Getting ready for Bonneville(rebuild)

[rightytighty]

Hey Troy,

Enjoy your thread but your videos could use some help.. Not trying to be a jerk, but this product is cheap and works great.

http://www.goprocamera.com/products

I mentioned this to you, last time we chatted at the pizza joint..

We use it on drag boats.  The wind noise is muted and you still get to enjoy the engine sounds.  The wide angle  view is killer..  We mount one forward and one back ward.. Bad ass..

Here's a sample from a K boat.. (it's a blown alcohol roundy-round boat).  Takes about a minute to get it warmed up, but it's a real good example of the quality.. You'll see one of the cameras suctioned to the nose of the boat in one of the angles..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb69AWD8geE&feature=player_embedded

Best $300 you'll spend this year IMO...   Mostly because, I'll be able to see your car run a little more clearly.....

Selfish interest! 


Neil

[jl222]

  Looks like a great little video camera Niel. Dang I just bought another brand last speedweek had somebody tape our 1st run but it got erased somehow Good info for anyone looking for a video camera and good price too. Thanks.


                          JL222

[bvillercr]

Neil it was good to see you again and chat about racing.  Thanks for posting the go pro link, if I don't write it down I forget.   . Looks like a great product and the audio sounds great on that boat video.

[DSR88]

Hi Troy, I have been reading some of these pages on you car 63 pages is alot to read. I have always liked your guy's hot rod { impressive} 
   I seen you watched the video by your comment the D/BG motor was to shake the new car down we knew it would be good for 250 to 260 and we ended up being right. We bumped our own record 10 mph with the same engine out of the old car w/ 5 lbs less boost.As for 300 we have a bigger engine ready to go.

[bvillercr]

Your CC is impressive and very clean.  Good luck to you guys, but I hope we go 300 first.... kidding of course

[DSR88]

Different classes but same GOALS and both cars have doors on them!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like 2010 is going to be fun.Good luck to you guy's too.Your closer than we are but we will try to sneek up on ya 8-)

[12go3az]

Donnie told me I needed to check out your build site.    Real Nice !!
   Many years ago while brother & i were looking @ your car at B-ville  some guys came over & were discussing how & why your prochargers setup would NEVER work.    Later that same day you guys later went REALY FAST.  Made our day!
Nice car, see u in August.
                                         be safe-GO FAST! 

[bvillercr]

When we first built our car we were one of if not the first to have two centrifugal superchargers on an engine at Bonneville.  The looks we got every year were comical, people would come up and tell their friends;  "see those big turbos"?  Some would say that the engine compartment was a plumbers nightmare!  The car worked very good with the old set up, but it was difficult to start, tune at low RPM's, and the set up was hard on the blowers.  Now that we have our new "Build" finished, the car is more predictable.  Easier to start, computer mapping, different overdrive, better inter-cooler and so on.  The one thing that stays the same is when people see the engine they now say, look at the huge turbo!!?  Yet we still have to explain that there is a belt attached to it and it's called a centrifugal supercharger made by Procharger.  

[robfrey]

I'm thinking you guys are going to much faster than 300mph. The math says so! LOL. Should be a fun year for you guys.

[bvillercr]

I'm thinking you guys are going to much faster than 300mph. The math says so! LOL. Should be a fun year for you guys.

We have run the numbers too and as long as we don't break anything and can make a few passes without problems then we think we'll run a great number.  The great white dyno hasn't been kind to us in the past 20 years, maybe this can be a great year.   

[thundersalt]

Turbos with Zoomies, howd ya do that?

[hitz]

big supercharger not turbo

harv

[thundersalt]

big supercharger not turbo

harv

+ =attempt at humor. 

[bvillercr]

big supercharger not turbo

harv

+ =attempt at humor. 

Brian, I knew what you ment.

[bvillercr]

Been busy lately, so getting up to the car has been few and far between.  Tomorrow we will be taking out the blower system, the block and clutch.  It's that time of the year again.