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East Coast Timing Association => ECTA General Chat => Topic started by: Cajun Kid on August 19, 2011, 06:43:50 PM
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OK ECTA folks,,, use this thread to tell us your results and stories from SpeedWeek,, also post any pics and videos you care to share as well..
Charles
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OK,,, I will start..
Congratulations to Dave KixMiller for making the 2 club in his pickup. Not sure of top speed but he set record 216 or 217 mph.
Bill Reilly in his Orange #2100 Camaro had problems getting to the slat (tractor problems) twisted and broke a drive shaft, tore floor out and cracked a transmission at 191mph,, got it fixed and ran a 200.739 his best ever run and ON THE SALT...what a great story....
Keith Turk and crew had some internal engine problems in the Camaro and turned the 572 BBC into a 143 BBC "F" motor and not sure how fast they went,, but they sure get the award for determination.
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Turk went 32mph and got the record. :cheers:
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Noticed Rod Nestman got a record with his pickup.
Bracie found another slot.
Pete Keyser overcame the teething problems from Loring and starting difficulties at the Salt to get his new car up to speed. Heard a rumor he is headed home happy with the results and has good ideas on what to do to for increased numbers next time.
Ed
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Good news for Rod and his pickup,,,
What Record did Ed get ? I saw he made impond early on in the week.
See everyone in Sept .
Charles
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Charles,
I had the pleasure of parking next to the Turkburgher in impound after our roadster 1986 qualified for the E/gr record at 204.771. Then, there was the backup run in the morning. When I went to press the shift button on the steering wheel nothing happened. I quickly reached behind me for the air activated button and continued driving with one hand on the wheel and one hand on the button requiring a bit of a twist in my body. Sadly this lost a bit of speen and I only went 200 mph when I need 202. We are still elated at how we did. I think the ECTA looked good.
Robin Dripps
Dripps-Gibby Racing
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Charlie --- the Fairway Motorsports Team --- Joe, Tom, Cliff and Joe Daly will be on the salt flats for Bub's. I will be happy to add to this post as soon we get there.
Joe
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I'm waiting for James Hight to get home and report on his first trip to the salt :cheers:
Congrats to all.
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Update:
From what I hear the Kixmiller truck put 3 drivers in the 200 club... before a left rear blowout and spin put them on the trailer.. safely I hear,,,, good job for all.
Charles
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Cajun, when will it be possible for a report from the Salt regarding your exploits?
FREUD
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Cajun, when will it be possible for a report from the Salt regarding your exploits?
FREUD
Freud, my hopes was this year for WOS..but the E motor got hurt and is not ready. Not being one to show up unprepared to do well,,, I am postponing this year for several reasons.....
I am limiting my 2012 paved events and leisure travel so to FOCUS on Bonneville for 2012 (focus as well as save money and vacation days) This will allow me time to gather the needed help and resources for 2012 and give me the time for Wind Tunnel and Dyno testing.
I will finish out the 2011 season with ECTA and LTA,, hoping for a 2 club in one or both venues. (with my bigger C motor)
Charles
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We pitted with Kix/Chris/Kris and Bill Reilly and had a great time running the 'Predators' cup car. The plan was for three of us to run it and make a bunch of laps over 200. That didn't quite happen. Wayne and Steve ran 197 and 207 and I ran 190 on our first passes. Wayne was running about 209 (GPS) on his second pass when the car spun a main bearing. He still got a 200.7 on his 5 mile speed so he was happy with that but no more passes for me. :cry:
Freud, sorry we didn't get together at the mud talks. I did end up spending a bunch of time with Russ Eyres and he was extremely helpful in passing along salt history and current conditions.
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Dean --- Looks like Jim entered as Paul Powell Racing in MBG 650 ... it is his ECTA # 9652 ... shows a record.
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revo...... I sure hope for next time.
The best to you.
FREUD
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The Kix-Henderson crew had an unbelievable week with the truck... we unloaded strong from the trailer and got faster every run!!!
I ran the truck down the long course early on Sunday and upped the six year standing record by 6mph with a 216 pass. The windy backup run was only 211, so the new record was set at 213 and change, and I joined the 2 club!
