the Zamboni from the Milwaukee Admirals, and we'll have a track faster than you can say "High Sticking". :-D
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What class would a Zamboni run in? Are 'chutes required?
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Okay... Fastest Ford powered Zamboni?
:cheers: :-D :evil: :mrgreen: :-P :cry:
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A Zamboni would have to be either in production or a streamliner -- because they're four-wheel drive. They (mostly) run propane fuel (because they're indoors -- diesel would smell funky and gasoline is too dangerous), so wouldn't that put 'em into fuel class? I don't think they're turbo-ed. Tires are usually studded -- might be a problem getting Z-ratings with studs.
Next question?
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Would we be able to get one of those as a divot filler on the salt? Somebody ought to check it out!! Minus the studs, of course!!
Lynda
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Okay... Fastest Ford powered Zamboni?
:cheers: :-D :evil: :mrgreen: :-P :cry:
Only because you asked for it. :-o :-o :-o
Tom G.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CxrLUQ74w
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Those are guys who know how to have fun! :-D
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"Cool" video! :roll:
It's a Wolf in Zamboni clothing. And it is Ford powered.
Thanks... I guess. Smitty
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Just think how fast those little potholes would get filled up!!! I want one!!! YEEEE HAWWW!!
Lynda
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The current fast Ford may be the Don Nuss streamliner, car 485 at 315 + Single 429 style motor and all wheel drive.
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Is this "Ole Don" the guy that runs the welding service, on the left side of 101 as you're heading north, just past Northcrest Drive and right before Parkway?
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That be him :-D
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I believe this is the fastest Ford ever:
(http://reedbrothersdodge.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/catting_a_ford.jpg)
Yeah, I'm a Bowtie guy. :-D
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bfb_1181177723 willie buchta
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I believe this is the fastest Ford ever:
(http://reedbrothersdodge.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/catting_a_ford.jpg)
Yeah, I'm a Bowtie guy. :-D
I know we don't want lift in LSR but...............
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Funny Willy!! :-D :-D
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As I recall the Mickey Thompson twin engine Autolite streamliner ran over 425mph in some test runs
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As I recall the Mickey Thompson twin engine Autolite streamliner ran over 425mph in some test runs
2nd post.....
Mickey Thompson's Autolite streamliner supposedly had a 425 mph time slip but rain washed away a return run. Not sure if that's true or not. That car had two 427 SOHC engines one supercharged the other normally aspirated.
I don't know how fast Ermie Emerso went with his four engine (406ci. ea.) streamliner.
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I don't believe it...A French catapult that worked...................