I'm going to mount a ballast resistor on my radiator to help remove more heat from the dexcool coolant I put in, and along with the increased coolant flow in the system becuause of the Shaw high flow thermostat, I am going for a new Corvette land speed record of Mach 1 (which will NOT match my membership number- it is much higher than 1). Thanks to all here who helped drive me over the edge!
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Hot ballast
If you mount the ballast IN the Dexcool it will increase primary current, which will give you a "hotter spark" and assist you in your quest for the LSR.
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Re: Message from the Other Side
Everrett, it really isn't so bad over here! You'll have lots of great company and who knows, you may even learn something new. That is if you can take time out from your teaching duties. Varooooom is kind of a pain but, he is a constant reminder that things could be worse!
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Re: Going for new land speed record
Try mounting the .8 ohm black dot ballast Jack speaks of in your exhaust. The lower resistance will make the resistor hotter, which will ignite any unburned gasses in the tail pipe.
Voila! Poor man's afterburner!Comment
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Cool ballast
Hew needs a COOLER spark!
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Re: Going for new land speed record
Jerry Clark is responsible for all of us being driven off-the-edge!
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My feelings are hurt
Ken hurt my feelings. I'm NOT sort-of-a-pain, I'm a Royal, Pedal-to-the-Metal 1st class PAIN IN THE ASS!
Rev. Varooom!Comment
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Re: Going for new land speed record
I used to have a 41 Ford with burned exhaust valves and a spark plug in each of the dual aftermarket exhausts about a foot from the end of the exhaust pipes. The plugs were powered by a model T coil controled from the dash. When I cruised past the diner near the high school I could cause big-time flames to project out of my exhaust pipes! Talk about MAJOR COOL! (still wasen't a babe magnet like the 62 Corvette)
Rev. Varooom
P.S. I wonder why I didn't explode. Must have been the PCV valve!Comment
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Yew Had A '41 Ford Too?
Dale,
I thought you were an ole dude ; I can see I am gonna have to re-evaluate my thinking.
My first car was a '41 Ford. It was an "Opera Coupe"; envision that if you can in rural East Texas. In fact, that car and my subsequent '52 Ford Coupe deserve credit for making me a "born again" GM believer.
That ole '41 Ford would only run about 10 miles on a hot Ausust day before one of two things would happen: (1) the fuel line would vapor lock hard preventing any further progress, or (2) the radiator would belch the entire coolant fill out in a great, steaming, volcanic eruption. So to travel any distance beyond about ten miles, you had to carry along a large container of water (made no sense to put anti-freeze in it) and about a pint bottle of gasoline. A heavy dew would also penetrate right into that distributor making it impossible to start, but that's another story.
Now, having once owned a flat head Ford, you probably know the purpose of the pint of gasoline. The following anecdote is for the uninitiated. These young whippersnappers with electronic fuel injection have no idea what excitement is until they've tried force feeding raw gasoline down the carb inlet of an old overheated Ford to clear a vapor lock. You poured in a shot to get it started, then that sucker would start up with deep roaring, sucking sound deep inside the block and scream right up to WOT. Now, you had to have a helper to pump the accelerator while you poured the gasoline, and the results varied considerably depending on your helper's (and your own) skills.
If you got the gasoline stream just right, it ran after a fashion; but if you got little too much (very likely considering the stress of knowing this was your only ride home), WHOA MAMA. You never saw such belching, backfiring, popping, and loud explosions above the carb inlet. It was a terrible, frightening experience with long tongues of flames extending 2-3 feet above the carb. Every now and then, you had to stop pouring to see if you had managed to clear the vapor out of the fuel line. If the vapor wasn't cleared, and it started to die, you had to quick pour in another slug and hope you weren't too late.
They said to put clothes pins on the fuel line...what a load of BS. I had clothes pins side by side along the entire fuel line, and I never saw any improvement. I couldn't have survived it if I hadn't been a teenager. Today's young people have no idea how far the technology has come.
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