Kris Henderson abandoned his normal driving position in the Jag and jammed himself into the truck to bust off a 217, backing it up the next morning for a new record, and membership to the 2 club!
We kept making adjustments in ride height, rake, and some carb tuning and got Chris Coffey up to a 218 for the now standing record. Chris also joined the 2 club with that record!
We pulled out all the stops on Thursday morning and I ran course one out the back door at 222mph... it was a pretty crazy ride downcourse and I almost pulled the chute three times before the end of mile 5, but we were in impound once again! Unfortunately, Friday morning was grey and extremely windy, the run was going well up to about 175mph when a wind gust blew me off the course and around.... so no backup on the 222. The left rear tire blew on the spin, but the truck was solid and stable on the ground through the whole event.... looks like the only damage was the wheel/tire/moon disc.
Bill Reilly had more than his fair share of problems this week, but never gave up and was able to get the car back together for a last day pass at over 200mph! Way to go Bill!!!
Overall, we fulfilled an impossible dream and I got to drive the truck to 222 mph on the Big Boy course at Bonneville and have a time slip to prove it....... thrilling... absolutely thrilling! Thanks to everyone that helped us along the way... especially the Turks and the Timneys for letting us wear out their cell phones and their ears getting this thing together!!!
Kix
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I'm waiting for James Hight to get home and report on his first trip to the salt :cheers:
Congrats to all.
My first trip to the salt was an amazing experience. I had been to Bonneville before as part of a pit crew, but nothing beats riding out there. I have so much I could say, but will try to summarize my runs and experience as concisely as possible.
I started the week running my little Suzuki 600 turbo naked in the M-BG class. After doing my rookie run, I set the record for this class at 164mph. (This record was bumped the next day by a bike on the long course)Since we set it on the 2 mile rookie course, we knew the bike had more speed in it and moved over to the 3rd course. During this pass, the fuel pressure regulator stuck shut and the bike ended up pushing the head gasket. I spent all day Monday installing my spare engine with the help of some from the crew of the Hinton performance team. With the new motor, we decided to go ahead and put the fairing on just to see how fast the 600 would go. After going back through inspection on Tuesday and getting a new bike number, the bike struggled to get traction and after making passes on both course 1 and 3, we parked the bike and waited for the courses to be moved that evening. Getting there first thing Wednesday we were able to be the first vehicle down the long course after the record runs. The new salt was better and the bike was able to get enough grip to manage an average speed of just over 200mph over the 5th mile. While I have been faster on pavement, holding that kind of speed over 5 miles while the bike is constantly spinning and wagging was crazy! I don’t think I took one breath once I left the line. Thursday morning we were one of the first ones out of impound to make sure we would be one of the first record attempts of the day. More experienced riders and drivers said the salt is always a little better in the morning so we wanted to be sure to take advantage of this. After making my run, I knew the speed would be close and felt like puking while waiting for Paul to come pick me up. When he finally got there, he looks at me and said, ”close man…real close…it must have been spinning.” Little did I know that he had already gotten the time slip and knew that I had just done a little under 202mph on the 5th mile to back up my prior run and get into the 200mph club. After some strong words and a lot of celebration, we loaded the bike up and headed to tech for the last obstacle before the real celebration could begin.
All and all, a great week! We made it back to NC early Saturday morning and have been recovering most of the day today. We are already making plans to improve the bike’s speed and handling.
Like all racers, I didn’t do this on my own and a lot of people helped out to be sure I was able have the opportunity to do what I did, so thanks and credit is due to them also.
• Thanks to all of the guys at Hinton Performance for allowing me to car pool with them, share drivers (since I was traveling solo), and loaning me a pit crew member that could help get me to and from the race track.
• Thanks to Joe and Donny Timney for keeping an eye on me and helping me get through tech for the first time at an SCTA event.
• Thanks to Paul Powell Performance for putting in the long hours getting all the engines ready, the fabricating work for the ballast, and providing 24-7 access to their chassis dyno.
• And thanks to all of my fellow ECTA members for the encouragement, advice, and congratulations that you have given me.
