This thread has sort of diverged two ways...
1) I still like the idea of a low cost project to keep me in the game in the years I can't raise all the dough for shipping plus the crews airfares etc.... so appreciate thoughts on if (in theory) that old lakester with the Buick I8 can be economically run to the XO/GL or XO/BGL record??? Or are people going to turn around in a couple of years and say "Crikey, he was never going to get close with that old Buick lump in the car"?
2) The idea of widening the track on the Flower also appeals for stability reasons, it is something we've actively considered as she's pretty frisky above 250mph... LOT's of movement... wouldn't need to move the wheels out very far to be outside the line of the bodywork, then make up a fresh set that effecitvely covers them again if we want to go back to being a liner.
As Stainless says, breaking records (I imagine) is a whole lot of fun... and it might be nice to have a crack at that I/BFL mark.
Cheers