Mad Fabricators Presents: Stormin' Bonneville Episode 7

the monsters we're getting ready to race for the first time it's really exciting and one thing that i wanted to do before i got on the salt with the car was um unfortunately last few years we've lost some really close friends to me many people knew bob k green chevy 300 000 miles on that car we lost him a few years back to cancer and um some friends of the family uh sent me his his jacket that was always in the chevy in the trunk of his chevy for when he was at wherever and he got cold he would throw this jacket on if you knew bob you may have seen him wearing this jacket at one time or another so when friends of the family sent this to me i was um i was very touched by it and i decided i wanted to put it in my car uh in the race car with me so he can ride along with me for my first run in the salt uh we lost another one of our really good friends joe um many people knew joe teague he was one of my crew members or potentially a crew member before we got to be do anything on the salt we lost him in a tragic accident and kind of to pay homage to him too for being a crew member i had made him it's crucial so on that same note i'm going to wrap this shirt up with bobcay's jacket these two gents are gonna ride along in the car with me for the first run and um be with me in spirit uh i think they would like that uh i'm joking up a little um and then i think after after this uh run i'm gonna give this shirt to jay joe's best friend and let him hang on to it for good keeping and that's all we're going to go race for the first time that's exciting let's go see what it does do this do this [Music] what's happening right now going racing who's all back there everybody are you excited there's a little blue car following us we're gonna go get in line i don't imagine there's too many people in a short course line uh we're gonna go uh see what the car will do finally for the first time it's really exciting this is why we're here this is why we're here right yeah this is why we're here this is why we came [Music] my [Music] [Music] is your very first run all right now what's your potential how fast like your class all right so anything over 125 if you run 125.5 you're good i'll give you your d if you running 150 you're still okay but just don't blow past it all we want to do is see how you handle the car follow directions you did pretty good at normal okay so you're going to one mile marker and then shut off dude which way you're going to turn out got it which way you're going to turn out if you roll a blown engine or fire to the left yeah if you have any incident any issue if you don't feel good short of breath turn to the left that looks good all right parachutes are ready no shoes oh shoot okay fire bottles aren't all right be safe out there thank you sure all right [Music] [Music] so [Music] um [Music] record is 156 mile two 93.913 how'd it go i think we lost a water hose i think it got a little wet was it fun yeah yeah yeah it was a blast it's bumpy as that was it really you did like i think 92 or 3 or something like that but i felt it pulling pretty hard and fourth yeah and i i kind of felt comfortable to go to fifth nothing oh really it's doing good and fourth i should have never went to overdrive well now we know yeah um and i think we lost a water hose or something that's pissing all the water yeah congratulations you ran bonneville dude you're dead [Music] round two [Music] imagine being squeezed down in seat belts and a big fat helmet with your head crazy huh [Music] so take some deep breaths all right buddy relax focus [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] did it at least you broke 100. it didn't really feel faster i was trying to look at the tack and keep an eye on the water temp yeah because i was afraid we might blow another hose yeah i didn't turn the water on until like the half mile or so nice and it never got above like 160. i never even looked at the speedometer it was good though i feel a lot better about it than i did yesterday because i wasn't as shocked with the bumps right i don't think it has more than that it kind of maxed out i think if we do that gear change it'll pull harder so i don't know i think we should give that a shot let's do it have a um a good friend ron san giovanni he came over and gave us some really good advice he was telling us how you know you you do things one step at a time and not try to do too many things so you can pinpoint where your problems are um so he uh he advised me to get down and so that's exactly what i'm going to do we're going to go back out and do the same run and see if i go any faster well we're going to do it ron says yeah uh we'll leave the gears and we'll go back out run it like this and see what happens [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] so pop the hose again 105 same same same when the water pump flew off the hose blew off when i was on the run lost everything packed the heat i don't know if it blew the motor or not but that's it for today i don't know if it's blown or not but we'll see yeah i thought it was gonna break it [Music] so we went out the last run um after a jet change and um pretty much did the same thing so now we're just trying to go through a process of elimination to try something different and see if it makes a difference this motor just doesn't want to go i don't know that there's too much more we can do about it so now we're going to change uh gear sets go to a lower gear and see if it pulls in the morning we just lost a water hose on that last run and i'm sure that the motor got nice and hot but we got everything back together and got the water flowing and um it seems to be fine everything's still got good oil pressure nothing's leaking and it's cycling the water again so i think we're good there um we're just going to get this gear set changed and uh hope for the best we're going to get a run first thing in the morning um probably our last run unless things go really amazing i mean well they're going to drag the courses and it might be smoother and we might have more control and it might just pull faster um don't really know we got two runs in now at 105 and um that's about what it seems to want to do uh so we're gonna see if we got suck some more out of it and then um if not we'll pack it up and uh hang out in the pits and enjoy the rest of the our little adventure and then we'll head home and take the carport [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me go boys so once the speed equipment runs 105 901 and miles two on the course number two 108.934 in the quarter it's a 146 record so he's got a ways to go yet that's the next [Music] how do you do you feel like it went faster what did you think you did i saw one time it rattled the screw out of your channel oh my god so is that our final run yeah i mean we might be able to get it to go faster but i don't want to do a bunch of work to get a couple more miles an hour i mean yeah we got four runs we've gone a little bit faster every time so that's cool that's the progression of speed right it feels good we didn't go we didn't do worse so right do the course seem smoother no i went i can't see it all the way over to other side of the blue on that side and then i hit some rough stuff over there and i went all the way back on this side again oh it was all good awesome good job yeah good job guys [Music] so we finished up with our racing uh this morning um we did one last run we did a better speed um i'm pretty happy with it content with at least not going backwards so i'm calling it a win all the way around the guys the crew worked really hard and we're just all kind of kicking back in the pits now taking a break for next year i want to put a fast motor in it some coilovers get some rear suspension in there i tried to soak up as much of it as i could in in the brief minute or two that the run lasted i tried to retain as much of the information as i can and i wrote everything down so i don't forget stuff again but we're going to make some changes for next year and we're going to try to do faster speeds and it's going to be exciting and even though we we did make it to the salt last year the storm maybe maybe it's fate maybe we weren't supposed to run last year so we finally did get to do it now a year later i started this adventure about 15 years ago now and it's nice to put a little bit of closure on getting to drive the car on the salt it uh it really feels pretty awesome to be able to finally do it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you got to ride with me in the car i have nice for him you deserve it let's check out here that's why you're really here sneaky [Laughter] beast anyway you know he's always going to be a part of the team and he's always going to be with us yeah out on the salt no matter what you know i'm thinking about him on the way over here just he's always on my mind [Music] the monsters are coming out

Channel: MAD FABRICATORS TV

Views: 8,564

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: bonneville, bonneville speed week, Luckys hot rods, mad fabricators society, Stormin Bonneville, SCTA, Sidewinders, racing, competition coupe, land speed racing, stromberg racing division

Id: xsoKQjb7oPE

Length: 25min 34sec (1534 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 30 2020