James
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Jim --- well done ... I knew you come home with a record ... you pushed it over 200 also
Joe
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Well done James, congrats :cheers:
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Rookie to 200 club in a week. James you make it look too easy. I've seen how hard you and Paul work on your equipment at Maxton. I've watched the many times that you took it home in pieces. Your persistence has paid off as you have been doing amazing things this year. Bonneville 200 just tops it off. It couldn't happen to a more deserving, hard working guy. To me you really represent what a Land Speed is. See you in September.
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Karmann Ghia...G/PRO
The new clutch and pressure plate didn't like our throughout bearing, so as I went to second on the first pass it exploded. We pulled the motor and changed the disc, throughout bearing, cross shaft, and cleaned the grease and clutch dust off of the new pressure plate and put it all back together. Didn't have the clutch adjusted correctly and missed our chances on making a full run on Saturday. Went up early Sunday morning and made our second attempt at a full pass and went 143.3?? at the 3. Checked the air fuel recorder and saw that it went really lean in the high rpm range so we changed the air bleed jets and went back out for the next run. Car was pulling hard and sounded great. It was pulling hard in 4th just past the 2-1/4 around 6500rpm when it fell over on its face. Shut it off and costed to the return road with the smell of burnt oil following me. Best mph to date though so all was not lost. 144.75? at the 2-1/4. Ended up with a broke valve which bent the push rod and broke the push rod tube. Stuck valve in the head so we called it quites and just watched the rest of the week cause if one SS valve breaks then the others probably wouldn't have been far behind shifting at 8300rpm.
Zach
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Charles and Kix, thanks. We went there to learn, have fun and we did both. Lesson # 1 if you bring spare parts you will not need them but the one or two parts you leave at the shop you will need. #2 nothing prepares you for the sensation of driving on the salt...its just different. #3 If you have a Tig welder you make a lot of friends over speed week #4 Bonneville was more fun than I could have imagined.
kix it was great pitting with you and your guys, what a great accomplishment.
Bill
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EJ Kowalski from Reading, PA added some rear fenders to his Model A powered belly tank and set records in both the gas and fuel Streamliner classes. Things didn't go as well with his record holding flathead powered modified roadster as a sleeve came loose and split the block.
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@James Hight - Couldn't be more proud of you buddy! Great stuff. Sorry I didn't get a chance to speak to you after your run but sincere congrats on the 2 Club and Welcome Aboard!
Jack Broomall
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Nice job James :cheers:
Bill
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Way to go James :cheers:
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jlh454.........Sorry for you. It will likely never be that easy again.
The Salt remembers people.
Good Job.
FREUD
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Way to go James. It doesn't get any better than that for a rookie. Congratulations. :cheers:
Fred
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Ed Brace set D/GRMR record at 155 and change.
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Ed Set D/BFRMR record at 155 MPH.Set gas record last year. sorry for miss information.
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I crew on Rods truck 9602 D/P/MP hes not much of an internet forum guy so I will fill you all in, and he will let me or yous guys know what I got wrong!
We had a good week but rough, we decided the faster you go the harder it is, I know, no big surprise. Last year we blew a head gasket, had the heads redone last winter.
Here is what we did at speedweek. This is the story of the little truck with the little V6.
We went in of course with high hopes, who doesn't.
Saturday our first run was a 171.253 still pulling at 3 miles, went back to the pits and upped the jets it was running lean went up 2 jet sizes and checked everything out.
Sunday morning went out ran a 167.870, that’s not good we are slower. Went back to the pits still lean. Loren fixed that went up 3 jets sizes check everything out again went back out and ran a 159.974 Subaru even slower, but expected, trying to figure out jet size but did not expect to lose that many MPH.
Went back to the pits and changed the jets, checked everything out again, found that One of the rocker arms were lose!!! Reset all of the Valves.
Monday morning Ran a 174.? On a 173.5 record all right we are in impound.
Went to impound still running just a little lean but found another rocker arm loose!!
Tuesday get to see the sun rise on the salt. Ran a 175.? Up the record to 174.949.
Which means we can know go to the long course!
Go through tech get the motor pumped and sealed, all right new record!
Go back to the pits put it all back together, another rocker arm lose!!!
