Ted is building me a 500HP+ monster as I write this,which will be topped off with Mummert ported aluminum heads.

So if any one out there makes it to the salt this august,look me up.

Pictures would be nice.

Charlie

Charlie,I will look for your new project,I met Tim last year in the "Brick", as he was staged near us on the 3rd/ special course. Im also on a team that runs a XFGR (32 Ford).

When I saw the Brick,I knew I had to check out the Y Block.Thats a great looking truck.

I was afraid someone was going to ask for pictures,I still need to "learn" how to add them,I should probably ask my 10 year old!!!!!!!!!

                                                                     Keith

Looking forward to this summer,should be lots of fun.

See ya there.

Yes, I am,The car I will be racing is the black 59c coupe.

My car is ready for the salt,just need to pass tech when we get there!

Ted has finished my engine,& has posted a dyno sheet in the aftermarket heads section.

As you can see this should be a monster in a 32 Ford 3 window coupe.

Leaving the northeast corner of NY on the 6th bright & early,meeting up with Ted in Chyenne Whyoming on the 9th,& will pull on to the flats first day of tech,the 11th.

Hope to meet,Charlie Burns,& talk with Tim again.

                                                            Keith Cornell

The engine.

The coupe!

The engine man!

Keith contemplating big speed.

Final speed was 175.539 mph after four gear changes and a roll of duct tape.  Here’s a picture of the car starting off on one of its runs.

 In an attempt to get more air to the carb, Keith fully opened up the grill and that slowed the car down significantly.  Went the other direction and completely sealed off the grill and went 173+ mph.  After that, duct tape went over all the hood seams and some of the suspension parts to get some better aerodynamics.  Here’s a picture of the Rolling Bones skull on the grill that also got the tape treatment.

Keith has some ideas on getting fresh air to the carb but that comes later as there will be some fabrication involved.

Prior to Keith running the 175mph number, three other drivers (including myself) did run the car down the course for licensing.  I can say with authority that the car is rock steady at 158 mph as that’s where I held it for two miles at a steady state speed.

Thank you Keith for giving me the opportunity to drive.  It’s a blast.

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Just got home today about 3 pm (8/22),unloaded the coupe & of course had to start it up & blast it down the road before parking it in the shop.

I think we made some believers in the Y block,@ Bonneville.I have to say thanks again to Ted Eaton for the 343 Y, that most people thought was a BBC,under the hood.

Also to John Mummert for the dedication,time & expense it took to develope the heads,& intake.

Tim it was good to see you again,Nice meeting you Charlie,good luck to both of you with your trucks.

I am hoping that Loring has more events,I know there is one in Sept,but after being gone for 16 days,its not possible for me to get up there.

Thanks to all for the nice words.                                     Keith

I stopped by your pit area a couple of times but each time you were out running the wheels off that y block powered coupe, again congrats!!!

We broke and left Tuesday.

Hmmmmm, sounds like Ted may be getting salt fever.

Missouri Mike

Keith and Ted, congratulations on a job well done.  It is such a great feeling to set a goal and have to work hard to accomplish it and you guys were so successful.  It was nice to meet you too Keith, only one thing, you, Ted and Tim now have higher licenses than me..........if all goes well, I plan to do something about that!!!

Hey charlie, if i remember right, you started this madness, ha,ha. Go get em!!

Mike

Been busy with changes & hopefully areo improvments on my coupe.

Ted "fine tuned" the 343 y So I am just about ready.

I cant believe I actually figured out how to post pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Also bringing the windshield & side lexan flush to the outer panels,& if time permits a full belly pan.

Now I will see if I remember how I added photos yesterday!!!!!

Oh yea plans were to paint the car & make it real slippery,well I got the doors done............

"Hey Corky,

Forget about the engine, just add a large pipe to your mouth and jet that
out the back of the aircraft. There's so much hot air coming out, you
should break the sound barrier. The amount of thrust created by this affect
will be negligible at best. Get out your thermodynamics book and see for
yourself.

Stan Kapushinski"

There's one on every forum.

Hers the latest shots,1st time outside,since I drove her in the shop last August!!!!

Thanks Hollow Head for the "enter" in between images tip...

In my class Comp Coupe,it can be leaned back more,but that would mean cutting into the roof,and I dont want to do that.

This was my street car until I got the "race" bug.

I will drive it on the street again,some day.............

Keith.  Looks fast just sitting there.  Is there a chance you’ll have access to the air/fuel sensors you used last year?  I suspect there will be some serious jetting changes taking place this year with that forced air hitting the carb at 175+ 185+ mph.

Is there a formula at which speed starts to force feed the air depending on cubes of coarse and size of intake tube?

Ted, I like the way you think!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes I have the FAST system to moniter the air/fuel.

There may be,but I dont know it.

I am kinda just "winging" it.

I have studied other cars & asked a lot of questions.

But I will know how it works in about a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And Billy as I have said before one of these times I would like to make it up to the Loring event,I have heard nothing but positive remarks about it.

Trans is a close ratio muncie.

Last year I was running gm t-5,& probably lucky it didnt grenade.

I built a 360 degree shield out of 1/4" plate.

A lot of work,but it passed tech.

Anyway the car looks great and I hope you meet your goals..............JD

I'll pass on a tip from my experience with positive induction from motorcycles. I'm sure you already and factored this in.

Positive induction requires that fuel bowls, fuel pumps and any form of vacuume reference on ignition systems needs to be referenced other wise you will run lean or run out of fuel. The same as blow through supercharging.

 Even though I was only changing carbs on my bike (the motorcycle was already running positive induction) the fuel bowls needed to be conected to the air box, the fuel tank was referenced to the air box and sealed. The ignition system was shared with a turbo fiat which I'm sure presure retards the ignition.

Fuel for though and good luck.

Warren  

The coupe had a best run of 183.742,I round up to 184.

With a bunch of 177-178's.

The areo improvments must of worked,& getting full travel of throttal didnt hurt.

(Ted knows what I mean)

I will post some pics latter.

Conrats again Tim.

Sam good meeting you & good luck with your car.

                                   Keith Cornell

To qualifie for the long course,you need to be going faster than 175 at the 2 & 1/4 mile speed trap.

While I did exceed that,we thought the car was pretty much done at 3 miles (short course)

But there is always next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the site Ricky.  It’s good to see you here.

So are you going to build it for the street,or skip that & go straight to racing??????????????

Ted wrote an article about 2012 Bonneville,featuring my Y powered coupe.

Not only does he build one hell of a motor,he can write pretty good too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Ted.......

Now that LSR is over for the year I may just sit down and write about my adventures this year and send them to Bruce.

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Just got my copy today also, I'll be reading it tonight in bed.  Although I was there and talked with you guys it will be fun to see it happen all over again.   Good job by both you and Ted.

Now that LSR is over for the year I may just sit down and write about my adventures this year and send them to Bruce.

I'll be looking forward to your article.

Congrats on all of your runs this year.

                               Keith

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