Folks, the world's fastest sunbeam (wannabe) will not make the trip to
the salt in September. I had recent dental surgery, 8 implants installed
and my mouth is a wreck. I had planned for the operation to occur in mid
Agust which would have been fine but it slid out until Sept 4th. I had
major bone grafting to allow the implants to be installed and that took
longer to ossify and heal than expected. I am still eating mush or
similar.
And the car is missing some of it's instrumentation. The Innovate air
fuel sensor controller went belly up and it is off being repaired. And
the car is in great need of additional weight and some longitudinal
stability. As verified by the last run I made at Speed Week. Whooeeee!
With the water injection off and some new found spark advance I headed
down the salt at a truly blistering pace. I hit my rpm almost a mile or
more faster than ever before (ie my on pace rpm would generally be at
the 3 mile but I was there at 1.2 mils this time).. And then some slick
salt, lol. Rear end slid out when traction was lost. So I need to add
about 500 or 600 lbs to the car to account for teh added torque at teh
rear wheels, change its polar moment of inertia upward and add some aero
stability as well in the form of a spoiler. So lots of work to do
before I go back.
Very sorry to disappoint all of you who have ben very supportive. Just
not possible right now.
mayf, sadly
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