The Road to World of Speed Part 5: From Bearings to Bones, We are Unstoppable

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Doing my best to help out with one arm in a sling.

This would place a huge burden back on the team as with one arm, I was pretty much useless when it came to wrenching on the car. Without Annie Sam, Sean Rossi, Joe Lu, Josh Wang, Steve Mitchell, John Kuctha, Evan Dunham and the crew at 5523 Motorsports, there would have been no chance of completing the car before Speed Week.

 

Not being able to wrench, also meant not being able to drive so I turned over the keys to MotoIQ Contributing Editor, Annie Sam. If you’re not familiar with Annie she’s raced competitively in NASA and also carries an instructor’s license. In addition, she raced the Silver State Classic Challenge and has experience behind the wheel at the Bonneville Salt Flats at speeds above 150 MPH in my B12 Sentra.

 

Since Annie is considerably smaller in frame, we had to make a pour foam insert so that she could fit snugly into Project 240SX LSR’s seat. To do this, we used a Creafoam bead seat kit, which comes with a vacuum bag full of various size beads and a two part epoxy used to permanently set the shape of the insert.

If you follow MotoIQ on Instagram or Facebook, you’ve probably already seen this rather blurry photo of a dyno chart. Although Nick Hunter of 5523 Motorsports and Clark Steppler of Jim Wolf Technology had aborted the pull mid run (hence the weird power curve) our SR15VET belted out over 620 horsepower at slightly over 50 PSI. Crazy, right? The SR15VET had shown us a glimpse of its true potential and we were ecstatic.

 

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