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Riverside International Raceway 1972 I was on Bob Peckham's crew during the '72 & '73 Can-Am season when we raced at Riverside and Laguna Seca. This was a new experience for me; here we were, among world- class cars and famous drivers with our second- hand McLaren M8C, a volunteer crew, and no...

It is difficult for me to understand why people put up with regulations like this. :mad:

In a Southern Arizona summer, Try sitting on vinyl seats in shorts! :eek:

The relationship between Hilborn and Kinsler has never been clear to me. The first Kinsler catalog I received years ago contained an assortment of various mechanical fuel injection manifolds, many based on modified Hilborn units . The injection with the purple stacks actually looks VERY similar...

The Shenadoah, Macon, & Akron all met a bad end. The era of the rigid dirigibles was at an end. https://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-airships/

Amini starter is a DC motor running at high speed but with a gear train to reduce speed and increase torque, It draws far less current, too.

An aluminum block & heads can save a lot of weight over cast iron. My complete engine weighs only 395 lbs including flywheel. This even has a heavy forged crank. A stock iron block Chevy weighs 575 lbs.

I think these are the same mini starters that are commonly used on small block Chevys. They were developed by Hitachi.

" Getting gas becomes quite an event, the crowds are large , the questions endless, people are really nice,I dont mind it at all, always enjoy meeting new people , especially gearheads," I guarantee there will always be these questions- "What is it?", "How fast will it go?", and "How much did...

I just looked back at this post and realized that I never updated the results of my trip to Bonneville. The 2019 trip was a fiasco. The engine was running very poorly and it didn't even finish the run. On tear down I found a bad Holley 4 BBL and a missing cam button. I rebuilt the engine with a...

Interesting, thanks for posting. I was a high school freshman back in 1953 and we lived in Newport when my Dad was attending the Navy War College there. Lots of nice mansions along Cliff Walk.

Riv-Nuts were developed by BF Goodrich back in the 1930s as blind threaded inserts for sheet metal. They are placed into a drilled hole and a threaded tool is inserted and pulled tight, flaring and expanding the end of the Riv-Nut behind the panel. The tool is then removed and the Riv- Nut is...

The threaded inserts look like Riv-Nuts rather that Nutserts.

Thank you for posting these videos. I did see two short glimpses of David Yorke, the team manager, in the 1968 film.

Although not directly concerned with the Ford GT40, this video does follow John Wyer's team after their GT40 program with Gulf Oil, Enjoy.

The choice of V12 engines is limited and fraught with pitfalls. A great V12 is the various Ferrari models but they are $$$, A Colombo small- block is a good choice but a Lampredi big-block is probably overkill and more rare. Forget a Jaguar V12; it is heavy, large, and low powered. In addition...

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Paul, you were 2 minutes too late. David Deschamps beat you to it. If David wishes to send them to you to copy, it is his decision. Thanks for the interest. Regards, Neil

Moving to a new house has been trying but it has uncovered some things that I did not realize I had. The latest discovery is three GT40 body cross- section profile drawings. These drawings are some FAV copies that John Horsman gave me a few years ago They are not complete but may be useful or...