We were very fortunate that Ben Jordan, Lynn Yakel and Roberta Nichols were good friends. Lynn and Roberta were long time Bonnevillers and Aero Engineers. Lynn was involved with multiple streamliner designs, and in the mid 70's Ben asked him to design a body to go 200 in the K class. While we were not successful in that endeavor, after the liner debuted at the salt in 76, a lot of small flat sided liners started showing up and going very fast. One of the first was Don DeBring, a Lockheed engineer that apologized for stealing the basic idea and went very fast with a junkyard Fiat motor. It was OK, because we stole his rear motor design when we turned the Bockscar into a lakester. Lynn gave us the axle positions for the car and their track widths. While our configuration may not work with a tank or with large motor classes it has worked for us and as of this writing it holds 9 200 MPH+ records in G, H, I and J classes. (I always clarify time, because every record is temporarily held)
Rex, I wish I could take credit for our motors, but a lot of our motors were group efforts with my partners Marty and Kevin Sutton. Our first Kawasaki was originally a Bob Wirth motor, till we pushed it a little too hard.
We ran Honda, then Kawasaki, and since 2002 Suzuki motors... We've run most of them to their failure point... Our current G motor is the first 1630 Steve Knecum built.... I got it with an old Larry Forstall race bike... we hope to run it at WoS next year when John Goodman has his G/F lakester ready to race with us.
We are HP loyal not brand loyal.
my little ramble through history is over, go look at successful cars, then build it any way you decide, race it, be safe, have fun and go fast