DIY Homemade Engine Builder Captures 44 Year-Old Land Speed Record
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- Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun are known for their homemade engines they build from scratch. They have proven their success with over 30 land speed records in the books. Recently, at the 2021 November El Mirage event, Team Aardema/Braun brought home a 44-year-old record which was set back in August of 1977 by Don Carr. In this video you will see driver Cal Rothe make 3 attempts to lock in this record and make history. The vehicle classification is a (E) Fuel Lakester with a 258ci, 4-liter modified Olds Rocket V8 engine built by Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun. This unique one-of-a-kind engine has a 2.7” inch stroke with a 3.9” inch bore and has been heavily modified and adapted with Corvette ZR1 LT5 Quad cam cylinder heads. This high revving naturally aspirated engine makes 553 HP on gasoline and 682 HP with a 100 shot of nitrous oxide. Jump in the drivers seat and see first hand how talented old school gear heads work together as a team to capture a new land speed record of 226 MPH!
What a wild ride! I was correcting the steering the whole way down the track and could not wait to blow out the parachute. I am honored to be part of the team. And Greg, with out you, no one would know our adventures!
Can't wait to see it with a 200 shot!!!
Congrats on the record.
Amazing drive Cal 🇦🇺❤️
Was the car as “loose” as it looked? It looks like you’re drifting side to side a bit at times. I know nothin’ about nothin’, just curious. Congrats on the record!
Congratulations Cal! That was some very impressive driving! You have a big fan in Florida brother!
Love watching these blokes with their can-do attitude. Small budget racers who get records with wisdom and hard work !
Team Aardema and Braun I salute you ☺🦘
A home made engine that makes good power is an achievement in itself.
Thank you !
Several years ago I tracked Pete Aardema down because I had heard of his efforts with Cosworth Pontiac Super Duty cylinder heads. He's a super nice guy who took a good 30 minutes out of his day to talk with a complete stranger and shared what he could about the engine. Cool guy.
What record exactly? Rules for the record? Standing start across a measured distance? Speed through the traps? Why no backup run the opposite direction?
On a long track like Bonneville you can run according to FIA rules which means flying km or flying mile and second run in the other direction. There are also SCTA and other rules this appears to be a shorter track and timed over a shorter distance and maybe no backup run either.
The old man has jet engines, streamliners and a monster truck. I like him already.
I hope to do a video feature on Mr. Callaway some day soon.
@@GregQuirin Don't wait too long Mate! George is part of LSR history but he also has a lot of years behind him!
SO WONDERFUL!!!! WOOOO HOOO.. LAND SPEED RACING 4 LIFE!!!! RECORDS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN!!
Thank you for watching! Happy New Year!
Gotta love drivers. He’s like “yeah yeah shut the canopy so I can rip this bitch”. Finding someone who can actually drive and do the job ain’t easy. Plenty of people can run the car down the track but not many keep the throttle pinned when the nitrous throws the he car sideways at speed. Lol
Your right about that! Both Drivers Cal and Scott know how to drive. Prior to Cal's last run there were several high speed spinouts at this last event. One of the cars rolled at high speed. Thanks for watching! Greg
I too thank you Greg for taking the time and using your knowledge to show us these builds that I'd never have known about.
Your welcome! Thanks for watching!
This was amazing to watch. The knowledge combined of the men on camera here is something to witness and a privilege...Thank You!
It's a choice, die of old age in retirement or go faster then warp speed and break records.
Land speed racers, the last of the true racers who will drop everything to help a competitor
The LSR community is one big family and very fun to hang around! Happy New Year!
You know, as a western Canadian road racer, I'd have to agree with you. The shining contrast to that is when the Americans used to come across the border.
I've personally experienced a complete group effort from them when my car had major issues, and I was throwing in the towel. Five complete foreign strangers swarmed around my car assessing, and then springing into action to get me back on track.
