Good and bad news from the salt ...

Conditions SUCK. The salt is so slippery you can't believe it. Much rain Tuesday night. But it's drying quickly and should be improving.

Yes, the RR had a problem on it's first pass. Signs of detonation. Something we saw a lot of in development but we thought we had it whipped. Anyhoo, we had enough parts to put it back together but it had to go back to 1650cc in the process (not enough of the 2000cc legal parts). Several changes made to hopefully hold off the detonation this time. Finished it's reassembly too late to get it back on the salt today but it's all done and we'll take another shot tomorrow. Wish us luck.

Susan turned over the reigns of the 1350cc S1 to Richard after failing to find a solution to her lifting helmet problem. Damn thing was choking her and she couldn't hold her breath long enough. Richard ran 167 against a 150 record. That's damn fast with only 1350cc and no fairing folks. The bike is classed on M-PF but is running gasoline without any nitrous or anything. His backup run is tomorrow morning. The 166.590 M-PG record is our ultimate goal for that bike. But one step at a time.

Ray had a good day, putting a sidecar equipped Blast into impound. Sounds like it's running pretty good.

Peter managed 152mph on my M2. This is a 1250 kit equipped street bike that runs on pump gas. He's gotta do that one more time and it'll be official for the 150 club. Then Paul is going to try it.

Terry Parsley is running a 600 Blast but he's struggling with the gearing. He'll get it sorted.
FMJ had some fuel delivery issues but he's working on it.

Lots of other folks here and much more to report, but I don't have more details, I was awfully busy rebuilding a motorcycle as you might imagine. These folks I mentioned are all running Nallin Racing stuff so I try to keep up with how they're doing.

We have a BIG group. Probably 50+. Seems like anywhere you walk in the paddock, you see folks with Team Elves shirts.

Several records set this morning ... Richard, Henrik, Chop, and Ray all made it into the books.

Quick update on my part of this deal before dinner ... we changed the fuel in both bikes, the RR to combat detonation and the S1 because it was being moved to the gas class.

Both changes put us into the weeds on tuning. The gas did not move the jetting in the direction it was supposed to, based on the differences in the specific gravity of the fuel and the advice of the fuel man. Each bike got 3 passes in today and by the third pass, we were getting the tuning close, but we still weren't there. The RR ran 190.8 against a 192.2 record and the S1 ran 165.9 against a 166.6 record. We're hoping that another fine adjustment coupled with the cool morning air and continually improving (but still bad) salt will put us there. If we had conditions like we had last October, we'd already be there. But no excuses, gotta get it done.

Wish us luck!

Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 11:45 pm:   
   
Snail ran 172 against a 182 record is what I heard.

Yes, Peter is here and he made the 150 club! His backup pass was 153mph. PaulinOZ has now taken over the controls of the M2 from Peter and is going for 150 club status.

Correction Court ... Richard set the 1350cc M-PF record aboard Susan's S1, at 166.9mph. This is the motor you helped with.

It was done on gasoline but no nitrous or anything, and no windscreen either. He's now going after the 166.590 M-PG record of 166.590 held by Carl somebody, never heard of the guy.