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Jeff Higgins · 07-14-2023, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by asphaltgambler

The Ford Cammer was the only production engine to have fully machined intake, exhaust ports and combustion chamber. It was designed from the start as a high RPM, endurance race engine with no compromise

From what I remember, it was really no more than SOHC heads and a timing chain housing bolted to an exist Ford big block, like the FE or 428.

From what Jim Green and my neighbor told me, this less than fully developed cam drive was its achilles heel. Very difficult to set cam timing and, once set, it didn't hold it. Too much "whip" in the chain while it was running. Had it not been virtually immediately banned by our two most influential sanctioning bodies, Ford might have finished development. Probably would have changed the game. Very cool motors.

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VINMAN · 07-14-2023, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

It must be a sad pizza town when the best pizza is at a Mexican place.

There isn't a pizza place in the NY/NJ area that doesn't have a Mexican making the pizza...

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Kendall Green Bike Club in front of Faculty Row, 1885.

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Well, it is mounted, just not right.

View of Saturn's moon Hyperion as captured by Cassini spacecraft

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Extras waiting to be called on the RKO Culver back lot (aka 40 Acres) for GONE WITH THE WIND

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Team McLaren,1968 7 litre Chevy alloy LT1 ‘Rat Motor’. 4.25 inch standard bore and 3.76 inch stroke with Moldex steel crank, Cloyes roller timing chains, cam by Vince Piggins group at Chev R&D. Production solid lifters, Forgedtrue pistons and Carillo rods. Dry sump pumps by Weaver and magnesium dry sump pans by Chev R&D. The L88 heads had 2.19/1.84 inch intake/exhaust valves with the ports enlarged and re-shaped. Crane aluminium roller-rockers. Magnesium intake manifolds had a 2.9 inch bore for each cylinder with a fuel injector into each of the curved and tuned length steel velocity stacks. Intakes were modified Crower with MacKay making the intakes, Lucas metering unit, Vetex magneto and tach drives from magnesium. That lot generated a real 650 bhp @ 7600 rpm with McLaren quoting 620 in-period . In ’68 the M8A won 4 of the 6 rounds and Denny the title. McLarens won every round of the series
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Steve Carlton · 07-15-2023, 03:17 PM

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/nsu-ep4-electric-sports-car/

Makes me think of how cool a BMW 2002 EV could be.

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Trinity: Site Selection
In early 1944, physicist Kenneth Bainbridge was put in charge of the test to prove that the complex implosion version of the atomic bomb, the Gadget, later called Fat Man, would work. The first step was to find a location; it had to be available, flat, barren, remote, desolate, far from settlements, and close enough to Los Alamos to be practical for the many trips the scientists would make, but far enough away so that the connection was not obvious. Using maps, Bainbridge selected eight possible sites, including ones in California and Texas, and then narrowed them down to three in New Mexico.
That May, Bainbridge, Oppenheimer, and a team of Army officers set off through late spring snow in three-quarter-ton weapons carriers with food and sleeping bags to see the sites in person. The one they chose was about 220 miles south of Los Alamos, in the Jornada del Muerto desert. It was on what was then the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, now the White Sands Missile Range. Bainbridge described it as “deserted areas of dry farming lands, beaten by too many years of drought and high winds.” General Groves said that the “remote Jornada was a good choice for the test because it provided isolation for secrecy and safety.” The range commander allowed Bainbridge to choose a 422 square mile (1093 square kilometer) area for use by the Manhattan Project. When asked for a name for the test and site, Oppenheimer chose Trinity, although later he couldn’t remember why.
Just a little over a year later, on July 16, 1945, following months of preparation, it was the scene of the first human-created nuclear explosion, the Trinity Test.
#ManhattanProjectNPS #WWII #YourParkStory #TrinityTest #WorldWarII
Image Caption: An astronaut photo of the Jornada del Muerto area, with the arrow pointing to the Trinity Site; 11/8/2003.
Image Credit: Image courtesy of Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.

"The world's largest wooden ocean liner was on its way to Jersey Harbor when it received a distress call from the MRCC (Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centres) from a small sailboat that had lost its rudder and started drifting. As the 58m Götheborg was nearest to the vessel in distress, he answered the call and took the sailing vessel in tow during the night of 26 April. The story was shared by the captain of the rescued sailboat, Corto, David Moeneclaey: “On April 26th we left Cherbourg and headed for Camaret (tip of Brittany) to take the boat to South Brittany. At 1530 we were more than 50 nautical miles from shore when our rudder broke. After sending a Pan-Pan call on the VHF radio, the three-masted sailboat Götheborg responded and offered to tow us to Paimpol. We were perplexed by the difference in size between the two ships, as we were afraid that a ship too large and too fast might be towing us, which might damage ours. The Götheborg quickly arrived on the scene, but her appearance was quite surprising, as we did not expect one of the merchant vessels of the East India Company to appear. We wondered if we were dreaming, where we were, at what age. Götheborg came very close to us, so that it could certainly hand over its thick tow rope. The thing went well, so our destinies were connected for many hours, while we communicated with each other on the radio. The next day, as we approached the French coast, we radioed for help entering the port, but we did not receive a favorable response. About noon the Götheborg came as close as possible to us, and remained by us until the arrival of the French lifeboat, to make sure we were all right before letting us go. It was an incredible adventure, I consider ourselves extremely lucky that the Götheborg was blown into our path by the wind, with this professional and kind crew." The Götheborg of Sweden is a copy of the Götheborg I, launched in 1738 and sunk in 1745. The ship was launched in 2003, built using traditional techniques, but while the exterior remains true to the original, the interior is extremely modern: it was equipped with an on-board electrical system and a diesel engine."