[email protected] wrote:
>I'll chime in.
>Speaking oly of Friday Night's NEDRA activities, it was quite a scene.
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Agreed! After much worrying over whether or not this important landmark
EVent in NEDRA history might be a bust with key racers not showing up,
for me, it was the non racers who showed up, that saved the day(s)! A
huge thank you goes out to all who brought their EVs and put them on
display in the NEDRA pit area! Some went to great lengths to do so, too.
The two biggest hits had to be Myles' 1921 Milburn vintage EV and Bill
Bruder's outrageous 'Wind Wagon', but everyone's EVs on display were
appreciated by those of us racing...thanks, everyone!
>Probably 2 dozen or more EV's at the races and at least 10 race EV's.
>The racing EV's that I saw Friday night (until about 10:30pm) included:
>* White Zombie (Wayland's 70's Datsun)
>* Orange Poppy (Otmar's 914)
>* Cobra EV
>* Dave Cloud's Geo
>* Rick Barnes' compact
>* Don Crabtree's FrankenDragon electric motorcycle
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In addition to the above, Plasma Boy Racing team member Chris Brune
raced his Honda, and Tom True's 'Silver Bullet' Datsun Z Car (a Father
Time creation) was raced by his son, Ricky.
>Along with these there were other EV's present including:
>* Viktor Tikhonov's Honda CRX
>* Tim Kutscha's red 914
>* The 5' diam propeller powered land buggy (raced at Woodburn a number of years ago)
>* A couple of PHEV's
>* My 1921 Milburn Light Electric coupe
>* An electric Datsun pickup
>* Rod Wilde's Gone Postal van
>* Rich Rudman's Goldie(?)---didn't see it there but assumed it was there
>* I'm sure there were several others
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Goldie stayed home this time. Along with Victor's ACRX, a second AC
powered car was also on display, Gary Graunke's lithium powered Honda
Insight.
>I didn't catch all the racing, but did see Tim Brehm take the White Zombie to a 12.2sec finish and later heard John Wayland come by saying that in another run the Zombie and its competitor both runed 12.0 somethings...
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Yes, the best race of the entire weekend had to be this race Myles is
talking about! He's right on about the ET, as both White Zombie and the
super hot gen. 3 Mazda turbo RX7 ran 12.0 ETs. A video of this shoot-out
will be up and the Plasma Boy Racing web site's video page. It started
with the burn-outs...the Mazda was LOUD and put on an impressive tire
burn that had folks cheering in the stands, or was it Tim's l-o-n-g tire
burn in White Zombie that had everyone cheering? In any EVent, the
dualing burn-outs were terrific, followed by near identical launches,
followed by near identical ramp-ups to speed, followed by a photo finish
at the end! Final ETs were 12.056 for WZ and 12.062 for the turbo RX7.
Saturday night was almost a total rain-out (in August?), but cranking up
the battery current first to 1500 amps, we did manage to get two good
runs in with an 11.97 @ 108.56 mph for our first run of the night
(running an 11 for the first run of the night has never happened) and an
11.882 @ 109.58 mph for the final run we got in. The 11.8 was the
quickest ET any street legal electric car has ever run on lead acid
batteries! We still had the 3:70 gears in the car left over from last
month's experiment with the lithium batteries. The 2580 lb. car's weight
was dropped to just 1858 lbs. in July, and with the car being so light,
even with tall 3:70 gears the 60 ft. time was an impressive 1.58
seconds. Tim and I reasoned that with the lead pack back in the car and
the additional ~ 100 lbs. of the 6 point roll bar, that with the now ~
2652 lb. curb weight (28 lbs. saved due to an aluminum rear end
swap-in), that we should have put the 4:11 gears back in...we were
right. The 60 ft. time, even with extra battery amps dialed in, suffered
and went up to 1.74 seconds :-( We lost nearly 2/10 seconds right
there, so it's reasonable to assume that had we put the 4:11 gears back
in, that the 11.8 might have been an 11.6...not too bad, considering the
car being nearly 2700 lbs.! The Enersys 14 lb. batteries (formerly
Hawker) dished out the 750 amps each without any trauma whatsoever. We
'did' fan cool the packs between runs to keep them from fogging the
Lexan covers, and it worked as planned. Today, Sunday, every battery in
the twin packs is sitting at right near 13V each.
>I also saw the electric Cobra turn something like 12.2sec in its first run using what looked like an array of DeWalt lithium packs.
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That was Mike Kadie's car. It never got into the 12s, but it did run a
13.6 run (going from memory here) the first time on the track, then with
the A123 lithium pack (yes, gleaned from multiple DeWalt drill packs)
turned up a little higher to 1100 amps, an impressive 13.1 @ 94 mph with
street tires still pumped up to 40 psi...he had never drag raced before!
Do to technical problems and uncertain weather late in the night, on
Saturday Mike did not get to return to the track and get into the 12s,
which he surely would have done with the cheater slicks he was going to
put on. We'll all be hearing more from him, I'm sure, especially
considering his pack can easily belt out 2000 amps.
>I saw the aftermath of a run that Dave Cloud's car made---a situation that shut the track down for at least 30minutes and causing the loudest and fastest gas cars to have to quit racing for the evening.
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Yeah, too bad for the Cloud racing guys :-( Thankfully, no one got
hurt. Thanks to Dave and his crew for once again, making it to our racing.
See Ya.....John Wayland
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