Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's Sunday morning on the salt. Here's the latest:
Speed Demon, with the 368" C motor, is on the transporter and about to head to the mountain end of the course for the first run of the day. They'll be running on the World Finals '02 record of Al Teague - Welch - Banks. 406.321 kilo, 405.862 mile. Thanks to Dave Petrali for that information just now.
Greg Watters went to SLC last night, as I reported, but not for a broken anything. Rather - they (team) picked up a lady that flew in and needed fetching to the salt, and he also had some work done on reshaping the intercooler water tank so the streamlined tail section will fit when installed. The team is still looking for ills on Kim's bike - none found as of this morning. Oh, yes -- on Greg's bike a minor electrical issue has shown up -- in that the ECU is finding a bunch of codes and putting the bike into "limp home" mode. He'll try a fix during the runs, he says. He thinks it's 'cause he'l hitting the rev limiter in each gear, and by the time he's to top gear the system decides "that's too many codes in quick succession" and switches to a safe mode. So -- after once coming to a stop, yesterday, and switching off the engine and restarting (thereby resetting the ECU) - since then he's decided that if he thinks it'll be necessary to reset during a run he'll lift and do a quick switch off-to-on of the kill switch. Maybe it'll work.
I'll post after telling you that SD is nearly to the mountain end of the course -- predicting a run in 15 minutes or so.
