<VV> Spinning- rpms (humor?)

Sadek Charles H DLVA SadekCH@NSWC.NAVY.MIL
Thu, 20 May 2004 10:15:10 -0400


Geez, Huckster!  Ole WTBRT #112 "keeps on spinning"?  Cool!  You must have a
low polar moment of inertia....  <VBG>

Chuck S
HMFIC BBRT

-----Original Message-----
From: Louis C. Armer, Jr. [mailto:carmerjr@mindspring.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 2:07 AM
To: vairologist@juno.com
Cc: virtualvairs@corvair.org
Subject: <VV> Re: rpms (humor?)

Shoot, we done a lot more than 10000 rpms............We have at
least 90 runs of  38 to 60 seconds and lots of practice runs.........
sooooooooo that adds up to at least 100,000 rpms !!! <GGG>
"Takes a run and keeps on spinning"
ole # 112 WTBRT

FrontMan
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At 12:17 AM 5/20/04 -0400, you wrote:
>snip
> > Maybe Smitty is looking to make a move to a real
> > Man's racing team !!! <GGG>
>  FrontMan
>-----------------------------------------
>Smitty Says:  Never happen oh confused one.   I would never desert the
>great and proud ranks of the BBRT for a second rate team.  (unless the
>second rate team was buying the beer).
>         You seem to have misread my statement on the breaking
>crankshafts.  You see Warren and Chuck build world class winner engines
>and to do that they have to survive stresses far beyond those encountered
>in half hearted race engines like those of WTBRT.  Crank shafts fail from
>torsional cyclic stress, not rpms.  But other parts of the engine have
>material failure from high rpms due to no fault of the engine builders.
>Therefore they never live long enough to reach the high mileage required
>for failure from torsional vibration.  Just long enough to win races.
>Let's see how long ole 112 lives at 10,000 rpm like 89 does.
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