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
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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
Firstly, we’re going to start this message with an apology. The spelling mistake in the last message was unforgivable. It does however highlight how upset the author was at having to write such a disappointing message. As usual we are indebted to all of our supporters and suppliers, but sometimes someone will go above and
We are very sad to announce that we will not be able to race at this year’s speed week. Ian and Janine are still planning on attending the event (Covid permitting) but the practicalities of shipping the car have proven insurmountable. Due to this very unusual of times the shipping industry has adapted to make
What is becoming a regular feature of our project is that nothing seems to go exactly according to plan.As mentioned in our last message a few members of the team descended on Dave at Emerald for our first real dyno tune.After a very early start Harry and Ian braved the M25 and the wilds of
On the last May bank holiday Ian and Harry took the car up to our friends at Emerald with the car in a rather poorly state. Our resident auto electrician had made a new wiring loom to fit the new Emerald ECU using a mixture of old sensors and new parts to suit the distributor