The day couldn´t have been any better, awesome weather, awesome runs by many racers (one finnish guy ran 402km/h with his turbo-Hayabusa!) and the bike performed although it sang on its last verse.
First off I ran a 295km/h run with a crappy start, so we decided to try again to get part 300km/h without water injection. The injectors bottoms out at 2.4bar so I am a bit short on fuel but the second start is great and the front wheel feels like it is lifting from the track when I take off. Unfortunately the oil is heating up and the pump can´t keep the pressure over the 3kg that the safety pressure switch is set at so the fuel pump shuts down and aborts the run.
After some consideration I decide to lower the switch pressure to 2kg just to get another run out of the engine, it runs crazy hot and I knew it wouldn´t survive the weekend so I didn´t care that the thrust bearing might get toasted by this. At the last moment I also decided to run the water injection since I hoped it would lower the temps a tad.
I got off by yet another crappy start since the high flow of water spray made the engine flutter at low P2´s, so I let the brakes go and crammed the trottle as soon as I got off the starting line. The bike ran perfectly all through the run (although at just 2.4bar P2) but it was white glowing hot when I stopped. I am so satisfied with the race and with a toasted 140hp JU-01 engine I can gladly start the testing and modifying of the 270hp JU-02 engine and hope to have it running by next summer!
https://youtu.be/yD8YEGD6TW4Now I´ll finish off my glass of scotch and go to bed, been up since 04.00 this morning so I am a bit tired.
Cheers!
/Anders
