[elky] Re: Target 550 update
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 07:12:13 -0600
Very cool, and harder to do like that than it looks. Can you say 'anal' ?
Sure you can. I am a jeweler and I can't imagine bends like that. You could
feet a small town in Africa with the scrap metal from the heap I would
produce.
JC
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While Doc Freud (photographer and press rep) and I were keeping our pipes
> from freezing, the guys at the Skunk Works were doing plumbing of their
> own...well...on the liner. Air lines, oil lines, fire suppression system
> lines...all sortsa stuff...even a coupla oil filters that I hear tell
> weren't exactly inexpensive...but they sure look kool. Nothin like yer
> basic Fram spin-on filter, that's for sure. The phrase, "stacked thousand
> dollar bills" was the way they were described to me.
>
> All of this is in an update called, "It's all plumbing." Check it out.
> http://www.target550.com/gallery/74_its_all_plumbing/index.html
>
> Every time I do an update on this site (and it looks like we're gonna have
> 2 per week all month cuz Freud's feelin like a jolly old elf...you can
> subscribe to this thread and be notified of posts and updates:
> http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,6400.new.html#new) I'm
> amazed at the grace, beauty and craftsmanship going into this liner. When
> ya think that it's intended to go so fast that about all anyone is gonna see
> is a blur, it's kinda mind-boggling. Yeah, the high-quality work has to be
> there for the goal to be achieved. It's a whole different ball game on the
> salt compared to any other kind of racing. Ya watch top fuel drag racers
> and they make pass after pass (ok, so they rebuild the motors in between)
> but little mistakes get made and races are still won. In NAScrap racing,
> the teams can blow 2 or 3 pit stops, the car bounce off the wall and then
> still come back to win with a few "carefully placed yellow flags" and
> "speeding penalties" for the competitors. But in LSR, well...I can't start
> to enumerate the times that one little thing has gone awry and the run is
> aborted...even if it's the last run of the meet. It all has to work
> perfectly...sorta like doing stuff in outer space.
>
> So the quality and reliability has to be there, as does a lotta forethought
> in the design so that salt demons don't creep in and screw up the works. In
> 09, a British team brought a streamliner over and didn't even get to the
> salt before giving up. They tried to make it work on Highway 93 that runs
> from Las Vegas to Wendover. They had the "misfortune" of picking a time of
> year when there were lots of rain showers in the desert and for a team from
> Jolly Olde England, where it rains 2/3s of the time...well, they blamed all
> their problems on moisture in the electronics. After a week of paying the
> Nevada Highway Patrol to keep an eye on the road so they could test if they
> ever got it running, they packed up and went home. So Marlo Treit, the team
> principal, has decided that electronics will be kept to an absolute minimum
> on the liner. That's the reason for so much air-actuated stuff...or one of
> 'em, anyway.
>
> Even with the requirements for build quality and reliability, these guys
> still create stuff that looks like fine art. Looks like, hell, it IS fine
> art...just made to go real fast instead of hang on a wall.
>
> Ok. I ramble. But it's still real kool stuff.
>
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