This is the official website of the Disturbing Da Peace Race Team (car #415). The goal of this website is to inform you of current builds, upcoming events, and world records – both currently held and goals. Below is a picture of the car we have now. This site is still in progress and we will be adding a photo gallery and a calendar in addition to our homepage with all of our posts. Thank you for supporting the hobby.
Hey everybody,
The 2012 Bonneville Speedweek is over and we are back home. Everybody had a lot of fun and it was a good event. We would like to thank everyone who has helped us come so far with the car. We would especially like to thank the all of our team members for their hard work and the SCTA for hosting the event. You can see the pictures for this year here.
Over the last few weeks we have been putting the finishing touches on the body. We’ve done a lot of painting lately and the car looks good. All the new pieces match nicely and the scoop and windshield have been riveted in. The latches have been installed on the cowl and they work well. All the pictures since the last update can be seen here.
We have essentially finished the windshield on the lakester. All that is left is to attach the lexan itself to the system that is in place. The latches and hinges, etc are all working. With that out of the way we started to work on the new air scoop. The previous one worked just fine but it no longer fits with the cockpit enclosed. Our original idea was to have a full tube come up to try to force in as much air as possible and maybe get a little free boost out of it. You can see that design here. After some discussion we came to the conclusion that this would produce too much drag to make the minimal boost made worth it. With this in mind a more streamlined scoop was made. You can see the final design here. In addition to the main scoop on top for air intake there are a few smaller aircraft style scoops that are purely to move air across the engine to avoid over-heating.
We have been working on adding a windshield to the car to improve the aerodynamics by enclosing the cockpit and hopefully pick up a few miles per hour. So far we have the shape cut out and the latch just arrived in the mail. We are basically remaking about half of the top of the car. Here are a few pictures of the work in progress. These are from a few days ago so have come a bit since then but hey give you a rough idea of how it’s going.