Very nice! Any idea of what gearing/redline he's looking at?

 

Awesome, keep up the good work man.

 

H5-0: I don't know the specific gearing, but the engine was probably turning somewhere between 7,000-7,500rpm. The redline is probably somewhere between 8,500-9,000rpm (Nick, like most racers, isn't real specific when answering these kinds of questions).

Nick still had another mile of track to run when the coupler blew, so it wasn't even close to being maxed out at 213!!

 

Pretty cool.

Any idea on his tire diameter?

 

99gst_racer: 28.0/4.0-15

 

Shitty deal on the elbow... Since he is in the 7500rpm range, I can take that he is running a 2.3 or 2.4 stroker?

 

Cool! Now I want to see in car or dash cam video.

 

Yeah what he said ^^^

And more detailed pics of the car please

 

Wow, that's sick! The car looks like it sits pretty high though....how stable is it at speed? I know the 1G is pretty slippery right out of the box. Are there plans for more aero, or is that not allowed in your specific class? Either way, the car looks wild and I'm sure he'll break the 215 mark. Good luck!

 

^^^ I was thinking the same thing, but it looks like they got it as low as they can with a 28" tire. Their narrow width probably helps high-speed stability quite a bit though.

 

Might be time to go to V-Band for the pipe connections.

 

Wow, didn't know our cars were classified as a "sedan". Very cool that he reached that speed with so much track left to go. Is Nick's car AWD?

 

been gone a week, lots of good questions all...this AWD car was parted-out & ready to be crushed when Nick rescued it. Nick started with a rolling chassis, cut the roof off, welded the cage in, then re-welded the roof on. Its now a FWD 5-spd. 6-bolt 2.0l 4G63, still has lots of stock and junkyard engine parts incl. intake manifold & throttle body, formerly developed a lot of lift at high speed that was cured by lots of ballast, and it can't be lowered due to both the tire diameter and the no-lowering class rules that also require all stock exterior body parts (except wipers and mirrors), stock dash, and door panels.

We're heading back to Bonneville this week for World Finals(weather-permitting) so I'll take some more pics and post them soon.

 

Just curious, but why did he need to remove the roof to cage the car?

 

that is flying ! getting close to reichens evo 2 ! lol

 

love to see a video!

 

That is so sick!!

 

I'd probably leave a brown stain in the seat of my DSM at that speed. Congrats!

 

We had a local guy go 205mph with a colt swapped 4g63 on the highway

 

Was it GPS confirmed? Either way, I bet that car could barely do 135 mph on the Salt Flats. It is a crap ton harder to get up to speed on the salt flats than it is on the street, because your essentially ice skating the whole way. Even at speed, your still spinning. Salt is loose, tarmac is firm.