Russ Collins EFI Supply

[Dave Williams]

-> Russ Collins.  Does that name ring a bell?

 He was a big name in bike racing in the '60s and '70s.  Used to write a
column called "Ask the Assassin" in one of the ragazines.

 "Atcheson, Topeka, & Santa Fe" was the name of his bored, stroked,
triple engine Honda drag bike.  Hilborn injection running nitromethane,
with a little nitrous oxide plumbed in for grins.  Got into trouble on a
run, the bike went into a speed wobble, flipped, and over half a ton of
machinery got on top and rode him down the track a ways at over 150mph.

 Collins salvaged the engine pod, put a sheet of glass on the top, and
uses it as a coffee table.

 After the orthopedic surgeons got finished wiring him back together he
drew up plans for a new bike, a supercharged V8 made by siamesing two
Kawasaki fours together.  His shop built the bike while he was in the
hospital.  When it was finished they brought him to the strip in a
wheelchair, with casts modified so he could ride the bike.

 Just an ordinary biker dude, nobody special... <grin>


-> surfing the net and decided to look up RC.  Looks like he is still
-> kicking butt, but now his specialty is EFI.

 Collins retired from racing and got some kind of deal with Honda of
America doing car stuff.  I don't know if he even makes connecting rods
any more; that's how RC Engineering paid for his toys back in the old
days.  Now RC is peddling boutique EFI stuff, but I don't think he makes
any of it, it all looks like remarketer stuff.