Re: Indy Star Commentary on Tony George

"alien" <nofenders@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "forty" <cforteR3M0V3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Mar 6, 8:15 am, forty <cforteR3M...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> alien wrote:
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> >>>> "Ken Plotkin" <kplot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>> 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."
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> That would explain why I hadn't heard them mentioned last year.  They
> weren't even used.
> Thanks Forty!
>
> alien

An ability to read a series website (which you're obviously
unable to independently accomplish solely on your own),
no doubt an additional demonstration of that "expertise"
for which he's so deservedly "renowned". To quote a line
from Star Trek: "I'm laughing at the superior intellect(s)".