Not a single local racer, including the one pitted the next stall over, even stopped in. I've heard similar experinces by two friends, one is a road racer, the other a bike road racer.
both prefer either US sanctioned Canadian events or going across the line to race in the states.
So my hats off to all you Americans.
Thanks Greg and congratulations to the team. Fantastic achievement.
Our pleasure! thank you for watching and supporting this channel!
Judging by that mustache the driver was made for this record lol
Imagine how fast it would have gone were decent traction obtainable.
great content , you found interesting engines , everything usually on us based channels is LS all the things , k series that or cummings etc etc .. keep up with finding unique drive trains :)
The in cockpit video was just great watching him gently steer out of trouble. I'll bet 90% of drivers don't know how to steer out of a slide. When I was in high school in the 60's the first snow of the year would find me and my buddies out practicing our 4 wheel drifts in our 49-50 Fords and Chevies. Being an avid skier those early learned skills have served me well over the years. Well over a thousand trips to and from the ski areas with no wrecks. I've driven past many hundreds of people in the ditch (usually 4X4's).
Thanks for sharing. Really amazing what it takes to get a record at these events
You could lead out with what record they were trying to break.
Freaking awesome job, congratulations to everyone involved in the project 👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻🙌🏻👏🏻
Really impressed with it all 😁
Our pleasure! thank you for watching!
Congrats to you all awesome job everyone involved and Cal great driving
Thanks for documenting all of this Greg, so many legendary folks
Your Welcome! Thanks for watching!
Agreed. Great job, Greg.
@@larryengelbrecht6704 Thank you ! I hope you can join us for one of the races next season! Happy New Year!
Just imagine, NASCAR was going nearly this fast AND going around turns back in the 1980s…in an open cockpit full-sized car.
But they needed more than a mile to get up to those speeds. I would love for someone to take a classically configured NASCAR racecar of that era and make a salt run with it. My guess is maybe 170's max with the same gear, tire diameter and aerodynamics. I just don't think they would be able to achieve 200 mph by the finish line. But again, it would be interesting to find out.
and with a budget as big as Texas
not sure what the point is of trying to equate two very different types of racing
would love to see one of them "open cockpit" cars
It’s a totally different type of racing. Surely you can see the difference between the two and understand that a record doesn’t stand for 44 years without good reason.
Genuinely enjoyed your video ! Especially the trip down memory lane of nostalgia speed record attempt cars !
If I had to guess, I would imagine that you have been swamped by requests for information on the location of them.
Here is my question,
( actually, a comment first )
I am paralyzed from my shoulders down, and have always had an interest in owning a land speed record car !
Would you have any knowledge of if this gentleman would have interest in parting from any one of them ?
I would be extremely interested in doing a full restoration on one of them !
Especially a streamliner !
Looking forward to hearing from you, to know if there would be any further information on them !!!
Thanks again !
Great video, but I wish there were more details about the parameters of the class, and the RPM etc. Or maybe I missed it? Thanks for posting it.
G'day from West Australia, Greg😉🙂
Tell the team I said congratulations .
That's a record earned for sure🙂👍👍
Happy New Year Steve!
@@GregQuirin Happy New Year, may the New Year bring many blessings to one and all. 🙂👍👍
The Lunar Duner Not Hillman Minx... body....Renault Dauphine
How about a single cylinder 500cc 4 stroke that turns 10,000 rpm for a go kart. We need some of those too!
I’d like to see if we can run karts on one of Ardema’s properties. We need a huge parking lot. Bring back Karting in San Diego. Sponsored by San Diego Roadster Club. Dirt Oval is popular too. That Ardema 500cc could get me a first at Perris Speedway. I love land speed racing, but one run doesn’t get my nut. We need another type of event with laps involved guys.
Guys .....WELL DONE....just absolutley fantastic. Its all worth it..in the end.👌🏁🏁 That motor sounds sweet...🏁
Thank you ! Greg Q
I had a 72 Oldsmobile Cuttlas with the 350 Rocket engine! It was great as is, better once bored and stroked, but this guy souped one up to the freaking max!
