Boy O Boy, is this getting exciting?! I sure things would have worked out at the Bub Meet, as I fully intended to be part of this group that are going all out. Unfortunately during our last run the blower drive shaft broke at 5500 rpm on Lambkys Liner/Black Lightning. Earlier in the week of the Bub Meet our blower belt broke at 5500 rpm. The blower shop in California that did all the anodysing and rebuild of the blower to update it from a street to a competition unit estimated that it would take 100 hp to run the Roots at 6500 engine rpm. The blower is overdriven 1.6 to 1. The blower belt used has a hp rating of 60. As blower belts usually have a 50% fudge factor as to what they can actually transmit, I felt safe. Evidently this isn't the case. By the fact that the blower drive is giving up at 5500, I figured that the blower is taking more like 150 hp to run. The entire drive has to be redesigned, new pulleys manufactured, a wider drive belt, and a larger blower pulley shaft made. This couldn't be manufactured or done right in the short length of time between the Bub Meet and the Shootout, so this, my LSR friends, is why the Vincent streamliner isn't there.
Wish it weren't so.
Max