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Gary Hart's land-speed Studebaker

Can you say 242mph MegaSquirt'd Monster?

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Big Block 515 with twin Garrett turbos

So the background story is in early 2005 I sold a PCB2.2 MS-I unit to a guy in Missouri planning to use it on a boat, I'm not sure exactly what happened to that but I got a call/email a while later from Mike Collison, a cohort of Gary Hart's, after they had purchased the ECU from the original owner and wanted to talk to me about using it on this twin-turbo'd beast instead. With low-impedance injectors being a must for this horsepower level I had Mike send the ECU back my way and I upgraded the unit with the flyback board to allow for this (this was all before the new PCBv3 came out, which is fine with low or hi-z injectors) and I then got it back to him. It was a while later that I heard back from the guys there, but it turns out they had been staying very busy... After the MegaSquirt-I PCBv3.0 board was released we upgraded Gary to this board running the same code and configuration for no reason other than we could, though it's a good move with the improved design of the v3.0 PCB. Then, keeping Gary running the latest/greatest mainboard we swapped in a PCBv3.57 SMT MegaSquirt-I EMS while out on the salt last year. So at this point Gary is again running the latest/greatest mainboard available, still running the eariler processor however and the MS1 Extra code version 029t controlling his EFI.

Last dyno session, (2008) the Stude' made about 750whp on a Mustang Dyno and similar torque, this would be closer to 900whp on a Dynojet more than likely as Mustangs have a bit of a heartbreaker reputation. This was at about 11psi.

We bumped the boost up to 13.5-14psi on the salt in 2008 eeking a few more mph out of the car. Estimates are this should have given us another 100-125whp over the 750whp we were at. The motor should be good for significantly more boost and capable of producing 1500+whp, but this isn't drag racing for 6 seconds and shutting it down. This is all about WOT runs for 90 seconds straight, and he has to pull two of them for it to count, at over 245mph each. Longevity is key.

See the links below for the results of Gary's trips to Bonneville SpeedWeek 06 / 07 / 08.....