2012 SCTA awards banquet cool hardware

Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 07:52 Written by admin Monday, 28 January 2013 07:43

We picked a bunch of cool hardware at the SCTA awards banquet. Fast car of the year, fast driver of the year and wrench of the year. Thanks to my fantastic crew we kicked butt!!

May 2012 El Mirage meet

Last Updated on Monday, 28 May 2012 09:28 Written by admin Monday, 28 May 2012 09:28

After fumbling with an intermittent crank trigger problem last year we set a record at the El Mirage season opener.
We went 224.395 on a 211.260  record in E/FS

SEMA Show 2010

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 November 2010 08:39 Written by admin Friday, 5 November 2010 06:47

The Nebulous Theorem III streamliner was in the AEM booth at the SEMA show

We met with many potential sponsors

Photos by Dan Warner

El Mirage September 12, 2010

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 November 2010 08:40 Written by admin Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:43

788 XF GS Costella – Yacoucci – Pappas – Stevens Super Fours Rick Yacoucci 183.123 168.091 240

We ran the Flathead normally aspirated on gas this time and set a record of 183mph, the old record was 168mph.

There were 91 entries:   53 cars and 38 bikes.

There were 17 records:  9 bikes and 8 cars.

There were 157 starts.

We started running at 7:50 and concluded at 2:45.

The time between starts averaged 2 minutes and 17 seconds.

There was zero spins, 6 turn outs and 2 no calls.   1 Guest.

Everyone had the opportunity to run 4 times or was it 5 or 6?

Altitude Density varied from 3360 feet in the morning to 5560 feet in the afternoon.

Temperature varied from 57 degrees in the morning to 91 degrees in the afternoon.

The weather was great, little if any wind.

The course degraded through the day.

Two candidates for the “Dirty” 2 Club.

Top 10 Line Up for October

Bonneville Speedweek 2010

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 November 2010 08:41 Written by admin Sunday, 15 August 2010 09:21

Speedweek we qualified for the record on our first pass, we went 306.893 mph on the 302 mph world’s fastest flathead record. We went to impound and started servicing the streamliner we knew something in the motor had gone away as the motor was accelerating as good as it should of in the last mile. Upon inspection we found we had melted a piston so we began thrashing on the motor to get it ready in our 4 hour window of allotted time to service the car. In the morning when we went to fire the motor for our run it would not fire so back to the pit we went. To make a long story short cracks in the block were allowing compression to leak into the intake ports, exhaust ports and water jacket.  Apparently Henry Ford didn’t design the flathead block to withstand 600hp. We will try again at World Finals

Long Course Down Runs

El Mirage July 11, 2010

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 November 2010 08:40 Written by admin Sunday, 11 July 2010 07:33

We turned up the boost on the flathead again and increased our record of 238.321 mph to 238.937 mph

we didn’t put enough heat in the engine which caused it to misfire and not want to pull the revs.

788 XF BFS Costella – Yacoucci – Pappas – Stevens Super Fours Rick Yacoucci 238.937 238.321

There were 103 entries:   64 cars and 39 bikes.

There were 20 records:  10 bikes and 10 cars.

There were 165 starts.

We started running at 7:45 and concluded at 13:47.

The time between starts averaged 2 minutes and 12 seconds.

There was 1 spin, 10 turn outs and 3 no calls.  3 Guests

Everyone had the opportunity to run 4 times.

Altitude Density average varied from 5,000 to 6,000 feet.

The weather was great, about 80 to 100 degrees all day and partly cloudy most of the day

There was moderate tail winds most of the day.

The course degraded through the day.

One candidate for the “Dirty” 2 Club.

Fastest Vehicles

Top 10 Line Up for July