I'm down at the Maxton mile shaking out a Bonneville car for which I built an engine. For those of you not familiar, the Maxton mile is a land speed event held on a paved airport runway in North Carolina. You do a standing start and accelerate for one mile. In our case a run is about 30 seconds.
The people are very friendly, and there are some pretty cool cars here: A hemi powered Superbird replica, a tube frame Studebaker with a setback hemi, a Nascar stocker, a bunch of roadsters (one 4wd), and bikes ranging from 100cc up to god knows what. The turn out is pretty small as i guess everyone knows NC in june is pretty brutal. (about 90 today)
The car is a homebuilt lakester owned by a Mercedes restoration shop. This year he switched from Mercedes power to a 1.8T. We did a couple of runs at low boost (10 psi) then got in a late run at 20psi. Despite a couple of small issues, the run went pretty well.
