COM Sports Car Club

The archives were passed to me by Rick Long about 15 years ago. They were in cardboard boxes and in sad shape. I transferred them to some plastic boxes but have not sorted the material. I'd be glad to pass them to someone who will go through them.

Mike French

I've got some good suspension and other parts which must go. Make an offer. I can ship(mail) them or bring to Canaan in April. Here is a partial list: 1. A pair of AFCO coil springs, 100lb/in, 2-5/8 ID, 14in long. New 2. Two pair of rod ends, 5/8 RH male X 1/2. New 3. Two AFCO 13in aluminum tie rods...

I'm so old, I don't know what a hiatus is. I started with COM in 1984, then "graduated" to EMRA in 1988. I was involved with COM through the early-mid '90's serving as event ops chair. Bill Miskoe took that job on after me. I quit wheel-wheel racing in 2005, but have stayed active in TT's ...

As for thread lockers in jet engines, I think that became a no-no 20 years ago. Same for tab washers and lockwire. On the SR71 we had to go from lock wire to mid-grip helicoils most everywhere. On cars, tab washers are useless. Safety wire can help, but must be done correctly-not easy. Grumpus Tab w...

Not really complicated. Just takes patience and decent post-processing.

Frenchy

The car is driven onto a lift then raised the requisite height to the dyno level. You can see a picture of it on the Dynojet web site Model 248X. Northeast charges $75 for 3 pulls, $100 per hour (customer tunes) or $125 per hour and they tune. They have wide-band. Data analyzed from last Friday's ru...

Northeast Performance in Bow (Rte 3a 1 mile south of I89) has acquired a Dynojet 2 X 48 dyno. It was formerly at Martel Racing in Manchester. I got on today with the TOYLET and made 9 runs in 2 hours with 2 carb changes, 2 ignition settings, and several cam timings. The owner, Cullen Goduti was very...

Spring rate varies with the inverse of active coil number.

Loctite, my son, loctite.