An update on what is going on.
As I mentioned before, I think, after the high oil temp on the last run and the decision to go home and check the motor we took the car to my place and pulled the motor and Hooley took it home and checked the bearings. They looked fine so we might of been able to go on but....he did a leak down test on the motor and one cylinder was low, around 25%. He could hear air in the adjacent cylinder's intake or exhaust. He pulled the head and the head gasket was about ready to let go so good thing we stopped.
He installed new gaskets with a sealer and torqued them higher and also had time to run the motor to operating temp and let it set a couple days and retorqued again. Something he didn't have time for before. He feels good about it but the block might get O-Ringed over the winter.
I've cleaned the car but still find salt all of the time. Re-fiberglassed one part of the belly pan that got hurt going on or off the trailer. Also the same for the bottom of the nose of the frontend. Replaced 2 of the forward heims on the ladder bars.
Fixed some of the belly pan mounts that had either broke off or were damaged. Put in dzus fasteners on the very back belly pan that we had scabbed in just before going to the salt. Reinforced the frontend suspension stops and added a second brace to them.
Found some other rims and tires to use on the car when it is in storage and on the trailer. We also bought 2 almost new landspeed rear tires and rims. We are also going to mount up 2 tires I had so now will have 2 front and 2 rear spares.
I got 4 new springs for the wastegates that will let us start with basically zero boost at WOT. With the 8 lb. springs we were using it would go from no boost to 6-8 lbs. and the sudden 200-300 HP in a second or two was hard to control. Now with the ability to start at zero boost at WOT we should be able to bring the boost on in 2-4 lb increments with the 6 stage Turbosmart boost controller in 3rd and 4th and run on the motor in 1st and 2nd. Remember the car ran 218 on no boost and 50% throttle. I think on just motor in the first couple gears the car will actually accelerate faster since you won't have to be feathering the throttle so much. Then in some of 3rd and 4th we can hopefully bring the boost on in steps that don't keep breaking the tires loose.
I also found a new set of the 'right' overdrive gears for 4th (.865) that Hooley will put in when he gets to our place. I also found two different sets of higher drive gears for the transmission that drive the countershaft that would also give us a higher 4th with the present two high gear sets we have available now but would also make 1st and 2nd higher which could be good or bad. At least now we have a better selection of available gears and also gears I could use in the lakester if I buy the same transmission which is what I'm leaning towards.
Hooley is on his way now (Friday) to our place with his wife and sister-in-law. They are taking their time and should arrive here Sunday. We will spend a couple days sightseeing in the area and then Wanda and her sister will return home and we will put the motor back in the car and do a few other things and hopefully leave for Wendover Sunday the 30th.
The plan is to put Hooley in the car and run AA/BFCC. If he gets the record and there is still time we might change to AA/BGCC and I'll drive the car. This time there won't be any license runs for either of us so we might get a chance to see what the car will do and I'm very optimistic that it is going to be fast if we don't do anything stupid.
I think that is about it,
Sum