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
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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
After the disappointing news that we would not be able to compete at the September race meeting at Pendine Sands in South Wales. The decision was made that as a team we would still attend to both support the other competitors and to catch up with friend old and new. The event itself was unfortunately
Over the last few weeks we have been working flat out to prepare the car for the Straightliners event at Pendine Sands in Wales.This world famous site is the only place in the UK that bares any resemblance to the salt flats in Utah. In between the show at Farnborough and our recent trip to
Originally this message was intended to be our report on Speed Week 2021 at Bonneville. We sent our intrepid reporters out there in the form of Smiling Hank, John, Ted and Crow. We have some fantastic images and news about the events on the salt, however that will have to wait for another time as
This should have been our final post before we left for speed week this year. Quite obviously that’s not happening! We have also learned that a number of teams from the UK that were building their vehicles in the USA have also had to cancel their plans. We share their disappointment and would encourage all
Since our last update we have had rather a bumpy ride. Andy and Harry took the car down to see Jim at JKM. Jim had agreed to run the car on his dyno to see whether he could improve on the mapping. As JKM is in Portsmouth this is a lot closer to us and