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Race Team The Bonneville Land Speed Project

John Burk is building a Bonneville streamliner. We are hoping to go about 350 MPH and take the A/GS record home to Hainesport, New Jersey. The record currently is 332 MPH.

The car is front wheel drive with the engine well ahead of the front axle resulting in about 90% of the weight on the front wheels.

The drive train is a gasoline burning 497 CI Big Block chevy with fuel injection and a 45 degree tilt to decrease the width of the body. It uses a Doug Nash 5 speed clutchless trans, Casale V-drive, Strange 12 bolt dropout housing in a Chevy Pickup 4 wheel drive front axle.

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offset distributor 12-13 John switched from a Electromotive waste spark system to a conventional MSD ignition requiring the offset distributor.
Plumbing dry sump 9-12	Finishing Engine July 2012
G-force trans 3-12	Heil Coil Spark Plug 3-12	Seat Mod 1-12
Chassis painting with POR-15 6-11	Chassis painting with POR-15 6-11
Rear wing 3-2009	Rear wing side view - profile 3-2009	Rear wing - about 7 foot wing span 3-2009
Chute release 3-2009
Windshield - Lexan 7-2008	Inside of canopy showing windshield attachment 7-2008	Canopy & windshield 7-2008
Finished fiberglass tail section 4-2008	Applying resin 4-2008	Cutting glass cloth 4-2008
Mold for fiberglass tail section 4-2008	Mold for fiberglass tail section 4-2008	Mold for fiberglass tail section 4-2008
Centering bellhousing on block 11-2007	Checking starter drive engagement 11-2007
Nose / Air intake 3-2007	Nose / Air intake 3-2007	Nose / Air intake 3-2007
Nose / Air intake 3-2007	Nose / Air intake 3-2007	Nose / Air intake 3-2007
Fire bottles	Dyno BBC
11-06-06 Gussets on chute tubes	11-6-06 Dash mock-up	11-6-06 Tig welding on cage gussets
4-12-06 Right Exhaust thru body & blister	4-12-06 RH Exhaust	4-12-06 LH exhaust thru body
4-12-06 Cooling system 3	4-12-06 Cooling system 2	4-12-06 Cooling system 1
Blisters 1-25-06	Blisters 1-25-06	Blisters 1-25-06
		Fuel injection
Home made English wheel	11-03-05 front axle area body segment The jack stand is supporting a tube where the front wheel drive hubs will require blisters.	Wing stabilizers - Recommended by a highly regarded aero space engineer because there was too much biongggg.
Wing stabilizer mount clip. The stabilizer itself is aero profiled.
Body progress wing/tail chute scallops faring on belly pan 9-1-05	Canopy back 9-1-05	Faring 9-1-05
\| Faring detail It will almost touch the salt 9-1-05	Merge point at the rear of faring. Taken from the ground looking up, shows soild center for strength. 9-1-05	Faring bracket front 9-1-05
Wing - Tail 2-15-05	Wing - Tail 2-15-05
Wing - tail 01/2005	Wing - tail 01/2005	Dzus spacing 01/2005
Left side headers 01/2005	Left side headers 01/2005	Right side headers 01/2005
John around 9-02	Body - canopy 03-04	Speed sensor setup on buick hub 12-03
Body bucks going to the body man		More speed sensor
First fit of the side pannels	Chute tubes
A shot of the Strange 12 bolt drop out mounted upside down and backwards. It will hold a 2.29 ring & pinion.		Mechanical fuel injection manifold. The setup is from racing air planes - adjusts mixture based on altitude. Bonneville is 5000 ft alt but looks like 1000 foot at 300 MPH