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On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 4:28:56 PM UTC-8, slow eddy once again lied to this group.
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 18:41:14 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 4:28:56 PM UTC-8, slow eddy once again lied to this group. slow eddy lies snipped Ed's accurate, documentabnle facts restored. But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. slow eddy is a life long loser who has spent the majority of his life writing worthless ad copy for pay for play advertising driven machining rags. What happened to your claims about those pushrod engines, Banquer? What happened to your claim that the "tiny" engines (3.5 liter) in the GT40's competitors were "wimps"? Your new, favorite Ford has a 3.5 liter engine, Banquer. You really are a fraud. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 6:51:03 PM UTC-8, slow eddy lied some mo
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 19:38:31 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 6:51:03 PM UTC-8, slow eddy lied some mo More slow eddy lies snipped Ed's accurate, documentabnle facts restored. But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. slow eddy is a life long loser who has spent the majority of his life writing worthless ad copy for pay for play advertising driven machining rags. What happened to your claims about those pushrod engines, Banquer? What happened to your claim that the "tiny" engines (3.5 liter) in the GT40's competitors were "wimps"? Your new, favorite Ford has a 3.5 liter engine, Banquer. You really are a fraud. Nothing to respond to. You keep snipping out the good parts, Jon. You must find it embarrassing to confront the many stupid, reckless and ignorant things you've said over the years. And there's such a library to choose from! Don't be so thin-skinned, Banquer. If you have any value here at all, it's entertainment, and most of that comes from recalling things you've said, and contrasting them with your latest enthusiasms. Get over it. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 5:56:57 AM UTC-8, slow eddy continued to show how desperate he is to cover up for the fact that he's a life long failu
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 07:34:17 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 5:56:57 AM UTC-8, slow eddy continued to show how desperate he is to cover up for the fact that he's a life long failu Typical slow eddy lies and bull**** snipped Nothing to respond to. Crapped out again, eh, Jon? Your snarly and snarky posts always seem to leave you holding the bag. Unlike your little friends on LinkedIn, you can't control the conversation here. You should know this by now. This is not your kind of place. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:06:28 AM UTC-8, slow eddy lied some more because he usual lies, that attempt to cover up his massive incompetence, never work
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 08:20:45 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:06:28 AM UTC-8, slow eddy lied some more because he usual lies, that attempt to cover up his massive incompetence, never work The usual slow eddy lies snipped Time to write some more worthless pay for play ad copy, bitch. "Bitch"? Oh, Jon is getting frustrated and is dragging out his bottom-of-the-barrel slurs. Jeez, Jon, you used to have a lot more staying power. So, how much are they paying you to write slander these days, Jon? You must be playing the CAD/CAM companies off against each other, taking money to slander their competitors. Or are you not making anything at all? Are they just satisfied to keep you as a gullible sucker, giving them a platform to post sales copy, which you dutifully pass along as if it's objective analysis? -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:28:44 AM UTC-8, slow eddy lied again like he always does when I point out what he is:
More slow eddy lies snipped It's so easy to rattle slow eddies cage. All it takes is pointing out the truth about how he's spent most of his life working as a pay for play ad copy writer for worthless advertising based rags. Nothing to respond to. |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:26:27 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:28:44 AM UTC-8, slow eddy lied again like he always does when I point out what he is: More slow eddy lies snipped It's so easy to rattle slow eddies cage. All it takes is pointing out the truth about how he's spent most of his life working as a pay for play ad copy writer for worthless advertising based rags. Nothing to respond to. That isn't a cage you're hearing, Jon. It's the doors you've locked behind yourself by being a self-aggrandizing and abusive jerk for so many years, compounded by incidents like this one: ============================================= UPDATE -- July 8, 2007 -- I had to close this blog post to further comments and to remove the personal attacks between Jon and some other newsgroups readers. Before the interview, I made an agreement with Jon about the style of the interview and the way to handle it. Jon didn’t respect our agreement, posting comments under fake names. Jon’s authentic and fake comments are all posted from the same IP address, 72.199.251.224. I can now see that my trust in Jon was misplaced. -- Franco Folini, Novedge blog ============================================= Your credibility is utterly destroyed, but it pales by comparison to the disgust you've produced in so many people who once tried to be tolerant of your opinions. -- Ed Huntress |
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Ed Huntress wrote:
On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. Ed, I am no fan of banqueer but he does have a point. To make the same amount of power in a cam in block pushrod engine as an OHC design takes some serious engineering and advanced controls. Take a look at the new 'Vette ZO-6 Direct injection, active cylinder control, VVT, supercharged and a dry sump to make a 6.2L turn out 650HP & 650 lb-ft That is serious engineering to make that in an engine with a 5 year 100K warranty! 2hp per cube in a production engine ain't bad. -- Steve W. |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:40:30 -0500, "Steve W."
