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Tuesday 8-14-12 – Our last day on the salt this year with a few final pics of Lee’s car and the ‘Spirit of Orangevale’. For more pics from the rest of our trip, and info on the record setting cars we supported this year CLICK HERE!

Monday 8-13-12 – Lot’s of pics from the starting line and staging lanes.

Sunday 8-12-12, Black Opel Racing qualifies for a record and sits in impound waiting to back it up (and there are a ton of other pics too) For more pics from the rest of our trip, and info on the record setting cars we supported this year CLICK HERE!

These are the pics we took Saturday 8-11-12, the first official day of SpeedWeek 2012

These are the pics we took Friday 8-10-12, mostly in the hotel parking lot For more pics from the rest of our trip, and info on the record setting cars we supported this year CLICK HERE!

Speed Week 2012 at Bonneville Speedway

Posted on September 12, 2012

SpeedWeek 2012 was amazing this year, with MegaSquirt EFI helping competitors getting two new records! (That we know of.)  One of which, to the best of my knowledge, also takes the record for the fastest MegaSquirt EFI powered car in the WORLD. Lee Sicilio’s 1969 Dodge Daytona Charger takes the A/BGALT Record with an average…

Speed Week 2008 at Bonneville Speedway

Posted on September 15, 2008

Turns out this was the year for Gary to break the record.  Twice.  In car video of the record run is below. Monday Monday morning Gary pulled a 236mph ‘down run’ to qualify for the record, motor was running great, we put the car in impound until Tuesday morning when we’d come back to try…

Speed Week 2007 at Bonneville Speedway

Posted on September 20, 2007

Final results for the Stude’ this year:  211mph with 2 cylinders acting up– valvetrain issues. The back two cylinders on the drivers side of the motor had been suspect all week, burning significantly richer than the rest as the story was told by reading the plugs.  Boost (with the wastegates wide open) last year was…

Speed Week 2006 at Bonneville Speedway

Posted on October 25, 2006

Obviously Speed Week was a blast!  The sun was brutal, as were the vehicles that showed up there to tear up the salt.  Scott Clark (DieselGeek), Mike Higginson and I met up out there along with Gary and Sandy Hart and their mean 53′ Studebaker, and their buddies Mike and Richard Collison who were driving…