Astonishing performance Rick. CONGRATULATIONS !!!
Especially with a hurt drive train!!! Of course having a car designed so
that it doesn't require
1,000 HP to go 300 mph is a prerequisite.
Let us know what you come up with to address the drive train issues. I
don't see any
simple solutions there, but you've been very creative so far.
Bryan
PS: Mark l. told me before his first run that he had 800 hp. He also
said he didn't have
a snow balls chance in hell of breaking your I/BFS record. Hmmm...
Rick Yacoucci wrote:
>We had a fantastic time at speed week, didn't have much time to visit but I
>did a little
>We ran H/BFS on a 269 record in liner 988
>On our first run we ran 293 in the quarter and then the engine sneezed and
>blew off the tube to the intercooler.
>On our second run we ran 299 in the quarter, 314 in the first mile, then
>lost high gear in the middle mile at 328.
>We went to impound and assessed the damage, pulled the oil pan off and found
>a pile of teeth from sixth gear laying in the bottom, there werent any
>teeth left on the gear so we decided to run it as a five speed and take it
>to the rev limiter, next we saw the drive chain was wore out so we put a new
>one on and were ready for the backup run in the morning.
>In the morning I decided to take it easy in the first few gears to see if we
>can make the chain last, We ran 264 in the quarter 282 in the mile and 319
>in the middle mile running right below the rev limiter for the whole mile.
>And bumped the record to 324, when we inspected the chain it was trashed
>again so we put a new one on and we turned the rev limiter up a few hundred
>rpm.
>Next we jumped classes to H/BGS on a 239 record our car number changed to
>1988
>On our first run we did 290 in the quarter 305 in the first mile and 334 in
>the middle mile, back to impound and put on our last chain....boy this chain
>thing is getting old.
>In the morning I lost count of what gear I was in and shifted into sixth
>that now was a "high neutral" I got it back into fifth with a lot of
>cringing on my part. We went 291 in the quarter 305 in the first mile and
>327 in the middle mile. That was good enough for a 331 average.
>
>Rick Yacoucci
|