Re: Indy Star Commentary on Tony George

schla66@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Mar 6, 8:15 am, forty <cforteR3M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> alien wrote:
>>
>>> "Ken Plotkin" <kplot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> news:hg10t31dl3ti8q0d4278mg8o7ll5s15o4s@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:24:39 -0600, "alien"
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>>>> wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> To be fair, they've become everything minus the turbos (and Tony
said on
>>>>> national TV that he'd look into to getting them soon)
>>>> I'd hate to see turbos come back.  I just remember too many pop-off
>>>> valve incidents.  They were fun when there was a mix of equivalencies
>>>> - especially when they gave the Offy a few more years of glory - but
>>>> as a standard engine type they're just an extra expense.
>>>> Ken Plotkin
>>> But they sound so great!  Has it been that long since you've heard an
>>> Indy car with a turbo in it that you've forgot?
>>> I remember them being a problem many years ago, but not lately in
Champ
>>> Car. I'm not tech savvy enough to know why it hasn't been a problem
>>> lately.  Are the pop off valves built better now?
>>> alien
>>> alien
>> Depends on your time-frame. If you are thinking of the all-Cosworth,
>> rev-limited time period, I don't believe there were pop-off valve
issues
>> since everyone was running a detuned engine-turbo combo. Also, pop-off
>> valves disappeared with the DP01.
>>
>> --
>> forty
>>
>> "There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I like
>> to think that I walk that line every day of my life."
> 
> are you one of those IRL trolls,  or are you just simply mistaken?
> 

Neither.

> DP-01's still have pop off valves...
> 

No they don't.

> http://www.champcar.ws/Tech/ChampCar_Specs.asp

I put the question to you: is that chassis a Lola or a Panoz?

For your consideration:
http://www.champcar.ws/News/Article.asp?ID=11248

-- 
forty

"There's a very fine line between not listening, and not caring. I like 
to think that I walk that line every day of my life."