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 Posted: Dec 12, 2006 - 05:46 PM |
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Location: Wisconsin, USA
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yep, actually it will do more than that. I've done ~60 but that takes a lot of R's ~ 3800RPM. It has a 413 Chrysler engine in it. The most dangerous part is the original cast flywheel; they've been known to come apart if over spun. It's just an old retired pulling tractor
Here you can see the "zoomy" headders. The snowmobile helmet is to keep the rain/sleet out of my face. The other guy (one with red face was feel'n the pain) We were going about 45 in this shot. |
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Posted: Dec 12, 2006 - 06:46 PM |
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Location: Boulder, Colorado,USA
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How cool!! I alway dream to drive a truck at that speed! pretty scary...  Where I grow up, my father's friend used to have a truck, but it rarely went 35. Actually it was a mirable that still was running!  |
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Posted: Dec 12, 2006 - 08:34 PM |
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OK, here's a shot at Pocono International Raceway. What's kind of cool is the way this was taken ... The photog used a 3-ccd digital camera from about 400 meters away. Some massive huge lens with a front element that was as big as both my fists.
Rules on the track were to keep a minimum of 6 car-lengths away from the car in front of you. The focal length and distance foreshortens the shot so it looks like all 3 cars are right on top of each other.
Speeds were around 40/50mph in the inner track twisties (in the shot), about 120 in the front straight (video) and I hit 167 on the back straight 
http://monitor.pexicom.com:82/Pocono%202001%20clip.wmv ID/password is guest/guest
Talk about a blast Got a ride in a Ferrari 512BB, a 1100HP+ Dodge Viper and this tiny open-frame racer. The Ferarri was just amazing - the wail from the engine right behind you was simply staggering. The Viper was like a brick with a rocket motor on it. The scariest was the little open-frame job - you really really feel the speed, even though it was the slowest of the lot. |
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"Life is just one damn thing after another" Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Posted: Dec 12, 2006 - 11:21 PM |
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Location: Missouri
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Dean,
Do you get the show "VICTORY BY DESIGN" where you live now? I could watch that show for hours!!! I was born and raised in the midwest but I do a pretty good impression of the English gentleman who hosts the show! My friends laugh pretty hard. Many moons ago I read a book called, "The Design and Tuning of Competition Engines".It was fascinating. |
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Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 12:51 AM |
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Location: Halifax, NS
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Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 12:58 AM |
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No, haven't seen that one - I'll look for it though. Recommendation from AVRFreaks are always noteworthy. I agree with you on engines ... In retrospect it seems amazing that such a conglomeration of mechanical contrivances that seem to be so at odds with each other can come together to produce such staggering things as the F1 racing engines or the enormous railcar engines.
My Supra is 12 years old now, with just over 100k miles on it. Still pulls to over 440RWHP on the dyno, and the modifications are minor to get there. 6 years ago that was considered pretty damn good. Today it doesn't even rate a mention or footnote, since the average HP numbers at the get-togethers (Supras TX, Supras LasVegas) are up in the 650RWHP+ range, with 800RWHP being common now instead of holy-crap-Batman!
I remember reading somewhere that the engines in a railcar at full throttle suck in fuel faster than you could pour it out. If you had a 5-gallon bucket, it would be drained out quicker than you could throw it on the ground.
It's like a helicopter, which seems to be such a nonsense piece of equipment. All that incredible motion and energy and noise, levers flipping and bits whanging against each other, all just to ... hang there. |
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"Life is just one damn thing after another" Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 01:01 AM |
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Colin,
That is outstanding!! A creative application of your knowledge!!! |
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Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 01:10 AM |
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Location: Missouri
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Dean,
Here is the link:
http://www.victorybydesign.com/
Click Play on the advertisement and you will see the Host(a former 24 hour Lemans driver himself) taking these rare, very expensive, European race cars and running the #*%& out of them. Not only is the guy really knowledgeable about the history of the cars, he doesn't hold back when he drives them..(as you can see in the video)
Trust me, you would dig that show!
