Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Different Lookin'----and fast !



These are a couple rear engine roadsters from the Flats.
The red one is current design, and the blue car is a vintage job.
These cars have the driver in front of the roadster body, because the engine and gear box/differential fill up the car body.
The Speedwagen Roadster has such a short mill/transaxle set up that I hope to keep the driver in the Roadster body. The Chassis willl need to be lengthened to 140" wheel base, and the driver needs to loose about a 100 pounds to fit in the car. Baron Von Chop has been feed to many Pop Tarts.

Speedwagen lost it roof--oh my

The Speedwagen hauler with its flat bed conversion adaptor, made the run to Kokomo to rescue this 27 T roadster body. This will be the new Tail End for the Speedwagen rear engine modified roadster.

J.W. left an old rear engine race car body in my drive way years ago. I never knew what to do with it, but the front end may be nose of the Speedwagen Roadster

Stay tuned to see where we go from here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

NEW record set at Bonneville Speedweek


The HONDATA Bonneville team blew up a bunch of records at speed week this year.
They hung the G/GCC record on the MOON

http://www.hondata.com/rsx-landspeed.html


4240 car number
Hondata CRX (yep it's a little ricer with a belly pan and some nose work--with one BAD motor)
G
GCC
187.077-new record!
Miriam Macmillan-Congratulations to all.

To keep from burning cash to chase this amasing record with a new car, we are going to roll the SPEEDWAGEN out as a Rear Engine Modified Roadster. G/GRMR.

So, for the time being the speedwagen will put its VW Comp Coupe skin in the rafters, and debut as a 27 T roadster.

I'm rollin up to Kokomo tomorrow to check out a roadster body. Some times you hold em, some times you fold em---we ain't FOLDIN'

The Speedwagen crew wants a world record in their resumes

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Lil' Wrenchette

Our youngest Wrenchette, Elise has her own tuning tips.
You stick your pacifier down the zoomie, then you taste it to see how the
engines burning. Ain't she sweet!

Monday, August 4, 2008

Keep an eye on Bonneville



http://www.bonnevilleracing.com/car-classifications.asp

http://www.scta-bni.org/

http://www.saltflats.com/

http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/bvillecar/bvillecarindexpage.html

---If your interested in whats up for Speed Week, the links above are a good place to start.----

abandoned formula ford needs a new home

Here is your chance to rescue an abandoned Formula Ford fiberglass body.
For a small donation to the "Speedwagen Parts Foundation" this varmit can be yours.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

B-25 Belly Tank is looking for a new HOME

Tank only--500 USD
You know you want it !

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

"H" class engine option


GM has a new blown 1.4 engine.



This might be a good platform for an "H" class power plant.

"H" class is from 1.01 to 1.5 litre engines.



Gizzmo-A-Rama

To avoid confusion---The pic above is not a Gizmo, It's a Thing-a-ma-jig


http://www.mekanizmalar.com/index.shtml
Gizmo-Aholics BEWARE!

Wageneer Dan-O sent this link to me and hooked me into watching Gizzmo's for longer than I planned.


Monday, July 21, 2008

Warp Drive

Still workin' the "bugs" from the warp drive of Bugzilla

EVEN THE BIG DOGS ARE HAVING SOME PROBLEMS TOO---

http://www.nasa.gov/lb/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html