Awesome ...congrats to the team
What RPM did that engine rev to
About 9500 RPM
Absolutely outstanding. Wishing you all the very best for 2022 🍻
Happy new year! Thank you for watching the video!
Congratulations, one could spend a lifetime dreaming of such an achievement or one can get up and do it, you’re part of a very exclusive group of rare breeds. I hope this year will be my year to ‘do it’ too.
Thank you so much! and thanks you for watching! Greg Q
Many a man/woman has spent many an hour tinkering in their shed/garage, thinking, trying, tuning, starting again. But that is what chasing a dream is all about, the passion, the love of it all. One man, two or more, same dream, to go faster than any before them. May these dreams live on and many a record keep getting chased and broken.
Said Burt Monroe.. on point my friend 👍🏻
How odd, I was looking for a old friend on YT "Don Carr" and I found this. I worked with Don at a Oldsmobile dealership from '79-85, he managed the garage at the time as well as ran his lakester with Barry Kaplan. great guys, always had time to teach others and explain how things worked. I saw him a few years later, early 90's or so and he was learning the priesthood. Had sold the truck & lakester and was moving on with life. I hope he's doing well these days.
Small World! Thank you for sharing!
Oh, what sweet sound that engine makes.
It would have been helpful to define the class rules for context. Anyone can put together a 700hp motor so I am scratching my head.
This is very cool but with road legal passenger cars doing these speeds and beyond, this is slightly less interesting than it would have been 44 years ago. LOL
Nice job! What is the record specifically though?
I thought the land speed record for an internal combustion engine was about 400 mph. They were doing 230 mph in the 1920's.
I was wondering the same, think it may be a one mile run from a standing start.
@@PreservationEnthusiast there's a ton of special classes depending on build type. info in the description.
@@daos3300 I read the description and it didn't really answer that question. It mentioned class E and 4 litres and home build but it didn't specifically identify any restriction or make the category clear.
Also, the title of the video is total clickbait because it just says *The* land speed record. They went faster than this in 1929, so the restriction on the category should be mentioned in the title. For example 4 litres or less, or whatever it was, I'm still not clear on that.
@@PreservationEnthusiast for the specific classes/categories you'll need to check the fia website. other than the absolute fastest (the 'outright' category for which this car is clearly not meant to be a contender) there isn't just a single lsr. it's a wide field which is what makes it so accessible and fun. and it's not clickbait since the title specifically says '44-yr old lsr', not 'the' lsr.
What's even crazier is the fact the car had more to go.... Congratulations!!!
I remember the Lunar Duner on Colorado Blvd in late '60;s Pasadena when it was Hilman bodied
That's so cool you remember it! I'm glad you were able to see it in it's current state.
@@GregQuirin My buds and I saw the Lunar Duner parked at Pasadena City College. Blew our minds. We were street racers going for the widest tires and having to flair the fenders to keep legal. You guys rocked and today everyone is showing some tread.
Is that George Callaway the Turbo man ?
Wish my LT5 rev'd like that!
I met cal a few times nicest guy. As I am sure the rest are. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! The Aardema Braun team is just awesome!
THE BEST COOL IS
OLD SCHOOL,
American Made # 1,
Some of you youngster's can learn a Hell of lot from your elders,
Don't waste your time and money on foreign cars, build a Chevy, or Ford, Dodge, something American.
Well at least it has the camshafts in the right place and the correct number of valves. Also I'm pretty sure those Corvette ZR1 LT5 heads were designed by Lotus, so the engine might not be quite as American as you think it is.
