<VV> A Rampside Trip

[Ron]

Don't forget that the temperature indication doesn't mean much in an 
absolute sense.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read_HML" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "VirtualVairs AA" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Cc: "Corvanatics AB" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:11 AM
Subject: <VV> A Rampside Trip


> Yes, I know, I still owe you VV folks the final installments on the Route 
> 66 trip.  With any luck, I'll get to that later this week.
>
> This story is fairly short - about the utility of a Rampside.
>
> Saturday it was all cleaned up and participated in the first LSD (Lake 
> Shore Drive) Kruze in Chicago.  It was a good turnout - estimated 600 or 
> more cars on display at Soldier Field parking lot.  Probably over 1,000 
> that cruised the drive.  Six cars from CCE were in the cruise portion and 
> four (parked together) stayed for the show portion.  There was another 
> seven Corvairs scattered thru ought the shown - all cars that no one from 
> CCE had previously seen.  Obviously, we did our best to talk those folks 
> into coming to our meetings.  We'll see what happens on that.
>
> It rained like H on the way home.  Several traffic lights are still out on 
> some of the main routes near my home and many businesses were without 
> power for 8 hours or more.  We sent that stuff over to Indiana, right 
> Warren?
>
> Anyway, Sunday morn was an "up early" day and a quick trip over to 
> Elmhurst, IL where I (and helpers) loaded a piano - probably around 550 
> pounds into the Rampside.  Staying on local roads and not traveling over 
> 50 mph, I arrived at my daughter's place in New Berlin, WI.  Technically 
> this was not quite legal since I have AV plates (not truck plates) on the 
> vehicle.  I DID plan the route through Wheeling, IL where a relative 
> happens to be a police officer.  Hey, it couldn't hurt to mention his name 
> if I should happen to get stopped for having a load on the truck.  Other 
> than one wrong turn and a stop to air up the tires (steering was much 
> improved by that), the trip went smoothly.  Perhaps these things were 
> built for piano moving?
>
> After the unload and a quick bite to eat, the trip back was down the 
> express and toll ways.  I found that there was a fairly stiff wind.  Flags 
> were standing straight out on about a 45 degree angle to my direction of 
> travel - so I figure that (subtracting the cross wind factor) I was 
> probably driving into a 20 to 25 mph head wind.  The ambient temp was in 
> the upper 80s and fairly humid.  There is an air dam on the front so the 
> cross wind factor did not affect me very much at all.
>
> The Rampside has a Spider dash and I found that the head temp was right at 
> 400 so long as I kept the speed below 60 mph.  I had done an oil change 
> the night before (Mobil 1), so I was not all that concerned even though it 
> typically runs at about 375 head temp on cooler days and higher (like 65 - 
> 70) speeds.  I got a spike or two into the 425 range when I tried going 
> over 60 or up long gradual hills or bridges, so I just kept it over in the 
> right lane and stayed between 55 and 58 mph.  In a total of 220 miles, it 
> has fallen just below the full mark on the dipstick.  So it used a 
> "measurable" amount of oil during the trip, but not terribly much.  If it 
> continues to spike temps above 400, I'll probably remove the lower 
> shrouds.
>
> So, anyone else move a piano in a (nearly) 45 year old Rampside recently?
>
> Attachments (if any) are scanned with anti-virus software.
>
> Later, JR
> '61 Rampside Standard 4/110
> '65 Monza Convertible 4/140  (temporarily X 2)
> '66 beater Coupe - icemobile 4/140 (1/2 ownership)
>
>
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