cannonball run
05-12-2011, 03:12 PM
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Whats with all the pussies here? I've done rallies before, we drove over 120mph for 6 hours straight. I think we went 180 miles or so without even touching the brakes! GTO handled it great...the f-body isn't meant for that kind of ****. And if its stock, you may end up blowing it up. Get a real car before doing the event.
05-12-2011, 05:21 PM
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this thread might need closed
anyway just being nice, I alway travel long distant. here what I do before taking a trip and what I alway brought with me
1: Check your tire condition and pressure
2: Check Coolant condition and level
3: Change your oil and filter
4: check and clean your air filter, mabe replace if need
5: Check your tranmission fluid level and change it need
6: Check your rear diff fluid level and change or add if need
7: Check your power steering fluid add if need
8: check upper and lower radiator hose replace if need
9: check your belt
10: check your brake fluid and clutch fluid add if need
11: Check your battery
12: check and add windshield wiper fluid and wiper blade
13: Check your brake pad and rotor
Thing to bring with you
Tire pressure guage
Car jack
1-5quart oil and NEW OIL FILTER
1 gallon of new coolant
1 quart of brake fluid and power steering fluid
electric tape
set of common tool
paper tower
water ,red bull
GPS
When fill up your car add a bottle of Chevron techron fuel injector cleaner and add another bottle when way home.
flashlight with battery
Good luck and have a safe fun trip.
anyway just being nice, I alway travel long distant. here what I do before taking a trip and what I alway brought with me
1: Check your tire condition and pressure
2: Check Coolant condition and level
3: Change your oil and filter
4: check and clean your air filter, mabe replace if need
5: Check your tranmission fluid level and change it need
6: Check your rear diff fluid level and change or add if need
7: Check your power steering fluid add if need
8: check upper and lower radiator hose replace if need
9: check your belt
10: check your brake fluid and clutch fluid add if need
11: Check your battery
12: check and add windshield wiper fluid and wiper blade
13: Check your brake pad and rotor
Thing to bring with you
Tire pressure guage
Car jack
1-5quart oil and NEW OIL FILTER
1 gallon of new coolant
1 quart of brake fluid and power steering fluid
electric tape
set of common tool
paper tower
water ,red bull
GPS
When fill up your car add a bottle of Chevron techron fuel injector cleaner and add another bottle when way home.
flashlight with battery
Good luck and have a safe fun trip.
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05-16-2011, 07:06 AM
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For the smarmy, milquetoast pansies whining in this thread:
Erwin "Cannon Ball" Baker
At a glance, most people today might think "big deal" at the records he set driving across the United States. They hardly look impressive when considering the speed at which we can now traverse the continent. The important bit of context here is, that way back when there was no Interstate Highway System. In fact, most roads weren't even paved, let alone set up for ease of driving from one coast to the other. I've always thought this guy was a revolutionary. One of the first "speed freaks." He was Brock Yates inspiration behind the real Cannonball Run Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash back in the 70s. I would certainly recommend reading Yates book Cannonball! for a few more interesting bits of anarchy on the subject, but that is a separate story.
Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker (March 12, 1882 – May 10, 1960) was a motorcycle and automobile racing driver and organizer in the first half of the 20th century. Baker began his public career as a vaudeville performer, but turned to driving and racing after winning a dirt-track motorcycle race in Crawfordsville, Indiana in about 1904.
Baker was also famous for his record-setting point-to-point drives, in which he was paid to promote the products of various motorcycle and automobile manufacturers. In all, he made 143 cross-country motorcycle speed runs totaling about 5,500,000 miles (8,850,000 km).
In 1908, Baker purchased an Indian motorcycle and began entering and winning local races. His most famous victory came in 1909 at the first race ever held at the newly built Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Baker also raced at the 1922 Indianapolis 500, placing 11th in a Frontenac. He later became the first commissioner of NASCAR. Baker was inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998.
