As the fictional Colonel John ‘Hanibal’ Smith was fond of saying “We love it when a plan comes together!” Thanks to the wonderful people at Transglobal Logistics all of the race vehicles arrived safe and sound exactly when they said it would. The good ship MSC JEONGMIN docked at Oakland California (very near San Francisco) on the
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To us in the team, we have a number of priorities. The engineering behind turning a classic GT car into a land speed racer. Trying to improve the top speed of our car by 155%. Taking our opportunities in life. Inspiring others to consider trying something a little unusual. By far, the most important (to
As the car is on the water at the moment our opportunities for any engineering improvements are severly limited. The last few years have been very hard on the project and all of the delays and global price rises in all aspects have had a negative affect on the team. For the movie buffs amongst
After what feels like an awfully long time and a huge amount of very hard work we are finally, packed and on our way to America! When we returned from our, once in a lifetime, never to be repeated trip to Bonneville in 2018 we planned to return in 2020. Our unfinished business needed settling.
As our regular readers will know, after an ‘interesting’ year of real world testing the car is now as ready as ever to leave for America. We have secured some storage in California and our plan is to get all of the racing vehicles out there ASAP. Once in California, all the team then needs
Now that autumn is very much upon us and the weather is becoming more and more unpredictable we have completed our last events for 2022. Once again, we made the trip up to Elvington for the final two day event of the year. The straightliners guys had pulled out all the stops for the last
As we were too far along with our plans for the holiday side of our trip to Bonneville Ian, Janine, Harry and Penny flew out to Utah to enjoy the racing at Bonneville in 2022. With great expectations we all made our way Wendover (the nearest town to Bonneville) where we were joined by our
In an unusual start for this sort of update we are going to begin with the bad news. As we mentioned in our last update the global shipping system is in a real mess at the moment. When it came down to our requirements, the arrival date was really critical and through no fault of
As our regular readers will know things have been very busy in the workshop of late. A quick recap, we had finally found an engine tuner that was not only willing but capable of completing the tune of our race engine. Alas, part of tuning process is to push things to their limits. What this
Time is running short as it looks like we may be shipping the car out to America in the next few weeks. As a result we have been working hard to get all of the detail work finished, things like fitting the new harness and door net. Our new engine is still being run in
The case of the mystery noise has finally been solved. A quick recap, whilst on the dyno under load, the car developed a concerning noise. Our tuner Rich did exactly the right thing and stopped the enigne immediately. Before this, he did however notice that the oil pressure was still good and the engine was
Following on from our first trip to the guys at Redline Tuning in Essex, we were given a list of updates that were necessary to get the car up to speed. There were some minor modifications to wiring loom to make full use of our ECU. Straightforward cutting and joining. Our two high pressure fuel pumps were