Up the jets one size, set valve and we are off to the long course!!
Ran 172.1 on course 2 fell down after 3 miles, Yep a rocker arm loose again.
Back to the pits reset all of the valves, check everything over again. Get ready to do it again in the morning.
Weds Course 2 run a 176.170 fell down after the 3 miles again, BUT we are back in impound, Dodge I have to get up at 4:30 but that is just fine. In impound check the plug they look good, jetting seems perfect, reset the valves yep one lose, not all which the same one?!
Reset the valves put in new plugs, go to check the timing it would not idle and running rough, listen and something is making noise in the valve train, We are done for this year, pull it out of impound and call it a hellofayear!
The good news is that little V6 still has a little something left in it after a rebuild!
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Doc ... I am sure it wasnt easy for Jim ... he just makes it look easy .... He has a bunch of years running at Maxton with smaller engine power adder bikes. He is the go to guy for fuel injection set ups ... One of the people not afraid to share his substantial knowledge ... I have no doubt that you're correct about the early success on the salf flats getting him addicted like the rest of us
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From my worker post in Impound I get to see the ECTA racers roll in - frequently. I'm pretty busy and I'm terrible at remembering numbers so I can't pull up who ran what but it's still a blast.
Had dinner with Ed Brace and his pit crew - Bill Rustang. Great to see them both and they were doing well and going fast.
Great Week!
Dan
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The guys at lsxtv.com heard about our little truck running an LSX and posted a nice article...
http://www.lsxtv.com/features/interviews/lsx-powered-gmc-sonoma-runs-222-mph-at-bonneville/
Kix
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From my worker post in Impound I get to see the ECTA racers roll in - frequently. I'm pretty busy and I'm terrible at remembering numbers so I can't pull up who ran what but it's still a blast.
Had dinner with Ed Brace and his pit crew - Bill Rustang. Great to see them both and they were doing well and going fast.
Great Week!
Dan
Hey Dan, thanks so much for volunteering your time! I can't tell you how much we appreciate all the volunteers who keep us safe and having fun!
Kix
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Kix, I second that thank you to the volunteers. They make it all possible. Here is a video from the bumper of the 2100. Let's see, 204 with a 3:50 gear, motor was still pulling and that gives me a reason to go back next year with a 3:25! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnrvAylCNeU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Bill
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Bill thanks for the ride,,, way cool,,,
Is that a new chute ? looked great..
See you in October,,,
Charles
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Charles, thanks, the car seem to handle good. I only had a couple of degrees in rear spoiler and Keith Turk told me I need to run 14 degrees. Not sure what that would do. Unlike the mile and 1.5 mile when you get close to speed at the 2 mile for the next two miles it starts to sashshay a little bit. My car did not drift from one side of the lane to the other like some people described their car was doing. The in car shows no steering input at all less the little wiggle when the chute sets under power. I left Tampa at 4,380 lbs, 52 - 48 left to right and 52 - 48 front to back. Had all kinds of weight to move around but we never go to try anything. The car peaked at 204, (GPS) with a 3.50 gear at 8,300 in 4th 1:1. I was at about 8,000 entering mile 3 and pretty much held the throttle at 8,200 to 8,300 through 3 and 4. We also never got a chance to change a rear gear. The handling is totally different on the fast when when the car stops accelerating. I have read about this in the Roadster threads. Same sensation they describe when the car runs out of HP. I was the most fun I have ever had in a car. Well there was that Monte Carlo back seat in high school so let's say most fun "DRIVING" a car!
I cannot wait to go next year...with the exception of cleaning everything up afterwards.
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See if you can get something in between. We were jazzed going 206 with a 3.10, went back to the cooler air of WF with a 3.00 and couldn't crack 200 until we dangerously leaned it out. I guess 3% looks different at 200.
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Got a lot of stories from Speed week, everything from my pit trailer tossing the bike on it's side before we even made rookies runs to the sensation of running against the pin with the set up and really having time to think about and feel what was going on. Wheel spin at 125, what a cross wind feels like on the salt, lots of time in impound, tearing off a cylinder head to confirm displacement, the clean up. What we've learned..... I just hope somebody will take the time to listen in October.