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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: LiarBoy Alan Baker
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:05:53 -0700
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On 2025-04-16 13:55, Tom Elam wrote:
> On 4/16/2025 1:45 PM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2025-04-16 08:36, Tom Elam wrote:
>>> On 4/1/2025 6:33 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>> On 2025-04-01 15:19, Tom Elam wrote:
>>>>> On 3/26/2025 3:51 PM, Alan wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-03-26 09:32, Tom Elam wrote:
>>>>>>> Since he bought another race car in 2018 liarboy Baker has 
>>>>>>> insisted the Honda engine that came with it was not an advantage 
>>>>>>> on the track. Here is what he stated at the time, see the 3rd 
>>>>>>> entry in the conversation:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/c/rWCHEEjs1as/ 
>>>>>>> m/ ecytpx1dBgAJ
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "I've known I wanted a Honda-engined
>>>>>>> Formula F since I started having to keep a Kent in tune. For a club
>>>>>>> racer, the convenience of an engine with electronic ignition (no
>>>>>>> ignition timing to adjust), electronic fuel injection (no carburetor
>>>>>>> jetting to change with changing conditions) and an alternator to 
>>>>>>> keep
>>>>>>> the battery charged (no need to charge the battery like the total 
>>>>>>> loss
>>>>>>> Kent-engined cars) is worth a lot. Not to mention that an engine 
>>>>>>> running
>>>>>>> with a restrictor and therefore operating at less than the 
>>>>>>> stresses it
>>>>>>> was designed for."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So he states that the Honda, with its restrictor plate and modern 
>>>>>>> fuel injected and engine control unit that tunes the engine all 
>>>>>>> by itself is not an advantage?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How many drivers have the resources or skills to tune a Ford Kent 
>>>>>>> engine's timing and carb jets for every race to bring out its 
>>>>>>> full power potential? Also, over the long term Alan admits that 
>>>>>>> the Kent is stressed by having to produce more power than it was 
>>>>>>> designed for. How does that affect power over a season of racing? 
>>>>>>> Can't be good.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anyway, despite the new car with what Alan admits is a better 
>>>>>>> engine that he says he wanted has over the last few years almost 
>>>>>>> entirely dropped out of Formula F racing at his home track. Last 
>>>>>>> year he showed up only for the 4th race, had a bit of an 
>>>>>>> accident, and never returned.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now we come to the 2015 season that starts next month. Will 
>>>>>>> liarboy show up or not? You too can find out at https:// 
>>>>>>> www.sccbc.net/ racers/ results/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll certainly be tuning in come April 26! Join me and watch the 
>>>>>>> mayhem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lying ass:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I never once said there weren't advantages to choosing a Honda 
>>>>>> over a Kent. In fact, I explained all of that to you when you 
>>>>>> didn't understand it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What YOU claimed was that the Honda was FASTER ON THE TRACK, and 
>>>>>> that part is what is bullshit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you need me to go through all the quotes...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ...again?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's faster on the track because the Kents are not always in top 
>>>>> tune while the Honda takes almost no maintenance. That is implied 
>>>>> by what you said. You bought it hoping to win more races. Admit 
>>>>> that please.
>>>>
>>>> Your claim was that it was faster like-for-like, Liarboy.
>>>>
>>>> As I said: do you want me to show you the quotes?
>>>
>>> No need to show the quotes. Admit it Alan, a Kent engine requires 
>>> significant investment in time and money to compete and win races. 
>>> You stated that Doug won so much because he had the resources to 
>>> employ an excellent shop to tune his car. And you were very close to 
>>> him in a lot of races without that expense, and even on marginal 
>>> tires at times. But how many of the other SCCBC FF crowd are able to 
>>> maintain their Kent engines at Doug's level? The Kent on-track speeds 
>>> are theoretically as good as a Honda, but only if the Kent is in top 
>>> form.
>>>
>>> There are reasons why there are so few Kents at the Runoffs. The Kent 
>>> is a better engine. Oh, I learned that from you!
>>>
>>> Speaking of SCCBC, I just looked at the recent meeting minutes. 
>>> Proposing a building new track 3 hours away? Raising entry fees 30% 
>>> was proposed just to breakven? Driver training entries so low that 
>>> you may want to add practice laps to the schedule? Concerns about 
>>> 2024 drop in race entries? Hmmm. Trouble in paradise?
>>>
>>
>> Wow.
>>
>> I've got myself a real live stalker!
> 
> OMG, what a deflection! Someone following a race course news is now a 
> stalker? Alan, you give egomania a new definition.

You mean someone with absolutely no interest in racing at all following 
the news for a small amateur racing club in a jurisdiction a thousand 
miles away in another country...

....right?