SPEED HERO Blog — Better Than Brock

It's been quiet for a bit now with little to post. Waiting, lots of waiting, sorting out little small, fiddly bits of stuff. Paper work, waiting, more paperwork, waiting. Although much of it's not essential to the trip, the more I sort out before hand the better. I've become exceedingly nervous about the whole ordeal. Insane waves of emotion, one moment I'm capped with rage and anger towards myself for starting such an un-achievable project, and the next I'm compelled with impatience for it to begin. I do want it to start soon, and each day I grow closer to...

Seriously though. I need to get up to 270km/h in a car made from scrap metal and pizza crust. I will die in a fiery wreck in the middle of the night.   Also Darrell Waltrip is a wuss.

I will have no sag. No droop for this trip. The support has been beyond what I expected. Now on day #3 of the raffle and we've clicked past the 106 ticket mark of out 300 ticket goal. Seriously, that's amazing! I never knew raffling a car off, especially one such as this would bring so much love and cheer. I need to thank everyone, and to be honest a feeling hit me yesterday. I want them all to have Lemonade. A majority of the raffle supporters have been good friends. Some which I haven't heard from in a while,...

Seriously, I've lost my entire mind. Here's the deal. Starting now, right now, this moment, now then, the one just past when you read that, the Raffle is Active! $5 a ticket gets you into the drawing. EMT is fine (DiscoQuinn@gmail.com), cash in person is fine too. Draw date is January 23rd. A Wednesday! Where one lucky winner will be selected! Please, share this with your friends.  Win a 'racing' car!

Brocks technology: Late 70's Australia wasn't quite a technological marvel. In a previous post we mumbled about his gear ratios. 4th seems to provide for him 270km/h at 6000rpm. Either his 4th gear was excessively long, or the rear end ratio is long. The latter is the more likely of the scenarios. His 308 V8 would've needed quite a clean strong, and long power band from low RPM's through to the high ones in order to run such long gears for the first scenario mentioned. The second is...