Νow that is golden !
Thank all you Sirs for the pictures the info and the great company. !
I am more of a mustung or a Toyota Tacoma guy , but for sure the trans am is a dream car with to excuses !
It’s warmed up a bit but we ain’t racing outdoors anytime soon…
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — The city is still piled high with snow nearly two weeks after a major storm — and New Yorkers are going to have to pay up.
The city has issued 2,738 tickets to home and business owners who did not clear their sidewalks after the Jan. 25 storm.
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The amount of space we have that is empty is mind boggling. There’s a young man and his dog that travel around the country looking for geographical oddities and they go explore them. Very interesting.
I like her spirit and that she sells weed to old people, mostly
Spirit of Launchramp
@KeslerDesignWorks is our resident AZ karting expert. Seems like a good state for it. It does get hot, tho. Bear in mind that in CA, AZ, NV, and the like, you run the risk of alien abduction as the industrial military complex is very present, and the aliens like to spy on us. There’s footage of a UFO above K1 circuit in one of my videos, if you look carefully. The truth is out there, @Stamatis125
(In truth there is something that very much could be interpreted as a ufo in my first k1 circuit video. I was watching it and noticed the unusual flight. There is a large Air Force base nearby and a lot of interesting planes and stuff.)
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Well tomorrow is the day i had to do the trip to the mainland to get my new (used ) engine and for keep the cost at low ,
it is gonna be a trip then get the engine and then a trip back home with no hotel sleep on the schedule.
But i got the music cd ready on the toyota .
" East bound and down, loaded up and truckin’
We gonna do what they say can’t be done ,
We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there ,
I’m east bound, just watch ol’ Bandit run " .
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How long is the crossing by boat? Can you nap?
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Crossing by boat is cost something like 35 dollars , its cheap but i need all the bucks that i can spare coz i know. A used angine is gonna need new parts on the service after bring her home .
And after arrival time in athens there are no more ferries till the morning next day . So we got only one way to get back home. ..
The national main road back throw halkida town .
Dont you worry son !!! We are gonna make it !! 😃
Ah ok I thought you had to cross by boat everytime
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Acid Fuel?
I can across this piece of engineering insanity an I thought I’d share it with @Ted_Hamilton so he could develop this forgotten tech to maturity:
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet was the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft to see combat in WWII, using highly corrosive and volatile liquid “acid” fuels. The Nazi-developed interceptor utilized T-Stoff (80-90% hydrogen peroxide) as an oxidizer and C-Stoff (hydrazine hydrate/methanol) as fuel, which caused violent, deadly reactions on contact with skin or in leaks.
- Fuel Composition & Danger: The T-Stoff was highly corrosive, often melting equipment and posing extreme danger to pilots and ground crew.
- Operational Mechanism: The two fuels were hypergolic, meaning they reacted instantly upon mixing to produce immense thrust, powering the plane to speeds around 700 mph.
Sounds like it would be real good in a straight line. Why don’t we see this in top fuel? Just too stupidly dangerous?
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Hydrazine was indeed in drag racing (and karts!) until banned for its’ inherent dangers and instability. I relate a story from my buddy’s unlimited sprint karting:
“I was racing unlimited with a K30 against Joey Lunati, Kyle Adkins, and everyone. One day we see “Crazy Joey” filling his gas tank with rubber gloves and goggles on, so we venture over and ask what’s up… he replies that I don’t know what s@%t dad put in here, but the guys delivered it in a van with rubber suits on. It’s fast as hell, but I wouldn’t want to be on the grid behind me!”
…or something to that effect.
It was a different time!! Crazy Joey also had a ‘special button’ on his nassau panel that he could hit and gain massive speed bump. Nobody knows what it did, and he wasn’t telling. I’m guessing it was either an injection nozzle for additional fuel, or perhaps modified the timing..
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@Stamatis125 Let’s go get a cup of Joe. Let’s take the 911.
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Well, @Ted_Hamilton…
I may never be able to match your hard-won wisdom when it comes to impractical and unlikely ways to die in the pursuit of amusement and self-fulfillment.
However, I do have one fun story about bonkers stuff. As a kid I spent my summers in SoCal as my old man was in a very special think tank that met for a summer session to noodle about vexing defense problems. Basically the idea was that in the late 60s they dreamed up a group of folks in mathematics and physics to assist DARPA with their problems that needed out of the box thinking.
All of these scientists were the 800lb gorillas of their day and many were generational talents. An odd bunch, as you can imagine. These dudes ain’t wired like the rest of us, but that’s for another day.
Anyways, one of the more colorful characters was a fellow who was a Brit by nationality and war, and its demands, had him spending part of his career thinking about blowing shit up. He did some very interesting work early on in terms of propulsion.
Why not propel the bombs with other bombs? Enjoy.
Freeman had a characteristic briefcase that he always carried, It stood out because it had a big TOP SECRET sticker right next to his Elvis Costello “My Aim is True” sticker. Madlad.
I am not sure if the Elvis sticker was an ironic addition in light of the Top Secret stuff or whether the Top Secret sticker came second. Either way, this was a different time. Feynman has great lectures about his early days at Los Alamos that are very funny, as a for example.
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I gave up trying to be “normal” some time ago…
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