Maggie’s The Suburbanator. . .

[Threadcutter308]

Made some passes last night with the racin' car. We pulled 20 degrees of timing out of the motor off the hit to try and soften the launch. (This is a sort of crap shoot as radial tires often respond better to be smacked so that the sidewall stays "stuck", but we tried it anyway as the other pathway didn't work for shit) Timing then was ramped back in over a 1.2-second interval. The 60' sucked ass with a 1.7. (We've been 1.23 before) At 1.1 seconds indicated wheel speed was right at 66mph. Over the next 3/10 of a second, it jumped to almost 170mph. (PARTEH, lol)

Needless to say, Eric was peddling the snot out of it after that. The shock sensor logs resembled something from the San Andres Fault.

Lesson:

The motor makes some onion. Now we just gotta figure out how to make it stick on no-prep tracks. Not the easiest thing to do with an IRS rear end, but it makes it fun regardless.

Good times.

Serious question;

Do you have another company that you make Race Parts and sell them ? I don't know much about it other than you're doing some cool shit. I'd have to imagine that there would be a demand for what you are doing.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Cool story Bro.

Really though.
Gonna make a trip to have some fun with Average Guy and we may need to organize a SD side trip when you are running that thing.

Pics and stories are cool.

Seeing stuff in real life is WAY cooler!!

I'd recommend the first couple of weeks in August.
The roads are clear, traffic is light, even for Sturgis. And, you can get a seat at any restaurant without a wait.
No-one, and I mean nobody has anything to do during that time...

BTW, it's nice to see that you came up for some air...

 

[powdahound76]

@Mike Casselton

One of my close friends is some top dog for northern hills EMS.
I been hearing his stories for 20 yrs plus.

I like visiting there in Sept or early OCT.

Have also climbed ice in Spearfish Canyon in Jan too, when I was younger.

 

[Average guy]

I'd recommend the first couple of weeks in August.
The roads are clear, traffic is light, even for Sturgis. And, you can get a seat at any restaurant without a wait.
No-one, and I mean nobody has anything to do during that time...

BTW, it's nice to see that you came up for some air...

Hard pass on the first couple weeks of August. Too many idiots

 

[LRI]

Serious question;

Do you have another company that you make Race Parts and sell them ? I don't know much about it other than you're doing some cool shit. I'd have to imagine that there would be a demand for what you are doing

Snoop around the bottom R/H corner of the site home page. I dabble but were a gun company at heart.

Gunsmithing Services

www.longriflesinc.com

 

[Mike Casselton]

@Mike Casselton

One of my close friends is some top dog for northern hills EMS.
I been hearing his stories for 20 yrs plus.

I like visiting there in Sept or early OCT.

Have also climbed ice in Spearfish Canyon in Jan too, when I was younger.

That would be Bridle Veil Falls.
Somewhere, I have a pic of Rebecca in front of it from December 2014.
I think it might have been about 1°f that day.
A bit brisk.
The next day was New Year's and Chad was working. He fixed up an old Shilen DGA for me while I waited.

I loved living in that area and would go back in a heartbeat if it was in the cards.

 

[Mike Casselton]

Hard pass on the first couple weeks of August. Too many idiots

Ain't that the truth

 

[Average guy]

Ain't that the truth

I lived in Newell, 25 miles north of sturgis, for 13 years. Yeah the rally can kiss my ass

 

[Mike Casselton]

I liked Newell.
I'd kill to live in Buffalo too.
Making monthly trips for groceries would be just fine with me.

 

[LRI]

I lived in Newell, 25 miles north of sturgis, for 13 years. Yeah the rally can kiss my ass

Hwy 79 in August does test one's patience for sure, lol.

I moved here in 2003. Thankfully the rally really doesn't impact me all that much. I avoid traffic in the am by going in early and it's maybe an extra 5-10m to get home if I sneak around using the back roads.

Anymore, the demographic has changed quite a bit. You almost see more RV campers than bikes these days.


We still get our share of Murder Hornets though. We had a nest of em next door in the neighbor's yard for a week in 2020.

Damn things... lol

 

[Jgunner]

Here's a break from the entertainment.

Some more pics I found of random stuff made for the drag car. Long winters in western S. Dakota.... lol.

Blower drive pulley. This is the "small one". I bumped it up considerably this year. Were knocking on 40lbs of "sneeze" now.

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The new 65T version I did a couple months ago.

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Head unit and belt guard Eric and I made last summer.

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-12AN size fuel rails. I bought the raw extrusions and had some fun with em right after buying our new VF3SS. The belt driven fuel pump that feeds these things is just as absurd. 15gpm@100psi. We consume roughly 3.5 gallons of methanol per burnout/8th-mile pass.

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700lb/hr injectors. We run these up top to keep the rotors wet. I mix a quart of Klotz oil in a drum of fuel. Keeps the valves and rings happy and it adds a smidge of hydrocarbon to the fuel so that plug reading doesn't require a Oujia board. The manifold has ID2600 injectors.


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The IRS setup. Travel sensors from LowDollar Motorsports. I ended up making the reluctor wheel we use for the traction control on the drive shaft. Everyone I found is super narrow and invites "noise" in the hall effect sensor that picks up the signal. Running it fatter seems to clean it up. We see a nice linear track on the data logs.

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Carbon drive shaft. Lets see Proof make one of these, lol.

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Something I've been tinkering with. Billet pistons... Not there yet, but it's close.

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Buncha flat plate makin mofo! Lmfao. Shit is gorgeous.

 

[cas6969]

I can't get past the antique Motorola. If the rest of it is there, he could probably shave 40lbs by getting rid of it.

 

[Greasly]

If it's not a crate engine, certainly you'd know this.
What is the cam specs (from the card will do) what intake centerline do you have it dialed to and what is the actual overlap at that position ?

Certainly any engine builder would know this......unless it's a crate engine.

Take enough boost and airflow and couple it to a limited tire. Add the ability to control fuel, ignition timing and monitor wheel spin. The family pet could probably pick a cam from a Jeg's catalog and the beast is gonna boogie. Valve timing? Who cares?

 

[Average guy]

Hwy 79 in August does test one's patience for sure, lol.

I moved here in 2003. Thankfully the rally really doesn't impact me all that much. I avoid traffic in the am by going in early and it's maybe an extra 5-10m to get home if I sneak around using the back roads.

Anymore, the demographic has changed quite a bit. You almost see more RV campers than bikes these days.


We still get our share of Murder Hornets though. We had a nest of em next door in the neighbor's yard for a week in 2020.

Damn things... lol

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I noticed as the years went on the traffic changed. We used to shut down hauling on 212 west of Belle Fourche for a couple days in the early/mid 2000’s. By 2008 there was no reason to.