New vegetable oil powered vehicle landspeed record

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Hello all. We are a student group from Boise State University call Greenspeed. We just got back from the El Mirage Dry Lakebed in California with a record under out belt. Our vehicle is a 1998 Chevy S-10 with a 1993 block/head 5.9L Cummins. Part of our purpose is to raise awareness about alternative fuels, part is to help the performance diesel industry grow. We like sharing information. As long as it isn't proprietary information from/about our sponsors, we will be happy to answer any questions about the project and what we have learned so far.

One of the students has built an extensive telemetry system monitoring all aspects of the engine. If there are any questions about how things respond, or if there is anything you've been wondering about as far as data collection, we will do our best to get your questions answered.

If interested, please follow us on Incompatible Browser | Facebook to keep up to date on happenings with the project.

There are many people and companies to thank in relation to this project, but we are not sure how/if the forum would like to deal with that. Looked for a mod for this sub forum and couldn't find one. Is there anyone in particular to talk with?

Attached is a picture from our first trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats in August. We only had time for two runs at that event because we arrived with an unfinished truck and were having parts shipped to the flats so we could get the build done (it had started with zero dollars and a stock S-10 a mere two and a half months earlier...). We ended up making it to the start line 50 minutes before the week long event ended. Made two successful passes and got our rookie run, and the first of many licensing runs out of the way.

More to come if y'all are interested.

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so how much more air drag is there from 110 to 150 miles an hour because my 96 3500 has no problem going a 110 on my own biodiesel
 
Congrats! Are you running svo or bio? Definitely interested in hearing about the details of your build.
 
Must... resist... urge... to talk football! J/K! :D


Cool project! :rockwoot:

Y'all should submit it to Diesel Power Magazine or something. Could probably get at least a small feature or something for some more exposure.

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oldestof11: thanks, it was fun!

keifferscummins: what is the drag coefficient for your truck?

SHughes: of course! might cost ya a dollar or two though...

Jesse: Thank you!! It was a huge amount of work in a very short period of time!

Snake: svo is our game for now. We will definitely be running bio next year though, in addition to svo. Because why not, right?

imelmo: you won't get very far on that topic with us :) ...we are trying to show that Boise State is more than a hockey team...but thanks, we like the project a lot! It has been featured very shortly in DieselWorld in the October issue, and will hopefully be in there again. We have not had any luck getting in touch with Diesel Power...
 
Here is the 155 run, btw:

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Got to meet you guys on the salt at speedweek,I was one of the orange hats tech'ing your truck.
From what I saw you have a well built well engineered truck,lets see that thing in impound next year.
-Tim



Greenspeed said:
Hello all. We are a student group from Boise State University call Greenspeed. We just got back from the El Mirage Dry Lakebed in California with a record under out belt. Our vehicle is a 1998 Chevy S-10 with a 1993 block/head 5.9L Cummins. Part of our purpose is to raise awareness about alternative fuels, part is to help the performance diesel industry grow. We like sharing information. As long as it isn't proprietary information from/about our sponsors, we will be happy to answer any questions about the project and what we have learned so far.

One of the students has built an extensive telemetry system monitoring all aspects of the engine. If there are any questions about how things respond, or if there is anything you've been wondering about as far as data collection, we will do our best to get your questions answered.

If interested, please follow us on Incompatible Browser | Facebook to keep up to date on happenings with the project.

There are many people and companies to thank in relation to this project, but we are not sure how/if the forum would like to deal with that. Looked for a mod for this sub forum and couldn't find one. Is there anyone in particular to talk with?

Attached is a picture from our first trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats in August. We only had time for two runs at that event because we arrived with an unfinished truck and were having parts shipped to the flats so we could get the build done (it had started with zero dollars and a stock S-10 a mere two and a half months earlier...). We ended up making it to the start line 50 minutes before the week long event ended. Made two successful passes and got our rookie run, and the first of many licensing runs out of the way.

More to come if y'all are interested.

