it has and you are! Time to bring er in and fuel up while you're just a lap down. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
Hey Rotary, do you remember what 8 races it entered?
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it has and you are! Time to bring er in and fuel up while you're just a lap down. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
Hey Rotary, do you remember what 8 races it entered?
Or even a monkeys uncle ??????Quote:
Originally Posted by T2x
Yup, guess you may be right--------time to do a McIlroy and quit while i.m just one lap down.Quote:
Originally Posted by willabee
Must be something about you i like Willa but i"m buggered if i can remember what it was.
Hang in there if you like, we'll all try to help you figure out how you can get 32 winners using just 8 events! Sounds like a fun project, matter of fact, there is one guy from down under that is already making T-shirts!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
On the other hand, we've all seen how you load the big boat and the little boat when you prepare to travel ..... Jackie, Jackie, Jackie ...... :nonod:
Bet you a £ [pound] to a pincha Rotary will give you some obscure answers.Quote:
Originally Posted by willabee
One of the two he didn't win was Paris, 'cos according to his recollection You and your friends sabotaged the Wankel in the last fifteen minutes of the race,[that was a dastardly trick Willa, how the hell did you unscrew the carbs in the last fifteen minutes ??? Shame on you ]
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Seems like every time i saw them they either went like sh-t of'n a teflon coated shovel and then broke, or just plain broke after a frantic five minutes.
Even the Windermere win was a default, every top runner fell by the wayside and Downard managed to grind out a win, think it was me with a 1000 BP who finished in the top 3, so it wasn't the most amazing performance ever witnessed and crowed about forty odd years later.
As Johno said though--Let's be fair----a wins a win however you get it.
Don't believe they even considered going to Berlin, that was another six hours and they already knew it was a waste of time and money to even bother going.
Still, i have to admit "THEY SOUNDED REAL NICE".
At a million bucks an appearance they bloody well aught to sound nice don't cha think??
Have to ask though---were the only two european races Paris and Windermere,??
If they were, then OMC didn't have a great deal of faith in the damned wankel did they ??
So if in my dotage ---my calculations are correct according to Rotory John. You won every race ever entered by wankels except Parker and Paris. That's if you only did enter eight----and in your own words----won six out of eight.
Or are my eighty one years beginning to affect the little grey cells.
While i'm on the subject thanks for nothing, you miserable shower of forget me nots for the birthday cards i never got from any one of you-----not even a drop dead anytime you feel like it card.
Just for that i shall survive another year to suffer the slings and arrows of an outraged Rotory John and Wllabee.
So, while we're waiting for the list of the 8 races and 6 wins from Rotary John, let's chat a minute about the Cosworth outboards you ran. Where does this one fit in the scheme of things? Was it the first you had built, when did it run, where and how did it perform?Quote:
Originally Posted by jackie wilson
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Every once in a while a new and revolutionary engine design comes along. Just look through the pages of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines for examples. The one thing they all have in common is that they all fail to replace piston engines. So far no one has come up with an engine which more efficiently and economically and reliably converts liquid fuels to usable power. When they do it the market will be the judge of it's success.
And a 2 stroke ship engine leaves everything for dead in fuel to horsepower conversion
Also in power to weight ratio when built with common materials. however 4 stroke engines are closing the gap. I am presently involved in rebuilding a Honda F20 s2000 motor. This engine makes about 240hp from 2 litres. This motor is a 10 year old design and quite a few current designs are even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
yes but how efficient does it convert fuel to horsepower?Quote:
Originally Posted by 2us70
the old BMW 1.5 F1 engine made over 1000 in race trim when thats all that counted, 2014 F1 engines will be fuel flow limited
Horsepower/Capacity is no longer the status symbol it once was
Help me out here, the site froze me out.
Wrote an hour long soliloquy and the damn thing told me I had less than 5 ccharacters what the helps going on with the damned site?
The Duckworth formula for racing was "Give 'em a 200 mile race and twenty gallons of fuel,"Quote:
Originally Posted by powerabout
Willa ,my most knowledgable friend, Unlike the USA where you can even take five bedroom apartment blocks down the road on a multi wheeled transporter, with or without a bunch of uniformed advisors/well wishers/officials on motor cycles and screaming sirens---Europe has strict laws on width and height and weight, so it was the genius Jeremiah Cetti who came up with the solution of piggy backing the big Torriggia OVER the 16' mono.---------As he pointed out----short of boring holes through the Tunnel's hull---there is no way you can carry the small boat on top.Quote:
Originally Posted by willabee
If you ever towed one these boats you will no doubt have put a sponson through a rear light lens, so towing it backward wasn't such a stupid idea as it first appears.
We brought it over the Alps through blinding snow and ice covered roads without a hitch-----this included the Monte Blanc Tunnel during the 1200 mile journey in January 1965 [ i think].
If you read the article about the 8 races as i wrote it----recap and weep,
If you enter four wankels and A.N. Other then it's a four to one chance at winning------multiply this by eight ----and it's a dog's dinner at the white house with Abe Lincoln telling fishing tales whilst dancing with Whoopie Goldberg to the tune of "ole man river" and i just quit before i get lynched.
That's another fine mess you got me into Wolly---Willa.