I'm happy to go along with this, but it wasn't me who painted the wiring in the first place.....but keep it coming I have an insatiable appetite for s***-canning. When on the salt I kind of like to get around in the Nomex, it's cool and keeps the sun off. After my first run I managed to wipe my hand on my butt when it had some copper anti-sieze on it, leaving a brown stripe up my crack, I managed to wear that around for a few hours, classy.I'm sure there are photo's.
We haven't even started really, what about our sponsor Pope irrigation products? Jon gave a salient lesson on pressure differentials when it was pointed out that the piece of garden hose I had used on the crankcase evac was probably collapsing....."not if there is any pressure in the crankcase" he said......now, I need to tell you that I had put a piece of that hose there when we went to the dyno and the Colonel wasn't all that impressed......I assumed a few weeks back that if I put a piece of it on the motor again that the Colonel would quickly materialize with a piece of half inch vac hose. I was wrong.
That was small beer.
We made other wholesale changes to the car, for all the anxiety i had been through regarding some of the changes they didn't just not raise any eyebrows, there was nary a "meh"........... we had the 5kgs of AFFF in the cab, I looked through the window of production sedans that will never reach the 200 requirement for extra extinguishant and saw their little bottles and their twenty times( maybe thirty) greater cabin spaces, their front engines and their tendency to spin and wondered about the rules........
I rang the guy who we paid to set the rear end up and told him we'd run 205mph, he didn't believe me initially, then I told him we'd swapped in the 2.41 and run 215 in the same distance with two clocks to go, I didn't want him thinking he'd taken money off dreamers, and I thanked him for everything he'd done. I should point out that Andre who helped us/took charge of the diff swap made use of the Silverton boys BBQ to heat a bearing in the midst of the job, a true champ. That BBQ also fed us a few nights , that helped too.
Jon Bennet was a great help in that "get stuff done" way......I didn't blab but Jon had made us a set of foils for the front axle and tie rods and another set for the rear axles, I just ran out of time to fit them and didn't want to wreck them in a rush. Dave, Jon's son ( who, btw ran 202 on the GPS course on his 1000APS bike first year out) helped too....
Nigel, Brett's fellow traveller weighed in and has offered us a bunch of electromotive stuff....from what I have read there is something in the VE table in the Delco computer that is hard to avoid and kicks in at about 64-6600rpm. with what Nigel has offered we just need to buy the brain. Damon from Broken Hill was invaluable , smart and good on the tools , he's been a fan of the car...he just wanted a photo of him in it, hell we gave him a t-shirt too....it's embarrassing the number of people who just threw their all in for the little car.
Well sounds like its unanimous, we are going to Bonneville!
It seems that no-one put forward any arguments forward other than getting the engine revving (suspension was determined as track issues?) and that can be resolved by a new ecu and Dino session?
Huh, huh, can we huh?
RH+
Minister of Agitprop
Being the guy who has been doing the bulk of the work I'm telling you it ain't going to happen this year unless a big cheque with my name on it arrives in the mail with no return address.I've spent more in the last three years than many Bonneville entrants have spent on their vehicle and I'm not punting more on a vanity project, the risks are too great.Cancellation? I've been there and seen teams with a little more coin and logistical expertise take one in the tradesman's entrance and fall short of even modest expectations..........
Years ago when Jack Dolan explained the type of motor we should build and then explained it was because it would do what we needed and wouldn't hurt itself he backed it up by saying "because if you build a high-revving hi-comp motor and break it, you'll never be able to afford to build another one". We have him to thank for positioning this whole deal where it is now......
I'm calling a 250mph pass in 12 months with the ideas Goggles and Grumm shared at the lake.
That motor is strong, the aero is good.
jon
When that motor will run to 7200-7500rpm and still have all the oil on the inside I might think a little differently but there is never going to be suspension on that car and I am the only person who can make an informed decision about that.....do you want me to lift it up off the ground too? I have some ideas about damping the front axle but people who are telling us we need suspension are farting above their arses.
I unloaded the car yesterday and thought about the beaut 36 degree day I had loading it, when the cross bar of the hoist hit me on the head, twice. I put the front axle on the stands after hosing it and then put a litre of WD40 in my Wurth sprayer and dumped it into the car.....I hadn't done it the day before as I was a little tired and had knocked my gate off with the trailer...that put me in the wrong frame of mind...that's the sort of frame of mind I'm in now....first day of work, absolutely exhausted and broke.
But I've got time to sleep and I get paid next week