A streamliner with a scratch built engine made with many already existing parts joined by fabricated assemblies, displacing 258 cubic inches and turning 10 grand. Producing enough power to spin the tires at speed when the nitrous kicks in, beats 44 yr old record by a slim margin while displaying the ability to go even faster in a time when production streetcars ( albeit very few and massively expensive ) can top 250. Got all that. What I didn't get, what was the actual record ( class and specs ) that they broke ? AWESOME JOB THOUGH guys, loved seeing most of it, verry impressive
I guess because this record is on dirt on a 1.3 mile track? How much space does a Veyron need on dirt?
Winning anything is a big buzz and that's a great way to end a year...
Real nice!
Just got thru watching it 5 times.
Old Guys Rule!🏴☠🟥⬜🟦🏎
Without traction issues, I wonder what the record could be?
Hard to say? I'm amazed that these cars can hook up on dirt with these little pizza cutter tires they all run in land speed racing.
@@GregQuirin there's no such thing as 100% traction. That just means you're short on power.
Why not go all wheel drive? Clearly the rear wheels had too much power and made him sway. With all wheel drive perhaps the tires wouldn’t have broken traction, also if they did, they’d pull evenly and the sway would be less, god it looked pretty twitchy from inside the car. Honestly with all wheel drive you’ll be breaking that record
Not sure if all wheel drive is allowed in this category? I do know Pete and Kevin are making a front wheel drive streamliner. Pretty much all the vehicles are running these little pizza cutter tires and have the same issue with traction.
That was a wild ride by an ace cool head driver, not forgetting the team and last minute help a day to remember, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
So sick
There was an Olds Diesel block that was popular in NHRA Comp Eliminato, maybe had small block Chevy bore centers . Foyt and others must have had good blocks for their Indy Car IRL deal . Can't remember but I think was Aurora based .
The sheer excitement I get from seeing a man's face of that age, light up like a pro tree at nationals, is awesome.
You can never keep a true professional team down Brilliant just brilliant.
Great to see a fellow Chevy and OHC advocate come out on top. I wish they would cut llose with that free-valve tech though. LOL
That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen , what a team and what a spectacular driving job !
I loved Bonneville I run the Harley that broke the wit record in 1990 I test rode it told them to put more downforce on front I went 232 first ever test run and told them it had ole more throttle two months later it went 353 world record
do you have any pictures. that sounds a little hairy going that fast on loose surface.
That course is really short when the car is traveling at 226
Yep, El Mirage is this way. Unlike Bonneville, you have a lot more room to slow her down.
congrats! no backup run?
Unbelievable!! A&B for the win with two clean runs a to b, pun intended :-) Thanks for documenting everything Greg. Living Legends adding more to the legend. If I can ever get out there I'll definitely volunteer. Maine is about as far away as you can get.
Some happy guys there!
Hell of a beast..haha
Fast as hell !
Looks like he purposely spun out in the beginning why did he crank the wheel to the right?
He ran out of room. End of the track, he tried the stop the vehicle by turning. He spoon out of control past the track boundary line and was disqualified for the run. The run was measured at 232 MPH. it was an unfortunate event for the driver who had the record for a moment. thanks Greg
Thanks for documenting this stuff, Greg
Glad you enjoyed it, I hope to have some more content soon!
This is really cool. I'm missing context on what brackets of land speed records there are. I don't know. There are road cars like the McLaren F1 that hit 247 mph. Can someone explain? I watched this through.
Thanks for asking this question, You are right the New McLarens top speed is 250MPH with a 4L V8 and is rated at 1036 HP with twin turbos and a parallel hybrid system. Pete' and Kevin's land speed car is also a Frankenstein 4L V8 with nitrous and is naturally aspirated and making approximately 700HP. Keep in mind this record was set on the lakebed at 3000 FT on dirt with pizza cutter tires, no traction control, Just 100% good old fashion driving input. Land speed records are hard to get as this one was on the books for over 4 decades. Thanks for watching and please check out some of the other videos. Greg Q
@@GregQuirin Cheers, thanks for the reply
i'm confused by this. The description to me implies this vehicle was powered by a 4 litre V8 engine yet when I Google 226mph land speed record it says that was for a vehicle powered by a 4 cylinder production engine. How many cylinders did the engine in the video have ?
clearly a v8 in the film. the info you googled was the record for a 4 cyl.
