I wish I could attend this 1/2 mile shootout. Sounds like fun!
I didn't get a chance to enter my machine into NoFly Zone AZ 1/2 mile racing, but I did get to watch a Huracan go 218 MPH. Guess if it was turbo or SC.... 
Turbos always win!
Who already has over 400HP Slingshot to the wheel?
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Nov 17 to 19 Hilton in Orlando
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Display MoreSo @StickerDick will you have the regular Slingshot body still on your SS in January at the Ocala 1/2 mile shootout? If so I will go ahead and purchase my 2 day ticket to the event.
I'm also curious how you are going to have the fastest Slingshot in the world if you change to an aerodynamic body and run a Honda engine. I really don't know how all the rules for those kind of records work. If you can share them here I would love to read up on what all can be changed.
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Regular body in January, my slingshot is still a slingshot since it has a vin number that says it's a slingshot. just like you with your 500 hp motor, or the guys with V8's or even the 4 wheeled slingshots.... as long as the slingshot has a production vin number from polaris , it is a slingshot as far as the LSR community is concerned.
Now..... as far as a stock slingshot, that is not my goal, and it would not be yours either, once you leave the parameters of "stock", you no longer can qualify as a production vehicle AKA Stock.
Depending on the sanctioning body, you can change exhaust, wheels and tires and suspension usually, all safety items that have to be done do not affect stock, but once you do things that actually add significant HP like SC or Turboing, head work, larger motors, aerodynamic mods..... Those things bump you from Street Stock into classes such as modified, normally Aspirated and enhanced aspirated, then there are streamliner classes if you stray to far into aerodynamic changes, and then there are the size of the motor classes, the rules can be quite confusing and hard to follow, the site that I find the most helpful is: rules-and-regulations.html and Home .
I would say that to be able to claim the title of "world's Fastest SlingShot", it will come down to semantics, I believe it will be up to the slingShot community as a whole to decide who is truely the fastest. for example, I hold the record for the fastest BigBlock Production Pickup at 148+ mph in a standing mile, but Brendan Gaughn of NASCAR actually has the fastest speed in a production pickup when he drove a Dodge viper truck back in 2005 on the texas test oval that is 5 miles long to a speed just over 150+mph. So... it's semantics.
so, I will be in Ocala to run my Stock body slingshot to test its basic beginnings before I start adding the aero changes and the special tires and other things I'll have to do before I go to either El Mirage or Bonneville in 2019, but I have set a goal to be the "Fastest Slingshot in the World"..... care to join me?
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I'm sure there are plenty of us that would love to join you if it weren't for one tiny problem. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
If I could find a sponsor I'd be ready in a heart beat!
Guess I'll jes have to be happy tooling round the country roads and wishin I was going LSR! LOL
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If this crankcase vent system we finally seem to have working does indeed work, then I'll go to the "flex-fuel" program on my Haltech, and I'll be over 400rwhp. I plan on that by the time we get to Ocala "bigboy"! I figure I'm going to have to do a rebuild and freshen up on the motor before the Smokies anyway, so I will be going for Broke! Literally!
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