wrote: Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. Ed, I am no fan of banqueer but he does have a point. Actually, Steve, that wasn't the "point" he was making at the time. We were discussing racing engines, and Jon claimed to be working for someone who was building NASCAR engines. He was belittling F1 engines. At that time, pushrod NASCAR engines, 358 cu. in. and producing up to 900 hp, were making about 2.5 hp/cu. in., while F1 engines, normally aspirated 3-liter (183 cu. in.) engines running on pump gasoline and producing up to 950 hp (2005), made 5.2 hp/cu. in. Still, in the face of that, he claimed that pushrod engines were "more advanced." To make the same amount of power in a cam in block pushrod engine as an OHC design takes some serious engineering and advanced controls. Actually, given equal sophistication, the DOHC designs still produce more power. Chevy's chief of engineering says that the new Corvette would make 10% more power with DOHC. But that doesn't mean it's better for the application. In a street engine, if you need 10% more horsepower, you can just make the engine 10% bigger g. The new Corvette is 5 or 6 inches lower because it doesn't have overhead cams -- an important issue for a sleek, front-engined sports car. And it's cheaper to build and to maintain. Take a look at the new 'Vette ZO-6 Direct injection, active cylinder control, VVT, supercharged and a dry sump to make a 6.2L turn out 650HP & 650 lb-ft That is serious engineering to make that in an engine with a 5 year 100K warranty! 2hp per cube in a production engine ain't bad. Right. But the new Ford GT makes over 600 hp on 3.5L -- with DOHC. It's making almost twice as much horsepower per cubic inch, versus the pushrod ZO6 Corvette. Jonny Bonkers doesn't have a "reasonable" mode. He goes goes all-in, like a bipolar nutcase (which I think he is), and makes ridiculous statements. Pushrod engines are in no way "more advanced" than DOHC. They can be good, they can be practical, and they can put out a lot of power. But in racing, or, in the case of smaller engines for the street, they just can't compete in terms of power, cubic-inch for cubic-inch, or efficiency. That's why they're all but gone. BTW, when he was talking about how "advanced" those NASCAR engines were, I couldn't help but think where F1 was a decade earlier -- 1,350 hp on 91 cu. in. -- roughly 15 hp/cu. in., on pump gasoline. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 1:40:30 PM UTC-8, Steve W. wrote:
Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. Ed, I am no fan of banqueer but he does have a point. To make the same amount of power in a cam in block pushrod engine as an OHC design takes some serious engineering and advanced controls. Take a look at the new 'Vette ZO-6 Direct injection, active cylinder control, VVT, supercharged and a dry sump to make a 6.2L turn out 650HP & 650 lb-ft That is serious engineering to make that in an engine with a 5 year 100K warranty! 2hp per cube in a production engine ain't bad. -- Steve W. Too funny. Steve Weasel prefers a lying bull****ter like slow eddy but has to admit I'm right. :) slow eddy has spent most of his life writing worthless ad copy. I've spent the last 2 decades working in and for modern, high-tech, machining job shops. My CADCAM skills and knowledge are recognized worldwide. See my LinkedIn profile. NHRA drag racing engines use push rods and supposedly produce 8,000 horsepower in top fuel and funny car. When it comes to horsepower, there is no better value than a push rod engine. Unfortunately, a loser and a liar like slow eddy can't deal with this kind of reality because he's never evolved from his Bermuda shorts SCCA days. slow eddy is a blowhard who has never done anything worthwhile in his entire life. |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 1:35:08 PM UTC-8, slow eddy continued to lie because lying is what slow eddy does best:
The usual slow eddy lies snipped Even my critics know slow eddy is full of ****. Some even realize slow eddy is my bitch and that I can easily jerk his chain and rattle his cage. Not hard to do because slow eddy is a world class bull****er who has never done anything notable in his entire life. |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:50:02 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 1:40:30 PM UTC-8, Steve W. wrote: Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. Ed, I am no fan of banqueer but he does have a point. To make the same amount of power in a cam in block pushrod engine as an OHC design takes some serious engineering and advanced controls. Take a look at the new 'Vette ZO-6 Direct injection, active cylinder control, VVT, supercharged and a dry sump to make a 6.2L turn out 650HP & 650 lb-ft That is serious engineering to make that in an engine with a 5 year 100K warranty! 2hp per cube in a production engine ain't bad. -- Steve W. Too funny. Steve Weasel prefers a lying bull****ter like slow eddy but has to admit I'm right. :) slow eddy has spent most of his life writing worthless ad copy. I've spent the last 2 decades working in and for modern, high-tech, machining job shops. My CADCAM skills and knowledge are recognized worldwide. See my LinkedIn profile. ....and can't hold a job... NHRA drag racing engines use push rods and supposedly produce 8,000 horsepower in top fuel and funny car. .....for about 700 revolutions, until it needs a complete rebuild... When it comes to horsepower, there is no better value than a push rod engine. ....you're full of crap.... Unfortunately, a loser and a liar like slow eddy... ....who works for a living, and who never lies on Usenet... ... can't deal with this kind of reality because he's never evolved from his Bermuda shorts SCCA days... ...while Jon has evolved from a wfie-beater to a full-time fraud...is that progress? slow eddy is a blowhard who has never done anything worthwhile in his entire life. Jonny Bonkers, the Barcalounger racer, has just done an amazing flip-flop, telling us how wonderful the new Ford GT is...while it has dual overhead cams and has a "wimpy" 3.5 liters of displacement, which are exactly the things he's made fun of for years. If Jon could only hear himself talking, he'd probably cry. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 3:27:40 PM UTC-8, slow eddy kept lying because when cornered and nailed to the wall that's all he's capable of:
