This is another unusual vehicle on the dyno today and tomorrow. This car is called the “Lakester”. It is a twin turbo (88mm), 540 cubic inch monster. This car is scheduled to be on the salt in Bonneville on Tuesday so we are doing some scrambling. The guys building this car (Rob Freyvogel for Dennis Lindberg) have been up for over 48 hours just assembling the car and getting it to our place. Rob had a decent idle tune on it and with only a few loaded tuning pulls we were able to dial in the higher RPM/Load areas quickly (gotta love FastXFI!).
Our only power pull of the evening netted 1695rwhp! We will be starting back up early tomorrow and they leave for the salt Sunday morning. Video’s will be up as soon as my son gets them loaded. Here are some pics of the festivities tonight:
unlike most other racing events weight is your friend in top speed pulls. It keeps you from changing from a car to an airplane. Everytime I have talked to Rob about fabrication on it he said weight doesn’t matter. I did a little work on this car and I am curious on how my radiator box is going to work. Im wondering how long it is going to take until it turns the ice water around the radiator into hot water.
How did you end up getting the lakester rolling on the dyno without a clutch? did the bike idea work?
Lee, the radiator worked great. Loaded with ice we could make about 4 7200rpm pulls with a load before the water was steaming. Water temps showed 160 degrees before we drained the radiator box and reloaded with ice. Today with the final tuning sessions I believe we used about 30 bags of ice between you radiator box and the intercooler.
We will make a vid showing how we got the Lakester rolling. Basically we started the car, then two guys spun the tires by hand as fast as they could and we dropped the car in gear. It was a bit rough but it worked. The great thing about no converter is there is no converter slippage. The bad part is you have to push start. On the salt this isn’t an issue.
The car is VERY heavy, I’m guessing around 4000 lbs based on how it felt when I moved it with the bobcat.
The previous nights pull of 1695 rwhp was at 29psi (overboosted).
Final tune on the car netted 1776.5 rwhp at 23.6psi. The AF and timing is spot on and the car is ready to set a new record.
BTW - this was through the shop mufflers and on street tires
I believe this engine could have easily pushed the 2000rwhp mark but I’m not sure the internals could handle it for the duration at Bonneville. This is a new record on the dyno for HP. However, one of the Lakester’s crew who assisted Friday and Saturday claims his car will exceed the 2000whp mark. That car will be tuned on BigStuff3. That should be another interesting tune…