Edwin "Cannonball" Baker in New York with his Indian motorcycle after his 1912 transcontinental journey.
Baker was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1882. "Bake" undertook his first big adventure in January 1912. He left Indianapolis on a two-speed Indian and covered 14,000 miles in three months, traveling through Florida, down to Cuba and Jamaica, and then to Panama. He took a steamer up to San Diego where he based himself for a while and from there he competed in several endurance runs in both California and Arizona. It was during this time that Baker decided he would attempt to break the transcontinental record. After a record-setting transcontinental drive in 1914, he received his nickname "Cannon Ball" from a New York newspaper writer who compared him to the Cannonball train of the Illinois Central made famous by Casey Jones.[1] Baker died in 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is buried there in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Records
Baker set 143 driving records from the 1910s through the 1930s. His first was set in 1914, riding coast to coast on an Indian motorcycle in 11 days. He normally rode to sponsor manufacturers, guaranteeing them "no record, no money".
In 1915, Baker drove from Los Angeles to New York City in 11 days, 7 hours and fifteen minutes in a Stutz Bearcat, and the following year drove a Cadillac 8 roadster from Los Angeles to Times Square in seven days, eleven hours and fifty-two minutes while accompanied by an Indianapolis newspaper reporter. In 1924 he made his first midwinter transcontinental run in a stock Gardner sedan at a time of 4 days, 14 hours and 15 minutes. He was so impressed by the car, that he purchased one thereafter.[2] In 1926 he drove a loaded two-ton truck from New York to San Francisco in a record five days, seventeen hours and thirty minutes, and in 1928, he beat the 20th Century Limited train from New York to Chicago. Also in 1928, he competed in the Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race, and set a record time of 14:49.6 seconds, driving a Franklin.[3]
His best-remembered drive was a 1933 New York City to Los Angeles trek in a Graham-Paige model 57 Blue Streak 8, setting a 53.5 hour record that stood for nearly 40 years. This drive inspired the later Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, better known as the "Cannonball Run", which itself inspired at least five movies and a television series. In 1941, he drove a new Crosley Covered Wagon across the nation in a troublefree 6,517-mile (10,488 km) run to prove the economy and reliability characteristics of Crosley automobiles. Other record and near-record transcontinental trips were made in Model T Fords, Chrysler Imperials, Marmons, Falcon-Knights and Columbia Tigers, among others.
Erwin "Cannon Ball" Baker
At a glance, most people today might think "big deal" at the records he set driving across the United States. They hardly look impressive when considering the speed at which we can now traverse the continent. The important bit of context here is, that way back when there was no Interstate Highway System. In fact, most roads weren't even paved, let alone set up for ease of driving from one coast to the other. I've always thought this guy was a revolutionary. One of the first "speed freaks." He was Brock Yates inspiration behind the real Cannonball Run Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash back in the 70s. I would certainly recommend reading Yates book Cannonball! for a few more interesting bits of anarchy on the subject, but that is a separate story.
Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker (March 12, 1882 – May 10, 1960) was a motorcycle and automobile racing driver and organizer in the first half of the 20th century. Baker began his public career as a vaudeville performer, but turned to driving and racing after winning a dirt-track motorcycle race in Crawfordsville, Indiana in about 1904.
Baker was also famous for his record-setting point-to-point drives, in which he was paid to promote the products of various motorcycle and automobile manufacturers. In all, he made 143 cross-country motorcycle speed runs totaling about 5,500,000 miles (8,850,000 km).
In 1908, Baker purchased an Indian motorcycle and began entering and winning local races. His most famous victory came in 1909 at the first race ever held at the newly built Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Baker also raced at the 1922 Indianapolis 500, placing 11th in a Frontenac. He later became the first commissioner of NASCAR. Baker was inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998.
Edwin "Cannonball" Baker in New York with his Indian motorcycle after his 1912 transcontinental journey.
