Top Speed Shootout 2010

[Dean Los Angeles]

10 runs over 400. Almost 400 for Rocky. Arguably the best week ever for LSR. Historic. Epic! I can't wait for the movie. Hmm. Maybe Brad Pitt can play SSS.

Mike Cook was a genius for putting this on.

	Monday		Entry	Kilo	Mile	Exit	Notes
998	7:09	Nish					Shut off at two
998	8:23	Nish					Shut down - rough course
715	8:59	Speed Demon	403.488	413.537	413.256	422.546
715	9:39	Speed Demon	339.623	324.778	324.648	310.548	turbo destroyed
715	9:48	Speed Demon					Record - Kilo  363.847,  mile 363.673
998	10:02	Nish					Engine off, coasting through the two mile - MSD box too hot
715	3:35	Speed Demon	419.611	417.730	415.649	405.196
715	3:46	Speed Demon					No return run turbo gone again
451	4:21	Spectre					Full course run, no speed - lost a hose, alternator wire came off
998	4:29	Nish					154, exit 140 - lost a hose
998	5:40	Nish					Car wouldn't shift
	Tuesday
1122	6:34	Spirit of Rett	410.92	417.027	416.903	422.645
1122	7:09	Spirit of Rett	405.34	411.828	411.668	417.659
1122	7:15	Spirit of Rett					Record - Kilo  414.477,  mile 414.316
715	10:13	Speed Demon	208.990	199.481	199.409	190.450	NA motor, Drive line/u-joint failure
451	1:29	Spectre	384.038	390.474	390.308	396.223
998	1:43	Nish	399.443	404.472	404.376	409.110
998	3:25	Nish	395.239	400.276	400.113	404.562
899	8:05	Ack Attack	292.402	300.912	300.452	307.373
899	10:47	Ack Attack	287.909	295.660	294.574	297.878
968	1:01	Jamie Williams	193.958	196.392	195.881	196.152
968	1:18	Jamie Williams	192.963	194.971	195.963	202.489
968	4:12	Jamie Williams	194.848	199.731	199.186	201.873
968	4:34	Jamie Williams	195.593	197.212	198.302	204.857
968	5:02	Jamie Williams	184.596	184.944	184.431	182.607	nitrous not open
968	5:23	Jamie Williams	200.166	200.915	200.792	201.014
968	5:48	Jamie Williams	191.912	197.265	196.098	196.571
	Wednesday
998	7:52	Nish	401.333	407.184	407.057	412.515
998	8:39	Nish	387.782	393.472	393.227	398.003	sideways at the quarter mile
451	12:02	Spectre	357.262	363.064	362.939	368.376
715	2:05	Speed Demon					No speed - broke ring gear
968	10:02	Jamie Williams	211.092	211.996	211.564	210.626
968	11:33	Jamie Williams	202.177	200.460	200.773	200.407
1709	3:35	Scott Horner	219.440	215.097	215.336	212.143
1709	3:59	Scott Horner	206.044	206.493	206.447	206.702
	Thursday
899	9:12	Ack Attack	302.267	306.599	305.928	307.445
899	10:29	Ack Attack	297.077	307.117	306.598	314.946
1709	10:50	Scott Horner	207.543	207.499	207.568	207.819
451	11:58	Spectre	375.304	380.661	380.506	385.332
715	12:26	Speed Demon	208.077	198.596	198.509	189.518	Heavy Smoke
998	12:47	Nish	315.347	317.865	317.865	320.427
998	1:25	Nish	254.538	258.871	258.769	262.795
998	1:25	Nish					Record - kilo  285.359,   mile  285.306
1709	1:41	Scott Horner	232.362	223.998	225.169	222.106
451	3:08	Spectre	401.854	409.169	408.992	415.791
451	3:44	Spectre					Motor problems at 2 mile
998	4:07	Nish	304.918	308.046	308.056	311.294
1708	4:29	Scott Horner	228.215	223.604	224.191	222.190
998	5:06	Nish	248.139	237.594	237.493	227.419
1708	5:33	Scott Horner	209.796	216.682	215.931	219.86
757	5:53		239.259	242.881	245.823	242.736
Friday
899	7:33	Ack Attack	311.000	311.000	311.000	313.000	Backfiring
715	7:45	Speed Demon	168.000				Wouldn't shift
451	9:37	Spectre
1708	9:59	Scott Horner	197.000	194.500	193.300	192.000
757	10:48	Camaro	251.000	253.000	252.900	253.000
715	11:47	Speed Demon					Shut down before the three - blown intake
451	12:58	Spectre	401.500	408.000	408.200	414.400
1708	1:13	Scott Horner	223.000	220.000	219.000
451	1:49	Spectre	398.700	407.000	406.800	414.400
757	2:43	Camaro	210.400	206.000	205.000	197.000
968	2:43	Jamie Williams	218.000	226.000	224.000	225.000
104	2:52	Lawn Mower	80.900	82.600	82.500	84.000
104	2:59	Lawn Mower	79.400	80.400	78.000	73.000
1708	4:42	Scott Horner	232.700	228.700	227.400	218.400
		SSS	23.891	77.498	23.473	124.860
	Saturday
1708	7:23	Scott Horner	240.000	229.000	226.000	27.000
899	8:46	Ack Attack	326.000	327.000		324.000
1708	9:09	Scott Horner	207.000	214.000	213.000	211.000
899	9:31	Ack Attack	255.000		239.000		shifting problem
104	10:53	Lawn Mower	90.300
899	1:47	Ack Attack	360.300	366.600	366.700	373.800
899	2:42	Ack Attack	361.000	366.000	365.000	369.000
104	3:48	Lawn Mower	94.000	96.600	96.100	96.700
899	4:14	Ack Attack	379.300	387.100	386.900	394.000
							Record Mile 376.156 Kilo 376.363!!!

