gkull

I will be out at Bonneville Salt Flats August 15th through 18th. I am hoping to make a couple of runs and get my 200 mph certification. I'd like to meet up with any forum members that show up. It really a one of a kind event. I'm going out with a group of racers so we will have a large tent with plenty of refreshments.

I want to get my Cert. and then put my name out as driver for any fast vehicles.

These pictures were from last fall

battsup

Sweet and good luck man :thumbs:

Fevre

George

Good luck and have fun! :cheers:

Alwyn678

Dude that is Extremely coool......................Good luck man!! :eek: :cheers: :cool:

Jaybo

What year C3 is that? :eek: :cool:

ZD75blue

Good luck! :cheers:

SmokedTires

Have fun George, good luck on getting that 200mph cert :cheers:

PatsLs1vette

Good luck george,be safe :thumbs:

e3pres

:thumbs:

How many hp do you need to break 200mph???

gkull

One last picture. I don't know the year of the pink Vette. It was brand new and only completed a couple of days before bringing it out. They should be back. This event has the most entries ever I was told.

I'm the perfect size for most cars because my 5'10 170 lbs fits in all the tight roll cages. I'm sure that with 5 minutes of instruction I could get used to any vehicle. I believe that anything going under 300 mph is pretty safe!:)





[Modified by gkull, 12:04 PM 8/14/2003]

gkull

e3pres - I have been told it only takes about 500 hp to exceed 200 mph in our later year C-3 Vettes with lowering and proper rake. The more hp you have just gets you there faster.

The flat rear window cars get more a sloped rear window to help them out.





[Modified by gkull, 2:22 PM 8/14/2003]

A96LT4

Get a picture next to the "Tree of Utah" near Wendover on Highway 80.

flood

That would be cool to see going down the interstate a 198mph just about to break 200.

Have fun :cheers:

88'Cubka

Good luck George!

BTW. My car is smogged and registered now. :) Cut out the old pancake style cat and welded in a mondern high flow and it breezed it. :)

Wish I could make it out there but im leaving in a few days for Arkansas to work.

Again, good luck!

David :cheers:

gkull

David - I'm happy to help you get your car going. Get a new balancer

How does it go?

Maurice

Just for clarification of my inability to read between the lines. You are taking your car to go and race on the Salt Flats and are expecting to go 200 MPH in your car? Or do you have a race car you will be taking to go 200 mph, or do you have to go 200 MPH to get a 200 MPH cert? Not saying your car isn't a race car as I have heard Norris' stories about riding with you and he still breaks in a cold sweat and cant sleep for days after talking about it.

gkull

Maurice - I decided to not butcher my car any further. It's a nice dailey driver as is. I even drove it to work today! Then on weekends i can still head to the road racing track and do some hours of laps.

They now require Parachutes for anything over 200 mph. My car exceeded 200 mph nearly 2 years ago at the Salt flats with a lessor motor than I have now. It wasn't certified because I didn't meet all the safety inspections. I was lacking window netting and metal strapping for my rear window.......... I might do it someday just to have a certified 200+ street car. Maybe get in a Vette magazine:)

So I'm going to drive a friends 230 mph race car. They time you for a mile. You get a 3-4 mile run at the flying mile timed section.


[Modified by gkull, 4:38 PM 8/14/2003]

88'Cubka

It goes. Having some weird noises from the rear end and now the Diff Yokes are leaking like hell.... I don't really feel like tearing the rear end out of the car at this point, so I'm just gonna keep re filling it til I can get a Tom's Diff 12 bolt.

David

ED DINAPOLI

George, get that certification. Good luck and have a safe run.
Ed

groovyjay

200mph!!! That's something you don't see every day, at least I don't! :hurray: :lolg: