2012 LTA Land Speed Runs/Trails Main Event - new class record set

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Well it was that time again this last weekend. 130 racers from all over the country flocked to Loring on Friday the 13th through Sunday the 15th for the 4th annual LTA LSR Main Event to attempt to make personal, national, and world records in the 1 mile and 1.5 mile course. Bill Warner started off the morning on Sunday by pummeling the 1 mile record for his class on his Suzuki turbo motorcycle at 290mph. I participated for my second event this time being the Main Event; last year's Harvest Edition was my first. Last year I turned in a 120.981mph for a class record. This year I was able to raise the record on late Saturday to 129.743mph with 20mph head winds. Because of the head winds I was able to only turn 5400rpm...I had 600rpm to spare with my tune. I was definitely able to feel the winds pushing my car back. Due to all of the hurdles with my motor replacement after blowing the stock one back in April it came down to the wire for me being able to run and feel confident in the car. I will be posting up videos of my car and a few more vehicles to include my friend's 91 Nissan DETSR20 powered pickup and the 730hp 69 Chevelle that he built for another local friend.

We were able to actually represent not only locally very well, but also for the state as we had a guy from Bangor (central Maine) join the 200mph club on his Ninja ZX14. My friend's Nissan would have easily joined the 200mph club however he snapped his 4" custom driveshaft from the Driveshaft Shop at 190mph/7600rpm on the first day of the trials. The Chevelle pulled out a 162mph, but found out unfortunately that the rearend was geared wrong as well as the clutch slipping from the hp/tq being produced. Another guy from the local area that I am acquaintance with ran 134mph on his Yamaha 250cc dirtbike.

The 2012 Harvest Edition will be the first weekend of September and I plan on making a wheel/tire change to lower the car and lighten up the corners. This will most likely be my last weekend if I do run in the Production Supercharged category as I am working toward a motor and custom transmission build over the winter/spring. My next goal is to skip 150mph and move straight to the 175mph for the 2013 Summer Main Event.

You will see a couple pictures of a custom luge built by a gent that I was able to talk a lot with over the weekend. I wasn't able to make the races on Sunday, but as of his last run on Saturday he had hit 169mph! The weekend was great fun. Temps were around 90 during the peak of the day and low 70s in the morning. Humidity was around 20-25%.

For those that are interested there was a guy there from Mass that had a new Subi BRZ. His fastest time clocked in at 132mph...a mere 2mph more than mine. I understand that his car is stock, but would have thought that it would have delivered more out of the gate.