Showing posts with label Michael Goni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Goni. Show all posts
Michael Goni
This weekend, weather contingent, will be the first race for Top Street Bike at Englishtown Raceway Park in NJ. Our GSXR1000 is ready to shake down Friday night and if all goes well Sunday is race day.
Michael Goni
Hey Jeff,
Just checking in. I have been a real bastard about updating you
via email. I try and blast you guys as much as possible via
Facebook and Instagram.
Just finished the Land speed racing season up a month ago or so
and have a few extra records to add to our belt. The real exciting
part is that we are starting to rebuild/build an all new
turbo/nitrous motor to replace the one I blew to smithereens a
couple years ago. Getting a bigger turbo, a better engineered
exhaust system and improved fueling system. We should, if all goes
well, better our top speed of 162.55 mph on the BSA (out of a 650
pushrod twin!).
For some cross training and just plain fun I built a modern drag
bike over this summer out of a 2006 GSXR1000 to compete in next
year's Top Street Bike Shootout hosted at Englishtown Raceway Park
in New Jersey. I have a couple test and tune nights under my belt
last month and decided last minute to enter the last TSB race of the
year this past Friday night. I managed to be the surprise of the
night and went rounds and ended up in the finals. I lost the finals
by qoing 0.025 of a second faster then my dial in time and got
runner up. Pretty stoked on next years race prospects. I have
enclosed a burnout photo from the final round of racing. Please
excuse the lack of FTWCO stickers on the bike I was not expecting to
go out and race till last minute and the bike is still being developed.
Michael Goni - Standard Cycle Company
Michael Goni
Set three records and broke one.
Broken record is, M/PG-650/4 at 123.408 in the 1.5 mile track.
(previous record was 121)
Set records are, M/PG-650/4 at 122.164 in the 1 mile track
MPS/PF-650/4 at 149.140 in the 1 mile track
MPS/PF-650/4 at 155.653 in the 1.5 mile track
Michael Goni
Our race weekend started with the usual tuning for
the ambient temperature deal, no matter how much tuning you do at home
on the dyno things are always different at the track. We are running a
new test motor on the Hornet, normally aspirated, that will find its way
into the turbo/nitrous bike's chassis with a healthy does of nitrous
only. With the new motor we where having issues breaking into the
120's. Taking into account the motor is tuned for nitrous use and a
slight headwind on the naked bike we weren't surprised with the slower
speeds so we tuned the carbs in for the best afr and hoped we would get
some stale air or a tailwind to help it push through in top gear. On
Saturday evening we where blessed with a slight tail/quarter wind and
with a jetting change I was able to rip a 123.05 mph run besting our
previous 113.06 record for the M/PF-650 class.
On the MPS/PBF 650 bike we had some issues with the
nitrous system at first, with the heat from the weekend it was difficult
to keep the bottle pressure stable. We had cool wet rags and shade to
keep the bottle from going over 1000psi but after waiting in the staging
area with leathers on and the rags off the bottle pressure got high
enough where the solenoid would not open so I was never able to get the
juice going. After a second run to test the system out again we where
out of nitrous for the day and set off to our race home at the motel to
service the nitrous bottles and get our game plan together. Next day we
went out with a fresh bottle and were able to keep the pressure right
and blasted off of 158.24 mph run in the mile and a slightly slower
speed of 157.87 at the mile and a half which I attributed to a possible
boost fluctuation or nitrous trail off, that run was still good enough
to bump our previous record in that class from the 157.31 mph I set a
couple years ago. During the whole weekend we were running between
20-25 psi of boost which is a little lower then our 30 psi norm so we
turned the boost up some on our mechanical boost controller and
installed a fresh bottle and that's when things got very interesting
very quickly.
Instead of activating the nitrous in second gear I
waited till I just got into third since the bike was accelerating harder
then ever causing me to fly through second gear even with the super
tall gearing, once I sprayed the bike it was a freaking rocket ship. In
an instant I was at 7300 rpm in third, then shifted into high gear,
with the amount of inertia the flywheels had from spinning up to top rpm
so quickly the engine didn't drop as much rpm as normal going into
forth so when the power came back on it still was ripping me back into
the seat in the 150 mph area. I took a split second to confirm I was in
top gear and let her rip as I saw the tach approaching 7200 rpm in top
gear which is good for 170mph at around the 3/4 mile marker and thats
where the fun ended... The bike lost compression at just over 7200 rpm
and I completely oiled the whole right side of my body down and I
coasted through the mile trap at 150 mph with my head out of the
windscreen trying to inspect the bike as much as you can while still
riding.
If only the bike would have held together a quarter
of a mile longer I would be in LSR glory, reaching my quiet goal of
setting a record at 170mph on that ancient bicycle-like BSA I love so
much.
Sunday's race day started with a gorgeous day and
ended with the LSR community loosing a great guy and a personal friend.
