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I do hope you can find more to share with us David, you're photo's are excellent and always a pleasure to view!
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Mac Tug of War
Disregard the fact that my video is rubbish, I've put onto YouTube warts and all.
At Welland the following McLaren bout took place - In the blue corner we have New Zealand Double Crank Compound 1242 and in the red corner Cornish Tandem Compound 897:
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nice to see the engine built as maclaren intended won against the cornish creation obviously maclaren couldn't be improved. i was supprised as i'd have thought colossus was heavier therefore getting more traction?? possibly the compound couldn't stall so easily so had a better pull. interesting in my brief look round friday that the extra cylinder on colossus didn't look to be jacketed. i wonder how much use it actually was?
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Similarly whilst them earthmover tyres are about the ugliest things you could ever put on an engine, they seem to grip well on anything, opened out fork truck tyres only seem to grip well on tar or stones, not so good in fields. It would have been more interesting to see them with the diffs locked
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Not if it is in half decent order and you do not do it every day . The engines were built to withstand the maximum torque which they could develop , otherwise they would have been self destructing , and no use to anyone .
It is interesting that , unlike other builders of road engines , McLarens did not have separate draught straps , but the draught was taken through the tank . I have never heard that they were any the worse for this . |
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And I was there to see it.. Chhhuuufffffff...............Chuuffffffffffff..... ..........BANG!....Ch..Ch..Ch..Ch..Ch..Ch..Ch..Ch. .Ch..Ch..!!!!! unfortunately I don't think I got a photo. Good job you were in the right place to have a new one made!
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here is a vid of the 2 macs on the sledge on saturday night ?
sorry about the alto focus gets better near the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxETiR89eGk |
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