Danny Thompson Bonus Video - SPEED SPORT - MAVTV - Challenger 2 - Land Speed Record - Racing

so starting at the back whatever I do we have to parachute tubes the lower one would be the main chute and these are 400 mile an hour chutes but so they're fairly small but that one would be the top one would be a secondary chute in case we have any kind of failures and we have a backup system then we go up beyond that and then we got a battery system to run the computer and the telemetry type stuff and then we go down into this as an oil tank for the rear engine and this is a breather tank for both engines right here we got air for the driver it's kind of like a funny car and air comes in both sides of the helmet so you can try to get over the nitro fumes and stuff we go into air jets right here we've got four air jacks on the car because when you run an FIA meet and you have to turn it around in one hour we've put the air jacks down we cited a lazy susan right underneath the center of the car and spin it around so so we need those are those are really critical here we have air for the shifters so that we have bnj transmissions and then three speeds and they shift off of air pressure this is a Mickey Thompson tire company that my dad started many many years ago and that is the premier tire for Bonneville $3 bottles gone off of one one switch fire at all three fire one one for the rear engine front engine and one for the driver's cockpit then we move up a little bit farther we have what we call a Handley box and that's named after the guy that built it for us and it's a transfer box that connects the front engine to the rear engine via three drive shafts and it's a little bit funny because this engine sits in the car normally when we get the frontage and I'll show you normally like on a regular car so yes engine clutches and when we get to the front you have that exact same lash except you switch it around and everything's in backwards so this is a 500 inch it's a drag-racing type engine Brad Anderson makes the block so they're all aluminum billet blocks if I'm going to keep it just like I said and you know aluminum rods Pistons and that kind of stuff then we have an intake manifold that we designed to work and then we have a cue found throttle bodies on top and that's um that that a cue fab design force that seems to work really good barrel valve then to MSD ignitions per engine so just to fire off the nitromethane and its MSD boxes and boxes this is a good shaft it hooks a front engine to the rear engine goes along then we get into the driver's cockpit and which is a very very you really really compact deal I think I mentioned before if I gain five pounds I wouldn't fit in this it's so tight you got to get in there almost like a yoga move and slither yourself into the seat but it's really really really protected inside and then the race pack data control and that that indicates oil pressure and and you gotta remember everything's times two so instead of what having one no oil pressure gauge you have to have two or four gauges so everything on that whole car is x two you got two mag switches for each engine and starters on this side inside the cockpit you have fuel shutoff for both engines for nitromethane and then you got parachutes one parachute two parachutes and then you have the fire extinguisher bottles you got buttons on the steering wheel right here to shift engines from first a second second to third then once again now the whole process this and then inside a little bit farther they got the pro seatbelts and those are those are really really tight along with a Hans device and it's dam 21 helmet and so you get up here a little bit farther now what we have that there that we just explained now you have the whole thing in Reverse so now we got back to fuel shut offs and the mags and the watermen oil pumps are in there and get into the next engine now this engine all that stuff you saw on top to the throttle bodies that a cue fab made for the rear of the engine they're on here but they are in the front because right here is a line of vision that I see out this window my vision line right there coming straight across here and so we couldn't have anything set up here for the throttle body so we had to convert it and put it in front so then we go down to coast fabrication Jeff Haywood headers on both sides and now this is the have a box that we saw in the back except for now this one has this added to it and that's a reverser because the front engines and backwards so to connect the two of them we had to build a reverse box here that Hadley that to something and then the air box the air box on the front comes in all the way from the nose so it comes all the way through this long channel which is like a venturi and it gets bigger and bigger until it gets into the throttle bodies and then back the air jacks again for the front this is all part of the race back data acquisition system here so this is a fuel pump pressure nozzle pressure oil pressure that I'll read back into the digital readout and then go on to a card that we can download when after the runs over back into the air jacks for the front back into more Mickey Thompson front tires and then we run the fuel bags in the very front of this sink each one of the each one of these bags holds 30 gallons of fuel takes two gallons of fine canter hand right here one of our ace guys fabricator Jim Gibson I think I saw earlier he was on that weight there you go wait that's Lou Anderson he's one of our another main fabricator guy that's challenger to from one end to the other

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Length: 6min 17sec (377 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 26 2014