Bill Warner crashed his motorcycle at close to 300 mph chasing a dream,
he will always be looked up to and I will miss our technical
discussions.
Michael Goni
We ran the
Black turbo nitrous BSA in the MPS/PBF-750 class for the first time at
Wilmington where the standing record was 122 mph. First run out of the
trailer on Saturday managed a really smooth and perfect 159mph run with a
pretty strong head/quartering wind (13-20mph). Not quite our 650
record speed at 162.5 but I was really happy considering the wind we
were fighting.
Up
next I ran the orange hornet in the M/PG-650 class that had a standing
record of 115 mph. This bike we are on our "millionth" engine
configuration so it was untested besides some dyno work and it was
making some real good power, more then we ever have, internal gear
ratios where changed with a modified trans along with final gearing.
First run in the same head/quartering wind as the black BSA the bike
started off real strong, even carried a power wheelie with our tall ass
gearing in second gear and passed the half mile at 114 mph, when I
shifted into high gear it was really hauling until to jumped out of gear
and went back into third on its own, I fought with the shifter to keep
it in gear but by then we lost all of our momentum that couldn't be
regained and the bike passed the one mile trap at 107mph.
On
our second and final runs for the day the wind really picked up and
started coming straight down the track at around 20 mph, with that wind
the chances of us picking up speed from our previous 159 run with the
black bike was going to be next to impossible so we used the run to do a
real world test on some new surface fire plugs. On our run just after
the half mile mark the bike developed a severe misfire so I backed off
the nitrous and coasted through the traps around 137 mph. Lesson
learned, surface fire spark plugs will need some more testing before we
can try again.
With
the wind still coming straight down the track I jumped onto the orange
bike and really gave it hell, hit all shift points and when I reached
top gear I held the shifter down with my foot while making myself as
small as possible on the bike but we just didnt have the horsepower to
break through the 20+ mph head wind and passed the traps at 112 mph.
Unfortunately
the rainy and windy weather on Sunday did not allow us to run again so
we never got to run the hornet or the black bike again. We will be
praying to the weather gods for good conditions on our 1.5
mile assault at Loring, Maine in July.
Michael Goni
Here is a link to the first start up and heat cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcwtcqI3oM
And I also attached a couple photos.
Thanks FTWCO!!!
Michael Goni
Michael Goñi
Michael Goni
Just wanted to share with you my new street ride, not quite 100 percent done but its rideable. Still waiting on a rear caliper from Jay brake and I have to finish the 30 wet shot nitrous system. Took it on a shake down run to philly from jersey and I have a feeling I will end up arrested on this thing. Great 300 mile ride."
Michael Goñi
Michael Goni
Link to photos, https://picasaweb.google.com/114855508338718873544/OhioEctaApril2012
Official records set,
Michael Goni
MPS/PBF-650/4 162.555 mph
PP/P-650/4 123.083 mph
Here are the details I drafted,
We straight killed it this weekend, in complete juxtaposition to our usual race weekend with only two runs on both bikes we got the job done. Tech friday was a cold but sunny day but it was a bitter cold and rainy mess Saturday and Sunday morning.
Because of the weather and the huge turnout we couldn't get any more than one run a day, first run on Saturday on the black bike was a mess, the nitrous system failed from the get go and there was some gnarly 25 mph cross winds in the morning (enough that it almost spun a couple cars when their chutes opened) so I only got a 134 mph, it was a half of third gear run at a crazy lean angle to keep going straight. After that run I immediately jumped on the orange bike and ripped a 117mph run in a head wind/quarter wind with the bike running a bit fat.
While at the pits we started tearing into the nitrous system and it just straight monsooned on us so we did the lunch thing. After the rain we diagnosed the nitrous issue as a clogged nitrous jet. A piece of rubber from god knows where lodged itself into the small nitrous hole and mushroomed out the other end, thankfully it wasn't the fuel jet that got clogged as that would have grenaded the engine.
Sunday we waited 6 hours to make one run, by the time we got up to the starting line the wind turned around and we had a slight breeze of a tailwind the sun came out and things were looking up. Once the track cleared I let it rip and for the first time everything went 100% smooth, hit every 7300rpm shift point, nitrous ran smooth through three gears and I passed the traps at around 6900rpm. It was so smooth and uneventful that it felt like a 150mph run. Final number, 162.5 mph, we ran 4 mph faster than 1.5 mile Loring and 11 mph faster than our Maxton 1 mile best. Best part is that it was still pulling hard, given enough room we could have possibly ran 400 more rpm, so things are looking up for Loring this year, half a mile more might be enough room to hit our 170 mph goal (plus we still have a couple more sizes of nitrous jets and about 7 more lbs of boost available). After that run I jumped back on the orange bike and ran another perfect text book run that got me up to 123mph on the production record, besting our previous production record from 114mph!
Michael Goñi
Michael Goni
Just got both the bikes tech inspected and if the weather cooperates we will be ready to set some new records tomorrow.
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