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Denis Manning's BUB 7 streamliner next to it's trailer.
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Denis has been trying to get the absolute motorcycle speed record back for years and has spent millions to do it and finally achieved that this year with this spectacular streamliner.
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This, like the others has a very aerodynamic body.
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It was driven/ridden this year (2006) by Chris Carr to a new FIM motorcycle record of 350.884mph.
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This view shows the small frontal area this car presents to the air. I heard reports of a .08 Cd and I've heard that E-Z-HOOK is around .11 and don't know if these figures are accurate or not, but thought I would pass them on.
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The rear closes in over the chute tubes. The chutes are behind two sections (arrow) at the back of the car that just blow away and onto the course when the chute is released and are then picked up off the course by the crew.
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The motor and transmission are one off special designs just for this application (I understand he might have a couple spares). Denis chose a V-4 configuration probably to keep the width of the car down. You can see the belts to the double overhead cams. Notice that all the rest of the car is also meticulously made. This motor also runs alcohol and uses a single turbo with no intercooler. All three of these liners are engineering marvels. I give the nod to Ack Attack to still have more speed on the table. He is running pretty conservative motors with quite a bit of unexplored HP yet on the table.
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