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:40:33 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 3:27:40 PM UTC-8, slow eddy kept lying because when cornered and nailed to the wall that's all he's capable of: More slow eddy lies snipped Nothing to respond to. Jon has shot his wad. 'Back to LinkedIn for you, Jon. You still have them snowed. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:14:33 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried to make excuses for why his LinkedIn profile has so few endorsements and why he has so few connections:
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:18:13 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:14:33 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried to make excuses for why his LinkedIn profile has so few endorsements and why he has so few connections: slow eddy lame excuses and usual lies snipped Nothing to respond to. ....because he can't. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:48:11 PM UTC-8, slow eddy continued to show that I own him.
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:41:58 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 4:48:11 PM UTC-8, slow eddy continued to show that I own him. snip Nothing to respond to. sigh ...how soon they forget... [Jon Banquer replying to Ed Huntress]: Ed, The newsgroup badly needs someone who is as articulate as you are. Keep me on my toes and correct me where ever you think it's appropriate,as I respect what you have to say based on what you have already posted. I will certainly take the time to think about whatever correction, advice, etc. you post. - Jon Banquer - Jun 23, 2002 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....I/t2qa5vNd-rQJ You betcha, Jon! |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:28:32 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried a meaningless, out of context quote and failed miserably:
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:36:47 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 7:28:32 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried a meaningless, out of context quote and failed miserably: Snipped, meaningless, out of context quote Nothing to respond to. You can run from your words, Jon, but you can't hide. d8-) -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:11:20 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried to run from the fact that he frequently gets it wrong:
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:34:45 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer
wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:11:20 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried to run from the fact that he frequently gets it wrong: slow eddy nonsense snipped Nothing to respond to. You can run from your words, but you can't hide. ....and they will haunt you wherever you troll, Banquer. Google is your enemy. g -- Ed Huntress |
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On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 9:23:55 PM UTC-8, slow eddy tried the same lame tactics he always tires and once again failed miserably.
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Ed Huntress wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:40:30 -0500, "Steve W." wrote: Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. Ed, I am no fan of banqueer but he does have a point. Actually, Steve, that wasn't the "point" he was making at the time. We were discussing racing engines, and Jon claimed to be working for someone who was building NASCAR engines. He was belittling F1 engines. At that time, pushrod NASCAR engines, 358 cu. in. and producing up to 900 hp, were making about 2.5 hp/cu. in., while F1 engines, normally aspirated 3-liter (183 cu. in.) engines running on pump gasoline and producing up to 950 hp (2005), made 5.2 hp/cu. in. Still, in the face of that, he claimed that pushrod engines were "more advanced." AAHH Didn't dig back to that. To make the same amount of power in a cam in block pushrod engine as an OHC design takes some serious engineering and advanced controls. Actually, given equal sophistication, the DOHC designs still produce more power. Chevy's chief of engineering says that the new Corvette would make 10% more power with DOHC. But that doesn't mean it's better for the application. In a street engine, if you need 10% more horsepower, you can just make the engine 10% bigger g. The new Corvette is 5 or 6 inches lower because it doesn't have overhead cams -- an important issue for a sleek, front-engined sports car. And it's cheaper to build and to maintain. True Take a look at the new 'Vette ZO-6 Direct injection, active cylinder control, VVT, supercharged and a dry sump to make a 6.2L turn out 650HP & 650 lb-ft That is serious engineering to make that in an engine with a 5 year 100K warranty! 2hp per cube in a production engine ain't bad. Right. But the new Ford GT makes over 600 hp on 3.5L -- with DOHC. It's making almost twice as much horsepower per cubic inch, versus the pushrod ZO6 Corvette. Jonny Bonkers doesn't have a "reasonable" mode. He goes goes all-in, like a bipolar nutcase (which I think he is), and makes ridiculous statements. Pushrod engines are in no way "more advanced" than DOHC. They can be good, they can be practical, and they can put out a lot of power. But in racing, or, in the case of smaller engines for the street, they just can't compete in terms of power, cubic-inch for cubic-inch, or efficiency. That's why they're all but gone. BTW, when he was talking about how "advanced" those NASCAR engines were, I couldn't help but think where F1 was a decade earlier -- 1,350 hp on 91 cu. in. -- roughly 15 hp/cu. in., on pump gasoline. NASCAR has never been a hotbed of technological improvement. Take a look at the current cars, all cookie cutter bred with only decals making them different. They turned the whole thing into IROC. I gave up watching it after Dale died and the changes started. -- Steve W. |
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:13:09 -0500, "Steve W."
