The 71-year-old Poteet apparently has quite the good ear.īut the crew at Bonneville was also reminded this year just how dangerous racing can be. Yow! Even better, the tach stopped working on the final run and Poteet had to shift by sound. Poteet had recorded 400-mph runs on the salt over many years but it was this year that the team dialed it all together and set the 470-mph average, with an exit speed out the top end of the five-mile timed section of the course of 481 mph. The record runs were made with only 20 psi.Advertisement – Continue Reading Below It makes 3,155 hp and 2,017 lb ft of torque, Thacker wrote. The car's Ken Duttweiler single V8 runs on methanol and is fed by two turbos capable of adding 35 pounds of boost. AA means the displacement of the V8 is over 501 cubic inches and BFS means Blown Fuel Streamliner.

It was built to compete in SCTA's AA/BFS class. It was that version of the car which Poteet drove and liked so much that he decided to build something similar and really go racing.

Main then swapped in a Chevy Eco Tec four and renamed the rig EcoFire. Flat Fire was tuned to the nines to make over 700 hp, according to hot rod sage Tony Thacker, writing on. Poteet has been racing at Bonneville since 2006, when he was enlisted by long-time B-ville veteran Ron Main to race Main's flathead Ford-powered Flat Fire, as the car was originally named. Those runs broke the record set in 2018 by Danny Thompson in Challenger II, who had himself broken Poteet's earlier records. The good news: veteran Bonneville racer George Poteet set a new record for fastest piston-powered, wheel-driven land speed racing in his single-engine BFS (blown fuel streamliner) Speed Demon with a two-way average speed up and down the salt of 470 mph. There was good news and bad news at the 72 ndannual SCTA Bonneville Speed Week this year.

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