Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Would rather have a Steve Morris SMX...




They dont, from what I understand, "warm up". They run no coolant as the blocks are solid and the oil is pre-warmed and circulated.
I'm aware of how it works.

They definitely start them and let them run up before they race after rebuild and before staging. They check timing, go over everything, and put some heat in it. You don't heat the oil and run the block cold and full throttle immediately.

I'm related to someone who worked on them, and I hung around owner/drivers. As well as previous world record holding door slammers.
 
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A lot of the time at brandings, the kids who are too little to wrestle will take the nuts from us cutters and carry them over to a bucket.

Saves us OG's some steps

Well one time this little girl walked up to me and I handed her another pair but her hands were full already.
She looked down at them, smiled at me and stuffed them in her coat pockets
She kept this up for the rest of the branding

Boy did we catch hell from her mother when we got back to the house for dinner and drink:ROFLMAO:🤠
 
We were playing with the Navy fleet one day many years ago of the southern Comifornia coast. Had a flight of four F-4Gs. I was coordinating with them on the phone and asked if we could do a flyby after we were done. Was told to just not go supersonic over the deck. Outstanding!!

Get down there a there was a solid marine layer all the way to the water. Fuck.
Solid marine layer?

Whats that, never heard the term

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The California current comes down from Alaska. The ocean off of the coast of Cali is cold (ever Notice all the surfers there are in wet suits and nobody is in the water at the beaches?)

the result is a fog layer just offshore over the water called the Marine Layer. When the inland valley heats up it causes the air to rise, this has the effect of pulling air in toward the coast from the ocean the result is that you get areas completely socked in during the summer. (I worked at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station for 18 months).
There are lots of images, but this one provides scale :)

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Moro Bay can look like a set from a vampire movie for days on end. Fog swirling around looks like something from a stage performance
 
The California current comes down from Alaska. The ocean off of the coast of Cali is cold (ever Notice all the surfers there are in wet suits and nobody is in the water at the beaches?)

the result is a fog layer just offshore over the water called the Marine Layer. When the inland valley heats up it causes the air to rise, this has the effect of pulling air in toward the coast from the ocean the result is that you get areas completely socked in during the summer. (I worked at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station for 18 months).
There are lots of images, but this one provides scale :)

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Moro Bay can look like a set from a vampire movie for days on end. Fog swirling around looks like something from a stage performance
I don't have any pictures of what that looked like at the house in San Pedro, CA. The marine layer would come in just below our deck. Looked pretty cool standing on the deck and looking towards Catalina.
 
Reminds of a crash that killed four teenagers from our town when I was a kid. Coming back from Ft Lee they were flying on 9W lost control and hit a giant tree and all killed instantly. We rode our bikes to where the car was towed and looked just like this.
Obviously a NJ guy. There was one tragic accident that happened on Lindsley Rd between Little Falls and Singac. Long hill with two RR crossings, which were basically "jumps' for the ballsy/stupid. Apparently around the time of graduation a group of kids went joyriding and launched off of one of the crossings in a major way...didn't land unto 100 ft or so downhill, and took out a large pillar made of brick at the end of a driveway. Everyone in the car died.
 
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