Just got back from unloading cars and collecting data from a trip to Kennedy Space Center where we did some testing of our car and a few other customer cars.
The nascar style transporter (with a/c lounge) had a lift failure and we had to either trailer the cars or drive them as well as work for two 14 hour days in stifling heat with only tents and a fan or two.
This also meant that we left a twin turbo Z06 behind.
This is the 2006 daytona pace car that jay leno drove in the race.
The dash says "Hi Jay" when you start the car.
A girl drove it 150mph in the standing mile.
This girl went faster than her husband in a N20 injected challenger going 171 in the standing mile.
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Her husband was not amused and refused to let her drive his ford GT which hit around 200mph in the standing mile.
We had to clear off the runway so Gabrielle Gifford's husband could land his T38.
This one saw 200mph but it is an amazingly set up road race car that is a daily driver.
It is often seen owning all at porsche club meets on the east coast.
It was so hot I expected to see this alligator walk upright and a few of us were close to passing out......well.....the dummies who wore long pants and black shirts.
We decided not to harrass him as he was touchy after being harrassed by the film crew from a recent Transformers movie.
We broke the transmission and I'm guessing the amazing traction provided by the grooved concrete surface coupled with 2000hp is to blame so we were not able to bring the car to it's 280mph potential.
Here's where the nose gear touched down on sts 133.
The speeds mentioned are for one mile runs starting from a dead stop.....all of these the cars are capable of much higher top speeds.
The guys at NASA were really cool and I could see the wheels turning in thier heads about how they could sign up with us for a chance to run the runway in thier cars.......not sure if that's a conflict of interest but we would accomodate them if they asked.
That said, having gearheads at nasa allowed us access to places one would not normally be able to access such as getting to drive a corvette to the launchpad.
Back to reducing the data....have to see what kind of lift or downforce as well as what the turbo inlet pressure drop was for our runs but the twin turbo GT ran very hard and only used 30% injector duty cycle at 20psi boost so it seems we have enough injector for the next engine that makes 2500hp at near 12,000 rpms.........oh....and pulling the heads from that factory five cobra replica.
