240 MPH "Stupidbaker" salt flat racer this week on PowerNation

[pbrown]

Got an email from Powerblock TV today about this:

This weekend Courtney features a gorgeous salt flat racer called "Stupidbaker". Builder Alan Johnson will join the PowerNation to talk about how they built it using CAD drawings before one screw was ever turned. It's a 1953 Studebaker that's been engineered to go fast!



Owners Paul and Betty Gilliam handed the build over to Johnson's Hot Rod shop in Gadsden, AL. Once the car was designed aerodynamically first, then they fitted and placed everything underneath the shell for speed. It features a ton of ARP fasteners that not only hold up to the high speed, but the salty conditions of the salt flats of Bonneville too. It has a Keith Dorton designed 368 SB-2 that makes 945 horsepower at 9000 RPM's.

In practice they've already clocked 228 MPH with an exit speed of 240 MPH; and Keith is still taking it easy on the engine, so there is a lot more speed to come! The goal is to be the fastest naturally aspirated car to run over 300 MPH. Find out where the name "Stupidbaker" came from this week on PowerNation.

http://www.powerblocktv.com/emailers/2014/apr_22/index.html

[Mike Van Veghten]

Interesting.

There's another "Stupidbaker" only it's a 50/51, gunmetal grey. I saw it with 33" tall drag slicks and drag front tires. I was also told by someone in Studeland that it was built for the salt...it coulda been...!? Don't know, never saw the owner.

Mike

[Deaf Mute]

Saw this car on a show about the SEMA meet, it was one of the finalists.... I SURE HOPE THE OWNERS BRING IT TO DOVER!!!

[Deaf Mute]

THey don't mention this car on the episode listings,,,,, I wonder what time and where we can find it?

[rodnutrandy]

On Direct Tv , I catch it on Sunday morning on Spike , Have all shows set to tape , They follow each other at about 9am.

[SScopelli]

More interesting is the shop that built it...

http://johnsonshotrodshop.com/news/recent-news/

[Chris Pile]

Here's what it used to look like a few seasons ago...

http://graphics10.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/08/automobiles/10speed600.jpg

[63t-cab]

Now if only We could see a picture of this Red one sitting next too a stock 53 C .

More interesting is the shop that built it...

http://johnsonshotrodshop.com/news/recent-news/

[Warren Webb]

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[Xcalibur]

Yeah, well.... as I say, "Anyone can buy new hi-po parts and probably go fast--if persistent; but, can they do 225mph with a 299c.i. Studebaker V/8? (It takes real idiots to run a decades-orphaned antique on the Salt.)"

[DEEPNHOCK]

We've been following this project over at Sonny's Racing Studebakers website/forum for over a year now....

http://www.racingstudebakers.com/foo/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2790

[DEEPNHOCK]

Yeah, well.... as I say, "Anyone can buy new hi-po parts and probably go fast--if persistent; but, can they do 225mph with a 299c.i. Studebaker V/8? (It takes real idiots to run a decades-orphaned antique on the Salt.)"

Them's fightin' words!
I know one guy that's trying to do just that...
David Parris

http://www.racingstudebakers.com/foo/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2731

[Commander Eddie]

And don't forget the Dutch Treat team with their 200+ mph Lark project.

http://racingstudebakers.com/foo/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2773

[Xcalibur]

DEEPNHOCK... which part of my post is "fightin' words?" BOTH have already been done, the former many, many times, the latter once--talk with Mr. J. Lange of Effingham, IL (Bonneville, August 2009) about it. ...and, I stand fully behind my parenthetical phrase since I have been intimately involved in doing so for over a quarter century.

[DEEPNHOCK]

No offense taken!
Any noble effort tends to be scorned by the masses...
I was talking in a positive sense!

DEEPNHOCK... which part of my post is "fightin' words?" BOTH have already been done,

the former many, many times, the latter once--talk with Mr. J. Lange of Effingham, IL (Bonneville, August 2009) about it. ...and, I stand fully behind my parenthetical phrase since I have been intimately involved in doing so for over a quarter century.