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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: icepac on June 22, 2011, 01:19:30 PM
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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.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9763_resize.jpg)
This girl went faster than her husband in a N20 injected challenger going 171 in the standing mile.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9674%20(1)_resize.jpg)
Her husband was not amused and refused to let her drive his ford GT which hit around 200mph in the standing mile.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9918_resize.jpg)
We had to clear off the runway so Gabrielle Gifford's husband could land his T38.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_1619_resize.jpg)
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.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_2091_resize.jpg)
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.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_8950_resize.jpg)
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.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9476_resize.jpg)
Here's where the nose gear touched down on sts 133.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9279_resize.jpg)
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.
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well.. at least the tranny looks fairly easy to get to :)
Sssmokin that you were able to do that there .. thanks for sharin the pix .. amazin day looks like.
NASA = gearheads/speedfreaks ..it's like a job requirement :)
Useda be a 'rocket scientist' no less at Schaeffer Magnetics back in the day.. people that made the actuators for Voyager an such.
The actuators are still workin last I heard.
I built some for the Mars Observer an other toys that are up there now.
-Frank aka GE
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Kind of easy to get to but unbelievably hard to remove from the car by itself rather than with the engine....which takes two days rather than the 2 hours I takes me to remove a mustang terminator engine and transmision.
There's still plenty in the way for matt and frank to remove.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9592%20(1)_resize.jpg)
Matt and frank were the lucky ones as I spent my time inside the sauna like car tracing a suspected electrical gremlin for the 2 step rev limiter wiring that did not exist as we found out later.
This included having my head where the pedals are under the dash while I defended my wiring scheme to the guy in the white shirt (inventor of FAST, accell DFI, and Big Stuff ecus). After all that, it was a failure within the ecu so I got out to recover from the onset of heat stroke by lying down under a truck while he got to replacing the ecu.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9287_resize.jpg)
A factory GT rear deck lid opens up this way and makes working on the engine a chore hated by MR-2, porsche 914, and Fiero owners.
(http://www.performancepowerracing.com/images/ImageGallery/2011_Guinness_World_Record/med/_MG_9255_resize.jpg)
Ours opens the opposite direction for easy access to the engine/transmission but it still has to be removed for major work
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Impressive! Thanks for sharing.
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Just got back from unloading cars and collecting data from a trip to Kennedy Space Ce
Here's where the nose gear touched down on sts 133.
He was off centerline :bolt:
j/k... cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice pics. I have pics of a Blue GT that was at Hennessey on one visit.
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NASA might as well take in car racing. It's not like they will be using the runway for space vehicles very much in the future the way things are going. :(
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I love that place.
Sweet pics!
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Fixed
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see? what i think happened with the rev limiter, was that you messed up the wiring. it then cooked the ECU, i mean....c'mon...we all know that ECU;s don't fail without a reason. that's why you spent so much time under the dash......fixing your mess up, so you didn't get the blame. :noid :neener:
seriously.....cool pics. at least that car was probably clean in the footwell while you worked there. you oughtta smell some of the cars i gotta climb under, :noid
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cant belive you all didnt feed the gator, poor things ribs are showing :frown:
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cant belive you all didnt feed the gator, poor things ribs are showing
He does look slightly anorexic...
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He does look slightly anorexic...
Probably just needs a little Gatoraid. :D
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I wonder what the security at NASA will do when you aproach asking to drive down their runway on any given day to toss a couple chickens out the window to feed the local pet gator?
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Security is tight.....this has taken a year of negotiations.
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Security is tight.....this has taken a year of negotiations.
And organized marriages of many member's daughters to select security personnel? :devil :aok
Glad it worked out and you guys got to use it.