FJ Land speed racer

[Troyskie]

let's see 205! Safe flight mate!

[FJmonkey]

At your speeds you don't need clearance from flight control, you need it from NASA. Great work, thanks for bringing us along for your ride.

[Bones]

Good luck mate, show em what the FJ's made of.

[ribbert]

187 into the wind and more nitrous to go?.... you'll bolt it in!

I hope the weather Gods smile on you tomorrow and St Columbanus is riding shotgun.

Good luck.

Noel

[racerrad8]

1.8...

Randy - RPM

[fj1289]

SPOILER ALERT

[FJmonkey]

Awesome!!

[aviationfred]

Those are numbers to be proud of.....


Fred

[PaulG]

If my weight equalled the last run, I'd be extatic!  So theoretically if you had a headwind then you probably did break 200mph.  If you new your drag co-efficient it could be calculated.  Next project - wind tunnel!  Great job.   

[fjbiker84]

Outstanding!

[ribbert]

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Tantalisingly close.

The engine, the bike and yourself all remain intact and you got near enough to smell it, not an entirely bad outcome for the weekend and you have a whole year to find 1.8 mph.

Well done.

Noel

[Bearly Flying]

Congrats on some awesome numbers.

Pretty Damned good for an old girl..

[racerrad8]

The engine, the bike and yourself all remain intact and you got near enough to smell it, not an entirely bad outcome for the weekend and you have a whole year to find 1.8 mph.

Noel

Well, almost correct. We hit the bust part...




I will let Chris tell the whole story. I only got the readers digest version yesterday when he got home. There was little hiccup which resulted in some, hopefully minor engine damage/blown head gasket.

Without that hiccup, is sounded like 200+ would have happened pretty easily.

But, I do find it very gratifying we were able to get so close to the target speed on the first attempt. Especially after all of the issues that plagued us last year and no runs were even attempted.

The fact a 30 plus year old base engine & motorcycle, the application of some current technology and we almost made it to 200. Then to top all of that off, it was done at more than a mile above sea level (5525 ft) where there is not much air to work with.

Once the engine gets back to California, we will be able to tear it down and see how we can make more horsepower.

This has been exciting & fun. This is why we race.

Randy - RPM

[giantkiller]

Great job. So much work. For just a few seconds. So close.Means you'll get it next year for sure. Thanks for letting us share in all your work.

[fj1289]

Congrats on some awesome numbers.

Pretty Damned good for an old girl..

It was really cool to see people's opinions change during the meet as we really started to make some progress.   The first day the FJ was mostly a curiosity piece, then as we got into the 170's people started telling us good job, then when we put up the 180's we started to get some serious questions, then when we posted the 194 on the first run on Sunday even the well known veterans we chatted with earlier in the weekend came by to pay their respects and wish us well - very cool!