August 19, 2010
The Wind Blew and the Shit Flew

   The fish had a tough start as the engine melted down on the first pass. The Rad Rides team removed the engine and rebuilt it in the race trailer. Two new pistons and two new heads were required to complete the repairs.
    An extra water line was added from the block to the center of the cylinder head on each side to aide in cooling the heads down. New procedures were put in place when servicing the pressurized cooling system. A change from the fuel program to gasoline was chosen to start a shake down on the Blow Fishes engine management.
    Two passes were completed on the 17th and were run successfully reaching a speed of 250 mph with great data results. With limited boost pressure and shift points we set a new record speed in B/BGCC by the 4 mile mark at 272mph, the old record was 249. This put the Fish in impound where it will remain until early morning on the 19th to attempt to back the record up.
    The backup run will be completed on the same engine program,        
 with only 11 pounds of boost. The driver will be allowed to use full throttle in all gears as opposed to maintaining 7000rpm in 5th gear.
   This run will also be stopped at the 4 instead of running to the 5 mile mark.
    Results of the back run are a new B/BGCC record of 277mph and a clean bill of health for the systems and engine in the Blowfish. We are changing the software program, adding boost and changing the shift points from 7500 to 8000. The Fish will be run the complete 5 mile course.
  There will be a class change back to B/BFCC that has a record of 294mph.

The Pits:
Saturday Aug. 14th, 2010

On Sat. Aug. 14th BLOWFish made its first run reaching 270 mph, when smoke filled the car.  Some adjustments have been made and they are hoping to make another run on Tues. Aug. 17th

The Pits:
Friday Aug. 13th, 2010

Blow Fish Passed tech and now is poised for its first time back in the water since last years record run of 292 in C/BFCC.

This years record, in the BLOWFishes way, stands at 294 in B/BFCC. On our last run in 2009 we reached a speed of 307 at the 3 mile mark.

BLOWFish is slated to make its first run on Sat. Aug. 14th, opening day at Speed Week 2010.