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.
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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
The start of the year has led to interesting times. Unfortunately the people at Abbey were not capable of finishing our car so we were very rapidly back to square one. Luckily, after an appeal to some other land speed racers a new tuner has now been found. Rich at Redline Tuning has turned out to be
We would like to start this update with an apology (as usual). It has been unusually long since our last update and for this we apologise. This particular update is going to be a bit light on images but will contain all of the news, improvements and changes we have made since our last message.
During our recent trip to the British Motor Show we were honoured to be interviewed by The Podcast Guys. It was great to see their enthusiasm, they had spotted the car on day one and were very keen to catch up with us to make this video. For those who doubted us, here is proof