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Larry Hill 04-19-2020 09:20 AM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Aero Space with aluminum drums rear.

Glenn Briglio 04-19-2020 09:23 AM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Larry Hill (Post 612464)
When I shift the car to high gear it seems to want to move right along. Those M W brakes work real well.

I drove 330 plus miles to have a set of shocks dynoed. Man are those things sensitive on adjustment. I think we now have a place to start from to sort the car out, I hope.

After we get the car back together, the real test will be figuring out what boards to make to load the car without damaging the plastic splitter.
Who did your shocks?

Larry Hill 04-19-2020 09:28 AM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Santhuff Shocks with Gary Jennings getting them adjusted on the dyno to a starting point for on track testing.

Larry Hill 04-23-2020 03:09 PM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Race Ramps to the rescue. I did all measurements hit the calculate button and got the answer I did not expect. Answer no ramps needed it loaded fine with the big front tires. That will pay for most of a drum of fuel. Verifying that internal data recorder works and downloads. The guy on B.C. comics, Thor, would be so proud!

Larry Hill 04-26-2020 11:19 AM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
I think I'm almost done and ready to test and get the car to go A to B. It's been a long time coming!

Randall Klein 04-26-2020 05:27 PM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Man, I'm ready to see some action
Hope your hard work pays off

May I ask what you are hoping for performance wise?

Larry Hill 04-28-2020 08:47 AM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
What ever the car will do and go straight. Have everything work without any glitches. If glitches do appear try to solve them ourselves without taking time from someone else's day.

Larry Hill 04-28-2020 09:29 AM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Yesterday Dumbo took flight. It was not pretty most of the time, but no crashes or near misses. The five people crew consisted of team leader Gary Jennings, wiring wizard Bob Toy, do whatever needs doing Chris Hill, the lady in charge of the pits Patsy Hill, and me the driver. Our "Phone A Friend's" were Randy and Cooter. I can't thank everyone enough!

What we did is generate a laundry list of what we know and think needs to be done to help it be competitive in class. As it is today we would just be in the way. I am a Class racer, after class then I want to win the race.

The day would have went much better if the driver didn't screwup, seems like every pass. After driving the Cuda for years it was hard not to shift Dumbo early.

Larry Hill 04-28-2020 06:45 PM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Dumbo was able to run the index 1/8 mile before the end of the day. The Cuda took over a year to hit the IHRA 1/8 mile index.

GUMP 04-28-2020 08:54 PM
Re: Dumbo The Flying Elephant
 
Photos would be nice......


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