Theoretical minimum rate
Posted by:
c benson (IP Logged)
Date: October 19, 2002 08:32PM
<HTML>And in fact the entire car effectivly becomes part of the ''flywheel'' mass as it is geared direct,,,/// Relative to gas cars,,on this,,,I rode w/6 people in a Packard V12 a '39 i think,,the owner Jack Sipel from Phillie/[who was at Harvard Med school then] in highgear at a slow walk,,, SLOW,,,steped on the brake,,,,,STOPPED,, Just momentarily,,,The cyl had pressure apon releasing the brake,,the piston was pushed down by the pressure in the cyl,,Just enough to allow the next cyl to fire [60 crank deg] and we were umder way,,,,XXXX we didnt believe what we had witnessed,,,,Jack being a good sport ,,did it again 2 more times,,,He had 2 Packards a '17 &39 SO what we can take from this is temp of cyl is important,,,an' how long U expect the cyl to hold pressure,,,But is this of any importance We usually want to do a HOLE SHOT ,,,an as long as its controlable to get it into a parkin spot its ok,, A user friendly Stanley throttle is controllable to the degree that to tell if U are moving or not , U may need to line up the edge of the running board w/ blades of grass,,,this I discovered when I drove Ralph VanDine's '13 10hp for the first time ,,,,,The word controllable comes to have a different meaning,,XXXX,The central drum on the LaMont probably could pass clean through a modern car//left to right[not lengthwise] if U got a sling shot powerful enough to launch, it,,,,,Yeh it could explode,,,but what pressure did you have in mind,,,,,Gas car flywheels also''explode'' but it is not a common occurance,,,,Cheers Ben</HTML>