Baker was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1882. "Bake" undertook his first big adventure in January 1912. He left Indianapolis on a two-speed Indian and covered 14,000 miles in three months, traveling through Florida, down to Cuba and Jamaica, and then to Panama. He took a steamer up to San Diego where he based himself for a while and from there he competed in several endurance runs in both California and Arizona. It was during this time that Baker decided he would attempt to break the transcontinental record. After a record-setting transcontinental drive in 1914, he received his nickname "Cannon Ball" from a New York newspaper writer who compared him to the Cannonball train of the Illinois Central made famous by Casey Jones.[1] Baker died in 1960 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is buried there in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Records
Baker set 143 driving records from the 1910s through the 1930s. His first was set in 1914, riding coast to coast on an Indian motorcycle in 11 days. He normally rode to sponsor manufacturers, guaranteeing them "no record, no money".
In 1915, Baker drove from Los Angeles to New York City in 11 days, 7 hours and fifteen minutes in a Stutz Bearcat, and the following year drove a Cadillac 8 roadster from Los Angeles to Times Square in seven days, eleven hours and fifty-two minutes while accompanied by an Indianapolis newspaper reporter. In 1924 he made his first midwinter transcontinental run in a stock Gardner sedan at a time of 4 days, 14 hours and 15 minutes. He was so impressed by the car, that he purchased one thereafter.[2] In 1926 he drove a loaded two-ton truck from New York to San Francisco in a record five days, seventeen hours and thirty minutes, and in 1928, he beat the 20th Century Limited train from New York to Chicago. Also in 1928, he competed in the Mount Washington Hillclimb Auto Race, and set a record time of 14:49.6 seconds, driving a Franklin.[3]
His best-remembered drive was a 1933 New York City to Los Angeles trek in a Graham-Paige model 57 Blue Streak 8, setting a 53.5 hour record that stood for nearly 40 years. This drive inspired the later Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, better known as the "Cannonball Run", which itself inspired at least five movies and a television series. In 1941, he drove a new Crosley Covered Wagon across the nation in a troublefree 6,517-mile (10,488 km) run to prove the economy and reliability characteristics of Crosley automobiles. Other record and near-record transcontinental trips were made in Model T Fords, Chrysler Imperials, Marmons, Falcon-Knights and Columbia Tigers, among others.
11-06-2011, 06:46 PM
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Im going to be participating in the great american run 3000miles of nonstop driving. Im going to be driving my baby (1994 Camaro Z28 LT1). What will i need to keep the car cool and safe because this rally is going to be intense nonstop 24 hour 90+mph driving and even when i get into the desert ill be pushing and cruising at above 130+mph from Miami to L.A. what will i need to keep my car cool and prevent overheating, the only breaks the car will have is gas refills and wont be staying at any hotels... any tips? nascar radiator? extra fans?
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Hey guys its me and im gonna be going on a road trip in 2 weeks and me and my best friend a owner of an 2007 BMW M6 and were gonna visit some family in santa monica california and where driving there, we will be cruising high speed(120-140mph) at a constant 3000-5000rpms through the deserts of the west for long periods of time. I have a stock 1994 Z28 with few bolt ons, pacesetter LT's with side cutouts and no cats, and was wondering what tricks and ideas on keeping the car COOL. i still have a stock radiator from 1994. would replacing for a thicker core rad help? i have brand new fresh Perelli P Zeros on rated (Y). i wouldn't want over heating in the desert then detonation then me being stuck in death valley lol. i guess this is a test for endurance on our engines, so any tips would be appreciated
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don't ask me how I stumbled upon this. But for some reason I think LTX is having an identity crisis, or a bit of a ground hog day effect.
11-06-2011, 11:45 PM
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there are holes in this story some where... I was bored and tried to connect the dots... I read a few of each members posts and it is without a doubt the same person... just... well here's and example of what I mean, check attachments. This guy needs a vacation from tech.
Why did I just waste 10 minutes of my life?
Why did I just waste 10 minutes of my life?
