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Originally Posted by Cd
Phil I know the Texas Mile is not long enough of a track to attain full speed, but wouldn't it be useful somehow ?
It's less than two hundred miles from your house.
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With the low power I need all the distance I can get to the mile trap.
At Bonneville there's always a slim chance that I can run the long course,which is 6-miles of W.O.T. acceleration.
Low power streamliners need all the room they can get to reach terminal velocity and Texas Mile just doesn't allow for that.My neighbor Charles Farmer has the 'Yellow Submarine',Ford SHO-powered streamliner,and he has used Texas mile regularly for fuel system checks but couldn't possibly 'see' the cars potential without the Salt Flats.
I'll have reason to be going to Alpine,Tx for astronomy and may go by the Texas Mile just to look,but I really can't see it as a resource for what I'm doing.
Conversely,I am now very interested in buying some wind tunnel time at GM.The road-testing is extremely problematical for data acquisition,and each year I appreciate the value of large-scale tunnels,even at $2,000/hour.