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Charles: Thanks for the information. Tom

Steve: Check out ERA's web site showing their front suspension: GT front suspension layout The pictures don't give any dimensions or angles, but one photo shows how the upper arm is angled. Also, the pivots aren't parallel to the car centerline. I suppose it's an understatment to say...

Steve: There's more than one way to achieve anti-dive. And, yes, it's desirable in a road car simply because it reduces dive, or reduce the tendency of the front end from going into compression during braking. The harder the braking, the more the dive. How do you get it? Start by getting a good...

Chas: Have you made a run with your new 18-bolt heads? Tom

Following the recent incident at London Heathrow there has been a modification to runway lighting: http://www.outpost.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Z-Private/runway.gif

Looks like the cause of the power failure on Flt 28 into Heathrow may have been a computer glitch according to a Sunday Times Online article. Interesting read: Hunt for fatal flaw of Flight 38 - Times Online

Hi Mike from right up the road. You're showing up everywhere . . . even on GT40s.com! Welcome to the sight. Tom M.

John: Check out a2z Racer Gear at Retro Racer Fashion basd on Le Mans, Can Am, Trans Am

Knock-offs tighten in reverse direction of normal wheel motion, right, or clockwise, on the left (red) and left on the right (blue). Brain teaser, right?

Fran: I was at KarKraft "in the day". The vanes looked good, but came at a huge cost to us, requiring two more sets of tooling, or two sets for the front and two for the rear. The red and blue knock-offs was a more practical idea--red for left and blue for right. How is that for a political...

Jac: Brake heat soak into the wheel bearings is always a problem, unless of course the brakes are mounted inboard, i.e., Jag setup. We did a lot of playing with reducing heat transfer to the caliper on TransAm, Indy, CanAm and endurance cars such as those run at Daytona and Indy. Boiling fluid...

Re: Brake Caliper Placement Although it doesn't seem to be a factor unless the wheel bearings are marginal, calipers mounted to the rear of the spindle centerline unload the bearings under braking and vice versa with front-mounted brakes. But as Bob says, it's more of a packaging consideration...

Lynn: I have your JWA plaque on my car. I would really like one with the original goldish colored lettering. You wouldn't happen to have one? As you say, "Holy Crapola !!!!" $100 a pop, that's a bit much.

Neat and informative clip. A couple of things popped out at me. For one, note how stable the car is at speed as illustrated by the driver's hands-off in the corner at high speed. I'm sure those of you who have had their car over 100 mph will agree. Mine seems to be right at home from 80 mph on...

David: Is this defintion of a wonker correct as given in Wikipedia, i.e., Wanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "The word has developed a metaphorical usage, in which to wank or to be a wanker implies egotistical and self-indulgent behaviour. This is the dominant meaning in Australia.[5]...

It looks as though PCness has infected the whole world, from BBC and NBC to ABC . . . what's with the BC's? In the effort of the SP'rs to force everyone to be PC during this "holiday" season, the latest move to not OFFEND anyone by one our retailers in the U.S. is to market Christmas trees as...

They are hollow, otherwise we would've just plugged the drain holes.

Here's another: B-24 Galleries Artists really liked the B-24s because they provided a big "canvas." Before the guys could fly their naked ladies back to the states, the artists were ordered to clothe the girls! Check out these reproduced P-38 panels...

Jac Mac: Correct. I neglected to mention that little detail. As for Busch cars only turning left, they do run a few road courses, so different engines are usually used. Another detail of interest to note are the Jesel Dogbone roller-lifter guide-plate studs and spacers between the lifter bores.

I forgot to add the picture. Notice the vents/standpipes in the lifter valley and screens in the corners for oil drain-back on this block prepared for Busch racing. The photo is from page 144 in "The Racing Engine Builder's Handbook".