Comments on: The Race to Bonneville http://www.motorburg.com/?p=1037 An automotive art community, magazine and forum. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:12:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Mike Morrow http://www.motorburg.com/?p=1037&cpage=1#comment-332 Mike Morrow Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:04:13 +0000 http://www.motorburg.com/?p=1037#comment-332 After months of hard work and weeks of 20 hour days, the Spectre SpeedLiner made its first run at approximately 2:10pm on Friday October 9th. As we began to push Kenny down the salt in the Double Dually push truck, the car coughed, stalled, and then fired to life in a roar of twin-turbocharged Cadillac fury. He quickly pulled away and said the motor provided incredible acceleration, with endless torque. Since this was the shakedown run Kenny was supposed to keep the speeds very low, but the way the car kept acceleration we knew he decided to tickle the throttle a bit. Then over the radio we heard the announcement: at the 3 mile mark (the full course is 5 miles) the car was going 287mph and accelerating hard. At n early 300mph, the SpeedLiner instantly became the world’s fastest Cadillac. Then Kenny reported a malfunction in the fire system, which caused one of the fire bottles to empty all over the cockpit – soaking Kenny and making it very difficult to see. He pulled the shoots and coasted to a stop. The crew is feverishly working on the car now, inspecting all the hard parts, pouring over the data stream from the engine management system, cleaning all the fire supressent agent out of the cockpit and fixing the system itself. We’re hoping to have the car ready for a second run this evening or first thing tomorrow morning, and this time we’re going for the record. After months of hard work and weeks of 20 hour days, the Spectre SpeedLiner made its first run at approximately 2:10pm on Friday October 9th. As we began to push Kenny down the salt in the Double Dually push truck, the car coughed, stalled, and then fired to life in a roar of twin-turbocharged Cadillac fury. He quickly pulled away and said the motor provided incredible acceleration, with endless torque.

Since this was the shakedown run Kenny was supposed to keep the speeds very low, but the way the car kept acceleration we knew he decided to tickle the throttle a bit. Then over the radio we heard the announcement: at the 3 mile mark (the full course is 5 miles) the car was going 287mph and accelerating hard. At n early 300mph, the SpeedLiner instantly became the world’s fastest Cadillac.

Then Kenny reported a malfunction in the fire system, which caused one of the fire bottles to empty all over the cockpit – soaking Kenny and making it very difficult to see. He pulled the shoots and coasted to a stop. The crew is feverishly working on the car now, inspecting all the hard parts, pouring over the data stream from the engine management system, cleaning all the fire supressent agent out of the cockpit and fixing the system itself. We’re hoping to have the car ready for a second run this evening or first thing tomorrow morning, and this time we’re going for the record.

]]> By: Jimmy Smith http://www.motorburg.com/?p=1037&cpage=1#comment-309 Jimmy Smith Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:28:44 +0000 http://www.motorburg.com/?p=1037#comment-309 That's the key...."wheel driven" vs. "thrust driven"....will be interesting to see if they are successful. That is some GRUNT right there! That’s the key….”wheel driven” vs. “thrust driven”….will be interesting to see if they are successful. That is some GRUNT right there!

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