10-27-2014, 09:44 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Portland,
OR
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA - B2Motorsports Dart 331
Posts: 464
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It has much to do with authors that have tested their stuff and taken the effort to document it. PM me your address and I will send you a couple of good ones. You could check out corner-carvers.com - a great place for you to start and it is free. You do read?
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Wiki - Carroll moved to Europe where he befriended John Cooper. Driving a Formula Junior Cooper, he won his first race. After waning success in the Cooper cars, followed by a characteristically clear-eyed personal assessment that he lacked the ability to drive race cars at the highest levels, he returned to the United States and began working with Carroll Shelby and the Ford Motor Company on the GT40 Le Mans program. Smith oversaw the preparation on the cars that won the 1966 and 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Carroll Smith Books . The Official Carroll Smith Site
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Next time you are at the track, take your infra-red and measure the tarmac temp. 
"I'm going to build a ram air system for my Cobra, but since I can't figure out any other way, I'll just pull in the hottest external air I can find and call it a day." 
I had an idea for you - what about putting an air to water heat exchanger in your lower air intake tract and cooling the charge much the way Ford cools their inter-coolers.
Please share what "out of the box" thinking you see in Johns car?
x-chr
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