Lots of Corvettes and Mustangs at Coffee and Cars this morning at JBA Performance Center in Kearny Mesa. Throw in a DB7, a BMW Z3 coupe, an immaculate first-gen Lightning, a Monster Miata and there was plenty to talk about and look at while munching on donuts and sipping a hot cup of Joe. It may seem crazy to watch the sunrise on a Sunday when you could be sleeping in, but where else can you share stories about running Mach 2 in an F4, spinning twice on the same day running over 200 mph at Bonneville, drag racing a split window against a 413 Dodge, a stuck throttle in a turbo Porsche and much more. Big thanks to all who attend and make Coffee and Cars cool. See you Sunday January 9th!

Just before departing for Bonneville, Kent and Randy brought in their 300-mph streamliner in to JBA for dyno tuning/testing. The streamliner is powered by two turbocharged ZX11 Kawasaki motorcycle engines. With approx 30-psi boost, the streamliner laid down just over 600 hp at the rear wheels. We strapped it down on one side of our Dyno Dynamics chassis dyno and did second gear runs to keep the rear wheel speed within reason. Tom Habrzyk handled the tuning using two laptops running Accel DFI. You can see from the pictures that the streamliner had most of its outer skin off to provide access. To watch a video of one of the dyno pulls, click here: Streamliner on JBA Dyno

The 62nd Annual Bonneville Speed Week was held August 14-20, 2010 on the famous salt flats near Wendover, Utah/Nevada. Approximately 500 racers and thousands of spectators made the annual pilgrimage to the salt. JBA checked out the scene and hung out with fellow members of the San Diego Roadster Club. The event is run by the Southern California Timing Association and its sister organization Bonneville Nationals Inc. Hundreds of volunteers spend countless hours prepping the 3 courses and overseeing the speed trials so the racers and spectators can have a fun and safe event. The weather was spectacular, aka, not too hot and not too wet!!!  There were 381 cars and 178 motorcycles and the result was 158 event records. There was also a car show with “salt rods” in Wendover every night in the Nugget Hotel parking lot. Bonneville Speed Week should be on every gearheads bucket list. See the pictures for more of the story. -bt

Just a quick thank you to the members of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club that put together the Annual Summer Party held at the NHRA Motorsports Museum on June 5th, 2010. I cruised up to Pomona with my son for the drinks, food, music, bench racing, raffle and all around fun. BBQ by Dan catered the event and the food was killer…especially the pork ribs. Lot’s of land speed racing celebrities too. Got our picture taken with a cigar-chomping Ed Iskendarian who was nice as can be. The raffle had great prizes like a framed picture of Thrust SSC breaking the sound barrier at Black Rock signed by the pilot…I mean…the driver Andy Green. The only reason the raffle sucked was that we didn’t win anything! Couldn’t ask for a better location than the NHRA Motorsports Museum (unless they moved the museum to San Diego). If you’ve never been to the museum, make it a priority. For more info, go to www.museum.nhra.com. Thanks again to the “two club” volunteers and club sponsors for a great event. -bt