[alfa] Re: Quadraflow etc.

[Will Owen <nashwill912@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In #861, John Thompson wrote:

"Three or four HP doesn't sound like much, but does make a difference in
IT racing where the cars are evenly matched and you're trying to pull
that pesky BM* 2002 down the front straight. However, for racing, much
can be done to improve performance just by removing unnecessary stuff
from the car and getting down to minimum weight..."

One of the lovely things about very tight class racing, and not only as
it's done in cars, is how much difference simple preparation can make.
Careful assembly of components can be worth a gallon of snake oil. Back
in my insufficiently-misspent youth, when I was mostly an impecunious
hanger-on in the Alaska SCC up in Anchorage, a young Army lieutenant
named Sam Colt (dunno if any relation to the illustrious etc.) had a
Spridget that regularly waxed the Class G competition (and as the case
was everywhere else this was the most fiercely competitive class, being
the most heavily populated). He was protested regularly, but no illegal
components or tuning tricks were ever found. One day a club member who
was also a GI was changing his oil at the Ft. Richardson auto hobby
shop, and Sam's car was there on a chassis lift with the wheels hanging
free. Just out of curiosity, the guy gave one of Sam's front wheels a
spin. Five minutes later, he said, the wheel was still turning...

Will Owen
Too slovenly for shit like this...
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