Bonneville Speed Week

255.936mph

Hey everyone, new video here:Last week (August 14th - August 20th) marked the annualevent that is run by the Southern California Timing Association. This event takes place on the famous Bonneville Salt Flats , just outside Wendover, UT.We think everyone here on Corvette Forum will be interested to know that one of our own,, is continuing hisqualifications, and is doing it successfully, by breaking his own record in his C5.Just as a little history of his Corvette LSR efforts:David previously held the(A - engine size, B - blown, GT - stock bodied). For those unfamiliar with the procedure, you are required to make not one but TWO world record runs that then get averaged to give you your official time. In between the runs, your car is impounded, and you can not work on it whatsoever.Last year, while David was making a record setting pass at 250+ mph, he spun out at full speed and actually left the ground slightly (see photo below). Slightly or not, at 250, I think it is noteworthy. David attributed this incident to the lack of stability at speeds not ever intended by GM engineers on his C5 corvette.David contacted Pfadt some time ago in order to find a solution to the stability problems he was experiencing, and get his suspension dialed in for top speed passes. The Pilgrim C5 features roughly 1300 horsepower from a C5R engine fitted with a tailored STS turbo system. Truly a unique set up that propels him to Land Speed Records.As part of our suspension and engineering support for David's LSR program, Pfadt installed a spherical bearing kit, Pfadt 3-way coilovers (custom for his car), powertrain mounts and a full data collection system. The DAQ was for help in tuning on-site at the salt flats to make gains in height and damping adjustability. Also supplied were custom spring rates based on aero data from wind tunnel testing and coast down testing etc.Pfadt showed up at Bonneville on Friday the 13th to support the LSR effort and were extremely pleased with the results. David's team was on-point and we integrated our efforts easily to give David any extra competitive advantage we could., through the third of three timed miles. Davids exit speed was actually 265.567mph. Pfadt analyzed data and made a couple of chassis tweaks which what we would have hoped to be an even better run the next morning.On backup run, he only managed 237 through the flying mile because the transmission broke. While this is not the best news, it still resulted in a(average of the two runs). Unfortunately David could not continue to run because of the broken gearbox.David plans on coming back for the 2010 World Finals October 6th-9th for another go at 250+ record. Below are a bunch of pics from last weeks event.Let us know what you think!From 09:This year:On the scales and in the pits:Getting ready for first run/first run: