Re: The 55 mph speeder

["Pat Rock" <patrock@coredcs.com>]

Mike

You forgot the "train" on the E&LS at the end on August where I towed a
disabled woodings and my T19 over 100 miles maintaining track speeds the
full distance.
BTW that same woodings performed flawlessly a month later on the WC Mellen
meet.

Pat Rock

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> From: M19SOORKB@Prodigy.Net
> To: Pat Rock <patrock@coredcs.com>; Richard Ray <ray_r@rocketmail.com>;
Speeders <speeders@lists.cirr.com>
> Subject: Re: The 55 mph speeder
> Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 6:48 PM
> 
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> > There are stock 55 mph speeders out there, they are called A-cars and
> > ST-2s.  I think a S-2K with the proper pullies will also do this.  I
have
> > been able to sustain 45 mph on GOOD track with my open stock ST-2K. 
There
> > was room left on the timer, throttle, and needle valve to go faster.  I
do
> > not recommend going faster then 30 mph as one misses the scenery.  my
own
> > opinion, a good meet speed is between 25 and 30 mph as the non geared
> > singles do not run well much below 20 and even my ST has a bad
performance
> > band between 15 and 20 mph.  Above 30 mph things start to break down.
> >
> > Pat Rock
> 
> After reading about the NN flathead Ford 8-cylinder's main use (as a
stump puller
> in first gear, and not as a speed demon in high gear), and after reading
Pat's input
> above, I just had to add my two cents.  Pat and I recently "worked a
trade" wherein
> he got my M19-AA car, and I got one (yes he has several!) of his ST2
cars.  Why?
> The "stump-puller" reason.  On the LS&I trip this year, a Fairmont car
was having
> trouble pulling the hill (2%) out of Marquette and elected to go under
tow.  Pat's
> ST2 was "the puller".  I kid you not, that ST2 was pulling that dead car
25 mph up
> the hill out of Marquette!  I just HAD to have a stump-puller after that!
 And I've got
> one now, thanks to Pat, who just HAD to have an RKB-twin car.  Although
Pat is
> correct on the ST2's speed capability, it's REAL capability is in GRUNT! 
Now
> THAT's a story!
> 
> Mike Paul
> Oshkosh, WI