Well, we’ve had time to get home, clean our equipment, & catch up on some rest from the vacation we call Bonneville.
I’m really disappointed this year. Mainly because it’s been 2 years since we have been able to run yet we still stubbed our toe. If you remember we went to the chassis dyno in early July to make sure the corrections we made to the car were valid & we could start to improve on our past lack luster Speed Week performance.
Not gonna happen. We made 3 attempts to get down the course. The first two tries were turn outs, we couldn’t run fast enough to get out of our own way. The last run Kevin said the hell with it, and stayed in the throttle until the end of the first timed mile. That netted a lowly 191 mph. Disgusted is an understatement.
We feel the condition of the salt & access roads contributed to our issues. The car ran well during dyno testing but the bouncing & banging the car took on it 3 mile ride to the starting line seems to have effected our low budget wiring harness. We constantly had intermittent electrical issues that kept cropping up affecting our performance. Everything seemed fine in the pits but not so on the course.
These types of problems are not only frustrating, they can be almost impossible to track down. I think our only choice is a professionally constructed wiring harness. Big $$$ but so is going to the salt & not running worth a damn.
So there you have it, another years effort only to be no better off than last time.
I have already made contact with a competent racing wiring harness builder/supplier in the off road arena. We will take the car in for a complete custom harness then head back to the chassis dyno.
No one ever said Bonneville was easy... But we WILL be back!
A couple of glamour shots, Kevin talking to Rob Fryvogel in the staging lanes with his Carbonite streamliner in the background.
Also a left & right 3/4 view of the hot rod...
