What If Build Ideas...for Land Speed Racing

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Maybe instead of worrying about 200 start with lesser speed goals and work your way up
Here's a guy that previously did 130 mph in a different car and now is going for 150 mph in his Mercury Cyclone with just a roll bar.

Bonneville Salt Flats 150 MPH Club in a Street Car - Information on collecting cars - Legendary Collector Cars

Wonder if you could use an old stock car chassis, can pick them up fairly cheap.

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The biggest point of focusing on 200 from the start is to make the chassis correct and compliant from the start. If I do/did things wrong only to be turned away and have to tear it all back apart and start over. I would like to address that now, in the building stage. I know there are licensing runs at 130, 150, 175, then AA for 200 +. Just want to focus more on more HP and such without tearing it all back down. Advantage to Bonneville is weight is a friend. So build it for 250 but drive it 130 is ok. Most other classes the unnecessary added weight would be a penalty.

Apparently a C500 may cause an issue as there wasn't 500 or more made. Could be part of a sub category, but I don't have that answer yet. The frame is 2x4x0.1875, the cage is 1.625x0.120 mild steel. Those both fit what I can do in Gas Altered or maybe sneak into Classic Gas Altered. To run turbos and E85 or alcohol, it adds about 100mph to the record. It turns out you can run in "open time" and not fit into a class, but then there is no chance to get a hat/patch. No records will be broke by this guy, unless it is some obscure one nobody has thought of.