EDIT: Don't forget to check the "Sound Gallery" to hear a Ferrari ENZO!!! |
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Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 01:40 AM |
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Location: Apalachin, NY, USA
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microcarl wrote:
But, I guess everybody has already figured out that I am quite the dork.
Carl, I think I've got you beat as my daughter often reminds me: "Dad, you're SUCH a dork".
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Posted: Dec 13, 2006 - 07:58 AM |
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Location: Brisbane Queensland Australia
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Hi
Great to see all these pictures of the Freaks Members.
Thought this thread was to show who you are.
Maybe a seperate thread for all the achievements might be a suitable idea.
@js
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Not doing it with IE6 and of course the text size still does not work with it either.
I have the same problem with mine using IE6.
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Posted: Dec 15, 2006 - 11:46 PM |
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Location: Bristol, UK
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Sorry to be a bit late to the thread and to bring it back on topic
I'm on the right - March 2006
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Posted: Dec 18, 2006 - 12:51 AM |
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Carl, I think I've got you beat as my daughter often reminds me: "Dad, you're SUCH a dork".
I envy what for me would be an elevation in status. My daughter called me the "chauffeur and wallet." |
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Posted: Dec 18, 2006 - 01:25 AM |
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zbaird wrote:
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Carl, I think I've got you beat as my daughter often reminds me: "Dad, you're SUCH a dork".
I envy what for me would be an elevation in status. My daughter called me the "chauffeur and wallet."
Well, the kids are all grown and gone. But I have nick-named my wife and I "The Livingston Family Bank" because, the money seems to just keep rolling out - with no return.
I keep telling the kids that, they had better figure it out as, their mother and I woun't be here for ever. |
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The original Dragon Slayer !
Long live the AVR!!!
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Posted: Dec 19, 2006 - 01:54 AM |
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zbaird wrote:
I envy what for me would be an elevation in status. My daughter called me the "chauffeur and wallet."
I'm no longer the chaffer as my daughter's been driving for 4-years. However, she's in her 3rd year of a 7-year degree at a private university. Although she doesn't call me "wallet", at least to my face, I'm "wallet" BIG TIME.
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Posted: Feb 14, 2007 - 06:06 PM |
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Posted: Feb 15, 2007 - 06:55 AM |
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Location: Canberra, Australia
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zbaird wrote:
I envy what for me would be an elevation in status. My daughter called me the "chauffeur and wallet."
I'm no longer the chaffer as my daughter's been driving for 4-years. However, she's in her 3rd year of a 7-year degree at a private university. Although she doesn't call me "wallet", at least to my face, I'm "wallet" BIG TIME.
Don
Someone at work said he would be glad when his kids left home as he would not have to do things for them. I told him that you have to do just as much (or more) - you just have to drive further to do it!
For all that - "Grandchildren are the reward for not killing your children" |
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Posted: Feb 16, 2007 - 03:32 AM |
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c_hirst wrote:
Someone at work said he would be glad when his kids left home as he would not have to do things for them. I told him that you have to do just as much (or more) - you just have to drive further to do it!
That's the truth!
My daughter was home from college this weekend for a 4-day break. I didn't have to pick her up - she drove home (4-hour trip). We've had bad weather (heavy snow) just before she came home and just after she returned.
You never stop worrying about your kids. I don't think it ever gets easier.
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Posted: Feb 24, 2007 - 06:19 AM |
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photo quality is bad... Me the bald one in center
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Posted: Jul 14, 2007 - 12:34 PM |
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Location: Victoria, Australia
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The only reason this is here is to help people find me at the 430 Day! (or avoid me!)
It's the best i've ever looked!
And yes red is the normal skin colour for people of my race!
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Posted: Jul 16, 2007 - 11:29 AM |
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Location: Gdańsk, Poland
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i had a nice photo of myself, but this one should satisfy you  taken 3 years ago, while preparing our place for band practices.
i'll check my girl's computer if there is actually my frontal presenting picture. after work.
how about miss of freaks voting? |
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