my bonneville 17

chimp koose · November 11, 2021, 01:40:37 PM

just some pix from my bonneville trip in 17 . This is the car I was crewing on A/fuel roadster

kb426 · November 11, 2021, 05:48:21 PM

How fast did it run?

jaybee · November 11, 2021, 07:51:33 PM

What a great experience.

sirstude · November 12, 2021, 10:04:41 AM

Is it running alky, nitro, or just pulling the tape off the fuel cap? How big is the motor, I know the range but not the exact cubes?

chimp koose · November 12, 2021, 12:22:50 PM

We had a rough week having spun out once . We heard from others at the hotel that it was probably the worst year anyone knew of for spins . Seemed to be worse on the shorter wheelbase cars . We heard that by mid week they had run out of spin tags . This one is just a 468" BBC on methanol . About 860 HP . The car has gone 200+ on the short track but the record was 260+ . When this car was built the record was 232 and this car was quite capable of that . I was there to help and take in the experience . My kind of place . I was there with a friend who I helped on a BB /FC in the early 90s and also a former machining student of mine who is now married to my friends daughter . The daughter is the driver . Ill be back some day .

Beck · November 17, 2021, 05:59:52 PM

My trips to the salt on Hooley's crew are some of my fondest memories. I will cherish them forever, awesome place, super crew members, and an experience of a lifetime. All motor-heads should experience it.

chimp koose · November 17, 2021, 10:54:45 PM

I like to think of it as the last bastion of amateur motorsports . Nobody doing interviews at the end of each run listing off all the sponsors and changing logo ballcaps every few seconds . A neat place for a bunch of gearhead fabricators and mad scientists trying to do better than last year as a personal goal . These days I am more interested in getting a sweet tune on a race car rather than winning any races . The guy I am going to help next summer feels the same.

chimp koose · January 17, 2022, 08:29:15 PM

KB sorry I missed your question . We went 150 mph through the 3 mile on the long course ..... BACKWARDS. One chute tangled in the headers and burned off a lanyard . We got it fixed and made another run but the experience of looking at a blossomed parachute through the windshield @ 150mph made the driver a bit more cautious the next run . It got a bit squirrely and she aborted the run . Wise move.