speed demon racing land speed car

TURBINATOR II, with driver Dave Spangler, set the all time FASTEST mile speed, 463.038 mph FASTEST quarter speed, 369.143 mph, and FASEST exit speed 470.605 mph in … Bonneville salt flats, here we come! The Speed Demon is the world’s fastest piston-powered land speed vehicle. 82 likes. Speed Demon Racing, New Port Richey, Florida. The Speed Demon streamliner makes a 426 mph pass at Bonneville this week. Speed Demon smashes land speed record. The all new Speed Demon seen here has run 442-mph on a poor track and is expected to be faster at the next Speed Week. The engine is specifically built to run in the Main & Poteet Speed Demon car that claimed fame as the first flathead-powered car to break 300 mph. George Poteet and Ron Main’s Speed Demon has established a new land speed record for a piston engined wheel driven car. Poteet and Main Speed Demon Tech Specs. The Crazy Demons of Land-Speed Racing and Their Record-Breaking Rides. Next came a Duttweiler-built Mopar four-banger Midget engine, followed by a turbocharged Duttweiler-built 2.2L GM Ecotec four-cylinder that set an SCCA record at 343.494 mph in 2008, running 390 mph out the back door. His car, Speed Demon, built by Ron Main, is powered by a 299 cu in (4,900 cc) aluminum block 'Hellfire' V8, built by Kenny Duttweiler. This extraordinary video of an August land speed record attempt by George Poteet and Ron Main’s Speed Demon race car shows the vehicle reaching 462 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The original Speed Demon has a one-way pass at Bonneville with a 458-mph average for the mile and a 462 mph exit speed. The original Speed Demon quickly established itself as the fastest car at Bonneville and the only car that consistently demonstrated the potential to advance the wheel-driven land speed record. Speed Demon: 439 MPH Small Block Land Speed Record The Poteet and Main streamliner with George Poteet at the wheel and the world's most powerful small block Chevy driving the wheels set new FIA International speed records in Category A, Group 1, Class 10. On the eve of a new attempt to break the world land-speed record—and crack 1,000 mph—we look in the rearview. The Speed Demon team started the meet chasing the Challenger II team and driver Danny Thompson, who put together an astonishing 435 mph pass on Saturday, Aug. 19. 462 MPH in the Speed Demon Land Speed Race Car. Speed Freaks Panel Discussion Ron Main, George Poteet and Kenny Duttweiller will be panelists at this one-of-a-kind event on Feb. 19. During Bonneville Speed Week the car hit 451.933 mph with Poteet at the wheel, setting a new combined record of 437.183 mph smashing the old record by 47.183 mph. Speed Lessons From the World’s Fastest Car. Engine and turbocharging guru Kenny Duttweiler now has the Gen-1 small block Chevy churning out more than 2300 horsepower. Their effort was thwarted by a number of parts failures. Engine and turbocharging guru Kenny Duttweiler now has the Gen-1 small block Chevy churning out more than 2300 horsepower.