wrote: Ed Huntress wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:40:30 -0500, "Steve W." wrote: Ed Huntress wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:20:34 -0800 (PST), jon_banquer wrote: The car that makes slow eddy cry hysterically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXg-CeVNxho But Jon, it has dual overhead cams! How crude! Banquer always says that pushrods are "more advanced"! What a fraud you are, Banquer. Ed, I am no fan of banqueer but he does have a point. Actually, Steve, that wasn't the "point" he was making at the time. We were discussing racing engines, and Jon claimed to be working for someone who was building NASCAR engines. He was belittling F1 engines. At that time, pushrod NASCAR engines, 358 cu. in. and producing up to 900 hp, were making about 2.5 hp/cu. in., while F1 engines, normally aspirated 3-liter (183 cu. in.) engines running on pump gasoline and producing up to 950 hp (2005), made 5.2 hp/cu. in. Still, in the face of that, he claimed that pushrod engines were "more advanced." AAHH Didn't dig back to that. To make the same amount of power in a cam in block pushrod engine as an OHC design takes some serious engineering and advanced controls. Actually, given equal sophistication, the DOHC designs still produce more power. Chevy's chief of engineering says that the new Corvette would make 10% more power with DOHC. But that doesn't mean it's better for the application. In a street engine, if you need 10% more horsepower, you can just make the engine 10% bigger g. The new Corvette is 5 or 6 inches lower because it doesn't have overhead cams -- an important issue for a sleek, front-engined sports car. And it's cheaper to build and to maintain. True Take a look at the new 'Vette ZO-6 Direct injection, active cylinder control, VVT, supercharged and a dry sump to make a 6.2L turn out 650HP & 650 lb-ft That is serious engineering to make that in an engine with a 5 year 100K warranty! 2hp per cube in a production engine ain't bad. Right. But the new Ford GT makes over 600 hp on 3.5L -- with DOHC. It's making almost twice as much horsepower per cubic inch, versus the pushrod ZO6 Corvette. Jonny Bonkers doesn't have a "reasonable" mode. He goes goes all-in, like a bipolar nutcase (which I think he is), and makes ridiculous statements. Pushrod engines are in no way "more advanced" than DOHC. They can be good, they can be practical, and they can put out a lot of power. But in racing, or, in the case of smaller engines for the street, they just can't compete in terms of power, cubic-inch for cubic-inch, or efficiency. That's why they're all but gone. BTW, when he was talking about how "advanced" those NASCAR engines were, I couldn't help but think where F1 was a decade earlier -- 1,350 hp on 91 cu. in. -- roughly 15 hp/cu. in., on pump gasoline. NASCAR has never been a hotbed of technological improvement. Take a look at the current cars, all cookie cutter bred with only decals making them different. They turned the whole thing into IROC. I gave up watching it after Dale died and the changes started. Yeah, that's when I lost interest, too. After the switch to FWD and smaller engines in production cars, NASCAR had a real dilemma. They decided to freeze the technology at around 1968 level, g with big V8s and tube frames, coil-over suspension, etc., and to make the sport purely a competition between drivers and teams. They started making a big deal out of drivers' personalities and attitudes, to promote loyalties away from manufacturers and toward the drivers. That's OK, and it was a smart move on their part. But it really didn't interest me much. I missed the competition among engines and manufacturers. I wasn't happy with F1 at the time, either, when aerodynamics made the cars look something like Transformers from Hell. Bizarre engines with freakish horsepower outputs; cornering that made them look like they were on rails; and electronics that would challenge a fighter plane turned them into high-speed computers on wheels. sigh That's progress. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 1:13:09 AM UTC-8, Steve W. wrote:
AAHH Didn't dig back to that. Anyone who takes what slow eddy says as the gospel is a fool. Start digging, bitch. |
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