We appreciate your interest and support! We will continue in our efforts to maximize the near-stock engine and fuel system package until we are satisfied we have achieved all it can deliver. Then we will move on to phase two in our quest to push the truck to 190 MPH.
Because we wanted to make some upgrades to our racer’s ’08 engine and because time was rapidly running out for getting it done in time to attend the August '09 Speed Week event, we opted to reduce the stress on ourselves and cancel out of all three 2009 Salt Flat events.
In a last minute decision, some of the guys and I decided to attend the August Speed Week event as spectators. That did it! Before we knew it, those go-fast flames had been rekindled. On the way home, we brainstormed about building an interim engine for the September and October 2009 events. Time was tight so this engine would not be able to use the planned-on upgrades for the race engine. Instead, it would be a more conventional build up of a standard engine: much more similar to we find in our everyday drivers. Then I learned that our engine machinist, Rich Eims of Joe’s Grinding in Yakima, was on vacation and would not be able to complete necessary machining operations in time to support our schedule.
In a last minute decision, some of the guys and I decided to attend the August Speed Week event as spectators. That did it! Before we knew it, those go-fast flames had been rekindled. On the way home, we brainstormed about building an interim engine for the September and October 2009 events. Time was tight so this engine would not be able to use the planned-on upgrades for the race engine. Instead, it would be a more conventional build up of a standard engine: much more similar to we find in our everyday drivers. Then I learned that our engine machinist, Rich Eims of Joe’s Grinding in Yakima, was on vacation and would not be able to complete necessary machining operations in time to support our schedule.