I had a friend with a 72 6 cyl duster, he came back bragging he blew off a 340 duster, us chevy guys were like only plymouth could make a 340 that could get blown off by a 6 cyl
AND THAT IS DANGEROUSā¦Do yourself (and everyone on the road with you) and learn. The MAX pressure is just that MAX. Itāll also give a weight per tire. You havenāt a clue what youāre talking about.
35 may be a little low for optimal footprint. But at 48psi the footprint will be almost non-existent. Th is can actually be calculated with a little 7th grade math.
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Simple - either he lied, or the 340 was running on 4 cylinders. I had a '72 Duster 6, sloooooow.
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Actually, yes, it will (much of the lift comes from the body):
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Yup!
More then likely, the person with the allegedly āfastā 6-cylinder Duster became either a used car salesman or a politician.
Donāt discount the possibility that the guy driving the 340 Duster wasnāt racing him.
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I was flying my radio control model of a Piper J3 Cub and a spectator walked up to me and asked about that airplane. I carefully explained that because the airfoil on this plane was flat on the bottom and rounded on the top, it was impossible to fly it upside down, even as the plane I was flying was contradicting everything I just said by making an upside down pass over the runway.
He got the joke and laughed out loud.
Used to be in the RC scene pretty heavily and so was one of my brothers. After painstakingly building a P51 replica and on its maiden flight crashing it into a lone rock in the middle of a large open field, my other brother said dryly- I can see why you like this hobby.
Your post reminded me of a funny old saying we had- with enough power, even a two by four can flyā¦
That plane flew surprisingly well inverted and surprisingly to me, required very little trim change while inverted. Cambered wings have whatās called a āpitching momentā and a wing with a positive pitching moment while upright has a negative pitching moment when inverted and that may have offset the normal trim change needed when flying inverted.
Moving the center of gravity rearwards also minimizes the trim change during inverted flying. Go past a critical point and suddenly thereās no such thing as trim or stability. Nose heavy planes fly badly but tail heavy planes only fly once and itās one wild rodeo from takeoff to the crash.
You must not live in MN. If you donāt have a garage it can easily take 10-15 min for a car to warm up. In addition to freezing your buns off, your breath condenses and frosts up the windshield creating a potentially dangerous situation.
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Have you considered buying a car with heated seats? I think that they are a great solution to winter temperature conditions.
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Had a grandfather-in-law (who I never met), that was so cheapā¦
How cheap did you ask? So cheap that he would run an oil heater under the car in the barn rather than pay the price of that new-fangled stuff, antifreeze.
Of course that also burned down the barn, the house, and all his and wifeās art works. Priorities? He left the family a good inheritance decades later, but I wonder what quality of life people have for themselves worrying about every last penny.
Cannot take it with you!
Did he not realize the water could freeze in the radiator while driving?
Iām so cheap that I tailgate someone using their windshield washer so the washer fluid spray will get on my windshield.
Your car warms up faster if you are driving it and you leave a window open some and exhale through your nose to keep the windshield from fogging.
I do realize that some people are less tolerant of cold than others. I canāt tolerate heat much myself. When it gets up to 80, Iām like an old dog, I just want to lie under the porch.
Thanks for reminding me to stop whining when itās 100+ in our San Antonio summers, as our winters are usually frost-free.
Dang, itās 49 degrees right now at Lake Travis. FORTY NINE DEGREES!!. Iām going to have to put on my long johns and find my parka.
I did experience -25 temperatures once in Red River NM. The snow squeaks when you step on it and if you have to pee, it smokes like liquid nitrogen on its way to the ground.
My grandfather claimed that one winter it got so cold the kersosene lamp flame froze and the only way to blow out the light was to break off the flame and toss it outside in the snow. 
He also claimed the only way to see driving up a steep hill in a Model T at night was to strike a match to find the magneto powered headlamps. 
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I remember one morning on my 50 mile commute with my diesel. It was about 5:00 and no one else on the road and wondering if my dang diesel would gel up at -25.