content22207 wrote: >At small southern dirt tracks most people race very simple hopped up >domestic blocks (is a fellow in town here racing scratch built car >with a Ford 141 -- Pinto motor). Are specific rules for cubic inch >displacement, NOS injection, etc. Have NEVER seen anything remotely >similar to your little Euro cars. With all due respects think they'd >be laughed off the track. > Think you'll find S2000 is Japanese. American cars and their fans live inside their own little bibble* as far as the rest of the world can see. Except the Icelanders who have invented "Formula Off Road" - the only motorsport I've ever been motivated to watch because it's so crazy. Makes your monster trucks look very gay. Icelandic bloke: "Look over there - a cliff. I wonder if we built a car with big enough wheels and big enough engine, could we drive up it?" Icelandic bloke's mate: And look there - a river. Maybe with the right tyres, we could take the same car and with enough speed, aquaplane across it before we sink?" Some guy walking past: "How about an obstacle course around a quarry with 80 degree walls - three-point turns and suchlike - the winner is the person who gets the furthest without rolling or flipping over or whose engine doen't blow up first?" But I digress.... * That was actually a typo - I meant to write "bubble" but it strikes me as a very good word to descibe how you waffle on <tongue in cheek> How does your friend "run vacuum"? Are we talking engine vacuum? The same engine vacuum that disappears as you put your foot down? What are you talking about? Martin #1458 #4426 Haven't written them for a while. > >BTW: This fellow is one who told me he only runs a couple inches of >vacuum and thus has no advance on distributor (and yes, I do believe >he uses MSD module for that). Has trophies all over office, so I trust >his word. > >He runs horrifically advanced timing, but also rev's 3500 to 9000 RPM. > >BTW: Have you ever noticed all the different spark retarders MSD >sells? Hmmm, what do you suppose those are for? Could it be to start >an engine that is otherwise over advanced... > >Bill Robertson >#5939 > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Unsubscribe> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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