[Glen]

Dean, cool recap, thanks for putting it together. I have it on my desk top
 

[Mr411Fan]

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What ticks me off is no media coverage from Salt Lake on any of this. What a shame. Wendover is just a bus stop to them. There is so much history in Wendover.

That's why the internet is so great and the news papers and the postal systems are going broke.

I am blurry eyed from looking at this screen but wouldn't have missed it for anything.



One there here to ponder is all these 400mph runs and a very safe meet, I think the media mostly perks up if they hear about an accident or injury unfortunatly. I agree Glen.

[Mr411Fan]

What ticks me off is no media coverage from Salt Lake on any of this. What a shame. Wendover is just a bus stop to them. There is so much history in Wendover.

That's why the internet is so great and the news papers and the postal systems are going broke.

I am blurry eyed from looking at this screen but wouldn't have missed it for anything.

One there here to ponder is all these 400mph runs and a very safe meet, I think the media mostly perks up if they hear about an accident or injury unfortunatly. I agree Glen.

[Mr411Fan]

sorry about that double post, I'm just learning how to use all these message board tools.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Nancy and I are at SLCInt'l airport, leaving in less than a half-hour for Ord.  There we'll hang out for 2 hours or more in late afternoon (their time) and board for the 75-minute flight to Marquette Universal Aerodrome.  It's a big airport -- we've got TWO gates.  That's huge, hey?

So -- Jim the Texican is calling and emailing and working to get media coverage set up, and I'll be writing up a release or two to submit to said media.  I'll try to get it done while riding on the plane (we've got exit row seats so I'll have a bit extra room to type) and I'll email it to Jim during our hiatus at O'Hare.

We'll do what we can from this end.  Unh, maybe I should ask all of youse guys to contact your local media and ask them to scrounge some coverage.  We can hope to get it on the newswires, or they can email or call me so I can give them the story.  My email, I remind you, is jonwennerberg (at) nancyandjon.org.**  My telephone is 906 361 6282.  Spammers -- don't pay any attention to the previous line, hey?

**I'll suggest that you have them read back the email address if they take it from you -- it's very common for folks to miss the ".org" and substitute a ".com".  That won't work.  They'll also add an "h" in Jon.  Nope -- don' do that, Desi.

Let's give 'em a big story and make them regret that they weren't there.  No, maybe I shouldn't say that -- if they were there I would have had to shove through too many camera crews to do any good.

