Joe Gearin
Associate Publisher
11/24/14 10:26 a.m.
Here's a great short video of Jerry Hoffman's first run over 200mph in their land speed Nissan 240sx. It's great to see his reaction when he finds out he's broken the "double ton"!
More videos of this project can be found on their YouTube channel. Search for DIYAutotune Land Speed and a few should pop up.
enjoy!
http://www.diyautotune.com/cars/project/diyautotune_s13_240sx_racing_3_ohio_mile.htm
Thanks for sharing Joe-- what a fun run that was. And the end when Joe Timney let's me know I made 200mph (which I didn't know yet, my dash gauge read 196peak as far as I knew) was awesome. I knew I had gone fast, but was a little down when I didn't think I had quite made 200. Then saw Joe bowing to me as I rounded to the return road which puzzled me... then he came up to the car when I got out.
We went back in September and got 7 more records in Ohio and pretty much own the page in the rulebook for BGC, and have the F/BGALT record too now, which is my current fastest record at 205.38mph. There's another video out on our Youtube channel of that as well.
Joe Gearin
Associate Publisher
11/25/14 11:06 a.m.
Thanks for posting Jerry! Hitting the 200mph mark has been a goal for a lot of us--- it's pretty cool to see the video of you doing it for the first time! Congratulations again---- pretty impressive feat!