[KD]

Clean up car, broke old world record, last years attendance of races and char show 3 million peopl, had our own TV show on WealthTV and were featured on a lot of other cable and local TV shows. And this year looks even busier! We now have a brochure (http://ssiracing.com/SSI_brochure.pdf)

We also build an electric 1927 model T roadster that we took to Pinks All Out Bakersfield last weekend (great, exhausting time) http://ssiracing.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=197&title=pinks-all-out-this-weekend

Cheers,

KD

 

[Russ Thompson]

Congrats KD, I see the coupe every now and again in mags and some TV. It's only going to get more popular as the hybrids take over! ;-}

 

[theboppshop]

Very unique interpretation of our beloved coupe!

Check out their brochure ... lots of interesting products.

Garry

 

[JackLawrenceXXX]

Besides a big stereo that plays engine rumble, I know EXACTLY what that car needs! Where our side pipes are... they need a 5 inch thick red electrical wire... with a big blue 'Crimp' near the middle...

I wonder how rast the windshield wipers run on it... would be funny to have them running 3X the normal speed!

 

[RobbieD]

You're right Jack. There is something missing there. I was thinking a string of outlets, but your idea is good too.

Sure is cool!!

Rob

 

[JackLawrenceXXX]

he's just 2 headlight covers and (something!) where our side pipes are away from a finished looking car!

Anyone have contact info for him?

Oh, and some white lettering on the red plastic wire... kind of 'silkscreened' looking...

 

[Ken Stroh]

Even better sound....

I've been working on the "car of the future" since 1991 based on hydrogen fuel cells (i.e., produces electric output like a battery but consumes a fuel [hydrogen, which can be made domestically from most anything] and can be refueled in minutes instead of recharged and only produces water, heat and electricity). I've told influential people for years that the missing technology is the audio component -- I saw a TV car show years ago where Honda was working on active sound cancellation. The idea is that you have a microphone outside the car, a really fast computer, and and audio system that takes the audio "noise" waveform, inverts it, and sends a signal through the speakers that when added to what was already there "cancels" the noise - net effect silence (like the airplane headphones Bose and now others sell). But the best part was, the show I saw had an added feature... The driver could move a selector switch between choices like "American V8" or "Ferrari V12," that would be fed through the speakers and synchronized to "engine" rpm to "make it sound and feel like a real car." If we have to go green, we have to have this....

Ken

 

[mmarshall]

I did a test flight program on a noise cancelling system on a turbo-prop. It had 6 8" woofers that were maxed out trying to kill the noise in the cabin. It helped but it was still loud inside. I cannot imagine the size woofers it would take to cancel the noise of a loud exhaust.

I guess with a bazillion watts of battery power anything is possible.

I would like to see a hydrogen powered coupe just feeding hydrogen to the v8.

 

[Ken Stroh]

I would like to see a hydrogen powered coupe just feeding hydrogen to the v8.

There is a roadster with a 427 FE and stack injection running hydrogen - I'll see if I can find a link. I saw it at a Department of Energy hydrogen program meeting and talked to the guy - Shelby gave him the car to modify for free (or more likely a tax deduction as it was a university). Even I would think better of 'Ol Shel if he'd give me a free 427 roadster....

Ken

 

[Ken Stroh]

Update to above

http://www.clean-air.org/Hydrogen Cobra Story/Hydrogen Cobra.htm

Why less hp on gaseous H2?? Answer: Lots of energy in carbon bonds (more than breaking a hydrogen bond, but makes CO or CO2 where combining hydrogen with oxygen produces only water).... a "hydrocarbon fuel" contains both hydrogen and carbon.....

Other examples??

http://gas2.org/2009/06/21/jesse-james-sets-hydrogen-powered-land-speed-record/

So, .... what if you don't want to combust hydrogen

http://www.cardevotion.com/Article/219/Ford-sets-fuel-cell-land-speed-record.html

Ken