[elky] Re: Target 550 update
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:43:30 -0600
LOL just caught that.
Spell check can't read my mind (dammit). Feet and feed are both legit.
JC
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, but I dunno what that small town would do with metal feet. :)
>
> r
> jus' jivin ya.
>
>
> On 12/4/2010 6:12 AM, John Christensen wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
>> r
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