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Re: Danica Patrick - Gentlemen Start Your Engines!

by Booger <strmbrgr2@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 4, 2008 at 03:40 PM

On Apr 4, 10:58=A0am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 3, 6:39=A0pm, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> Al ****ba <williamhubb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > On Apr 3, 6:23=A0am, Agent Smith <agent-sm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> Al ****ba <williamhubb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> > On Apr 1, 4:27=A0pm, Agent Smith
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> >> >> >> Nancy2 <nancy-doo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> >> > On Mar 29, 10:20=A0pm, Al ****ba
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> >> >> >> >> On Mar 29, 3:02=A0pm, Agent Smith
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> >> >> >> >> left.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >> > "garantat.net" <warranty_4_c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> >> >> > > Danica Patrick - Gentlemen Start Your Engines!
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> >> >> >> >> > Gentlemen only start their engines for girly girls, not
> >> >> >> >> > for the manly on
> >> >> >> > es.
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> >> >> >> >> Robby Gordon started this. if he was serious he'd drop 20
> >> >> >> >> pounds to be like his brother Jeff. There's a NASCAR driver
> >> >> >> >> by the name of martin who weighs about 135. No one at nascar
> >> >> >> >> is whining..
>
> >> >> >> > Certainly, I hope you know that Robbie and Jeff are NOT
> >> >> >> > related at all. =A0Nascar mandates a total weight for car and
> >> >> >> > driver (a minimum). Anything over the minimum is just a
> >> >> >> > disadvantage for the team. =A0But they all have to make the
> >> >> >> > minimum. =A0Too bad you
>
> >> >> >> > don't know what you're
>
> >> >> >> > talking about.
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> >> >> >> I think they should take off all the equipment restrictions,
> >> >> >> except safety requirements, and let the engineers go wild.
=A0?;)=

>
> >> >> > It would make for better racing...
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> >> >> It would also make for better engineering, and there's really no
> >> >> reason to do otherwise, other than the fact that the s****t is
> >> >> hidebound. =A0If they opened the techincal floodgates, track
speeds
> >> >> would hit 275 mph within probably five years.
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> >> >> Of course, it does raise the question of what would happen if they
> >> >> put nitro-methane into the cars, as they do with the funny cars
> >> >> and dragsters that run the quarter mile sprints. =A0Those things
get=

> >> >> up to 300
>
> >> >> mph within just that short distance, making nitro the obvious
> >> >> first choice for new technical ideas.
>
> >> >> I figure that nitro-methane should dissolve in ethanol, and if I'm
> >> >> right, you could build something resembling a flex fuel race car,
> >> >> to stabilize the stuff against explosion. =A0But then, I suppose
> >> >> that "the
>
> >> >> stuff" must already be stabilized against explosion, or the
> >> >> quarter mile tracks would be a **lot** more interesting. =A0;(
>
> >> >> I wonder what chemical they use to stabilize it, and what fraction
> >> >> they have to put in?
>
> >> > Dunno., maybe a little of the stuff they coat air****t runways when
> >> > a plane's llanding gear is bollixed.. it is sold as an water pump
> >> > lubricant called "water wetter"..
>
> >> I cross-posted to rec.pyro, so if anybody knows the answer, it will
> >> be them. =A0I'm not optimistic, though, because, like most people on
> >> usenet, they pretend to know more than they actually do.
>
> > So tell us there Joe. Whats a RED BOX??
>
> See what I mean. He has nothing but rage, hostility and belligerence and
> no meaningful information. =A0He just plays games by changing the
subject,=

> and gushes a torrent of hatred, Jack. =A0He deserves his nickname,
because=

> he truly is a booger.- Hide quoted text -
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Anyway, to answer your question. I have seen many a time they will
actually drop the drums of NM of the truck at races. No explosion so I
would take a guess that it is relatively stable. I did a search for NM
stabilization and most of the hits are for actually using NM to
stabilize other mixtures.
 




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Re: Danica Patrick - Gentlemen Start Your Engines!
Booger <strmbrgr2@[EMA  2008-04-04 15:40:28 
Re: Danica Patrick - Gentlemen Start Your Engines!
Agent Smith <agent-smi  2008-04-05 18:22:30 

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