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very cool. congrats.. and that was a lot of work in a very short time..
any specs on the drivetrain would be cool.. turbo(s), cam, pump, injectors, head work, trans, rear end.. etc..
good work
 
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very cool. congrats.. and that was a lot of work in a very short time..
any specs on the drivetrain would be cool.. turbo(s), cam, pump, injectors, head work, trans, rear end.. etc..
good work
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Thanks! It was a HUGE undertaking and a lot of work. We were pretty happy to just have a running truck, let alone be able to pull off the record this year!

Be happy to talk about all of that. I contacted one of the admins, just waiting to hear back. Just don't want to give anyone any headaches as far as stepping on toes or anything.
 
Unless you are selling a product, which I don't believe you are, in telling us what u got done to it.
 
yeah, even if you have a ton of sponsors for the truck, and tell what their products are, you really arent selling them for a profit.
just like in peoples sigs you see lots of garmon, industrial, sdx, E.D. etc... its justa product. not a YOU NEED TO BUY THIS blahblahblah.

Thats awesome yall are workin for it. i hope you can stack on another 50 mph or better next time on the salt/lakebed.
 
Alrighty then, I'll start with the engine and see how that goes:

1st gen block, head, and crank, no details were to be had on it other than having a broken cam when we received it. It went to Northwest Motor Machine in Caldwell, ID to get checked. Once it was decided it was usable, the part search began while they started the block work and balancing act. The head was shipped to C-Tech Performance in Wyoming, Michigan to get their CNC treatment. I made the mistake of cutting the intake off before thinking about it too much. Turned out to not be a good idea on our timeline.

Carrillo rods have put up with some serious abuse (will get to that later) and not even flinched. VERY happy with those chunks of metal. Mahle/Jet-Hot coated marine style pistons (1st build was just below 14:1, 2nd build ~15:1). Clevite bearings throughout (including cam bushing the whole way through). Colt 181/210 billet cam was put in after the first cam we got led to valve contact during assembly (the night before we were supposed to leave!!). Fluidampr balancer of course. Some pretty intense custom valves from Ferrea Valve in Florida. A1 Technologies fasteners all around, awesome folks to deal with too! Hamilton valve springs and retainers. ATS 3-piece manifold on the exhaust side. Some very sexy Harland Sharp roller rockers with experimental geometry. HD pushrods from Pure Diesel Power. Girdled block of course. An adjustable timing gear and billet housing cover from JD's Diesel Performance. We also have a pretty sweet billet aluminum oil filter that has a reusable stainless steel filter element from AIAS Green Products.
All of this was put together by Big Twin Diesel in Meridian, ID. He helped us way more than he should have, and this project definitely wouldn't have happened without his tremendous knowledge and help.

The turbos are a couple ceramic ball bearing types from Turbonetics. The top turbo is a 64mm, the bottom a 106mm. A Newgen wastegate that is being controlled by a electropneumatic regulator and very expensive, very large onboard computer. The turbos are held together with piping (from intake all the way to exhaust "tip"), fittings, and some BADA** clamps (will have to post a vid at some point) from Vibrant Performance out of Canada. These guys are pretty well known in the ricer world, but are interested in branching out. Very high quality components.

All that, and all the air is going through the old as hell 7.3 intercooler from MY truck. Didn't fit in the spot though, so had to cut the top two and bottom two cores off and put some caps on. Really quite surprised the ol' beast held together. That is one of the areas that need some massive attention. We are hoping to work with some air to liquids next year.

The pump is a 215 pump with 13mm p/b's and "competition" dv's. 4kGSK from Brown's Diesel. The pump was rebuilt and tuned at Mastertech Diesel Injection here in Boise. Great work. The injectors are some serious shower heads from Dynomite, "competition" all the way: 73 l/m... A nice big Titanium Series FASS is getting the fuel to the tank.

K, I gotta get going. I will answer any questions about this part and move on to other systems in the truck next!

Dave
 
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