Finally (for now, at least) -- thanks to Mike Cook and all of the Land Speed Enterprises team.  I'll be making up souvenir coffee mugs for them - and for the individual teams.  I'll probably also do up a run opf cups for you folks.  They'll be $10/each plus shipping from Marquette, Michigan.  When you order -- specify red, black, green, or blue.

Ta-ta for now -- gotta go sit on the wing of the plane for three hours.  At least it'll give my hair a great "doo".

[efenn611]

 
  I would like to thank EVERYONE who worked so very very very hard to put on this meet, The Cooks, all their Crew,  SSS and Nancy, Ray, Jon, And EVERYONE I missed,  Also not to forget ALL the racers and especially their very hardworking crews. I never that a 'puter could be so very addicting. All the posts in the beginning about not being able to work,I now know what they all meant, I haven't been able to stay in the shop long enuf to accomplish much at all.

    THANKS TO ALL       ED


 p.s. I WILL push the donate button when I finish this car.

[Dean Los Angeles]

Jon, I hope you get to close your eyes for a few minutes.

With a week that had speeds like that my eyes would be bulging out of their sockets!

Did you get the run logs from Friday and Saturday? I would like to put the complete speeds in the recap.

[Freud]

It certainly required some "at the track" changes for Ack Attack to accomplish their record.

That's nothing new for Mike.

He was a tuner for a top level flat track motorcycle racer in the prime era of Flat Track Motorcycle racing.

Tuning for the changing conditions of a clay track were instantaneous decisions between the heat races and the Main.

He was a winner then and at least during the Shoot Out, he had more time to make the needed decisions.

It's almost like an unfair advantage.

It also helped to have a rider who has had clay on his teeth.

This week Mike got his PhD. in motorcycle speed after winning the Main Event for 2010.

Mike, which was more rewarding? Jim's win at the first San Jose Mile or the FIM record?

No broken shoulders this time.


FREUD

[Glen]

Jon, I hope you get to close your eyes for a few minutes.

With a week that had speeds like that my eyes would be bulging out of their sockets!

Did you get the run logs from Friday and Saturday? I would like to put the complete speeds in the recap.

Dean, just talked to James Rice and the mower ran the 96 mph yesterday,best run. They are all done and packed up. So no updates to add.
 

[WhereTheHellisMurph]

Haayy Slim `n Nancy,have a safe flight home and it was great hangin out witchas all.
What a rollercoaster week.I`m thinkin Rocky planned this whole "Leave it `till the Last minute" to get the record,friggin drama queen !!!!!.
Enyhoo,see yaz all in a few dayz for World Finals.........


Murph

[jl222]

  394 MPH WOW

  Rocky was 18 mph faster entering the mile than previous run,  so was it riding our tuning our combination?
  

                     JL222

  On further examination a 15 mph increase from entry to exit points to tuning still a hell of a ride.

[JoshH]

  Rocky was 18 mph faster entering the mile than previous run,  so was it riding our tuning our combination?
  

I seriously doubt tuning had anything to do with the increase. Earlier in the thread someone mentioned that they had it geared for 385 in fourth; so I'm guessing on the third pass they chucked the RPM limit out the door, just wrung the engines out. Just a guess, this is something true racers would do

[maj]

Welcome to the greatest show on earth 

Thanks Jon , Nancy, Ray and everyone else that kept us glued to our computers

Thanks and Congrats to Mike Cooks and everyone that assisted in making the meet happen .

Huge congratulations to the teams 
I felt a huge sense of achievment just reading through the problems encountered and the final successes for most participants ,
can only imagine what it felt like from that end.

[jl222]

  Rocky was 18 mph faster entering the mile than previous run,  so was it riding our tuning our combination?
  

I seriously doubt tuning had anything to do with the increase. Earlier in the thread someone mentioned that they had it geared for 385 in fourth; so I'm guessing on the third pass they chucked the RPM limit out the door, just wrung the engines out. Just a guess, this is something true racers would do

  All tuning is not just engine
 And I seriously doubt they were hitting the rev limit on previous runs or they would have had an even larger increase from entry to exit with same tune up. There not going to limit their speed to 367.

           JL222