@@daos3300 Well the speed quoted was 226mph, I could find no other land speed record for that speed. There are a great many land speed record categories, it would have been nice to know what record they actually broke.
Congradulations everyone !
Good stuff guys nice video
Thank you!
meanwhile in germany there's some idiots in their chiron going down the autobahn at 260mph😆 jokes aside.. great stuff guys! looks like a lot of fun!
How is 226mph a record for land speed? My mitsubishi 3000gt vr4 with nitrous does 189mph and that's a street registered passenger vehicle with a mostly factory duel overhead cam v-6 3 liter... seems the land speed record should be way higher especially with all these mods and enhanced parts.
Neweeb here, what class is it ? ,,, open wheeled streamliner ?
This is a Lakester, Its open wheel so it not considered a streamliner. The class designation is FL = Fuel Lakester, Fuel meaning it using nitrous oxide. The engine classification is E which is a 4 liter class.
What a rush! 😎
Greg, first let me say i love this series. Pete Aardema and Kev Braun have been legends to this fevered motor brain since I was a child. Much of the "science of going fast" as we know it today has spent time gestating in Pete and Kevin's shed. OK, I've laid up enough "good ole boy" creds, so here's the thing; there is a lot more to Mayor Calloway than you seem to realize- he's about as integral to "how we got here" for land speedsters in the US as it's possible to be. Those old cars also have tales to tell- and the "40's lakester" is a bit later than you think- go talk to George- better see if you can get him and the A&B team to "do lunch" and talk land speed legends. You seem to have the importance of motor head legends in hand- they live and operate in a universe with those outlandish toys they build. Go there, see/hear that and bring it! FR
Frederic, It would be a great honor to document George Callaway's story and influence in the LSR community. If there is a way to go out their and meet with him on a Saturday or Sunday I'm all in. I know there is a lot of history here and I feel stuff like this needs to be documented so land speed racing history isn't lost. Thank you! Greg
@@GregQuirin If I knew any numbers that would get you there, I would be glad to forward them! In many ways motor sport is very much the histories of the men and the machines of their eras, dancing as fast and furiously as they can. Many of them document some of the bravest and brightest men of all. FR
That record ride was WILD. Thanks for sharing man 👌
You are welcome, thank you for watching out videos. Greg Q
Were they happy? I couldn't tell.
Yes! Very
Misleading title. You said he built it from scratch, like designed each part. Somebody cobbling together a performance engine? TONS IF PEOPLE DO THIS. I can do this. My Subaru mechanical can he built mine, my dad can. You said from scratch 😢
That is a bunch of cool dudes! Living legends.
That's one high revving engine! Holy smokes. When you lost traction it looked like it pegged 9k RPM in a split second.
Yes it was! Check out this run when it was at 10,000RPM th-cam.com/video/tUmnOAGdAxs/w-d-xo.html Greg
that engine sound 💪💪💪
Did you happen to see the V12 on the Dyno video? that sounds even better!
Looks like the salt is gone?
Maybe you are thinking of the Bonneville salt flats. El Mirage is a dry lake bed, but not a salt lake bed.
@@alexjenner1108 oh thanks man I didn't know that
Awesome 👏 great RUN!!!!!
Thanks! 👍
Been watching these old guts 4 a few years Wayne. Ur Dad 👨 would really enjoy this & there engines . Hand made from scratch 😅
What was the old record?
That was fantastic to watch. Congratulations guys
Well done to everybody involved!!!
Thank you Leo - Happy New Year!
My brother had a renault dolphin when i was a boy, my pa used the engine and transaxle in a homade tractor that had a cutdown kaiser Chrysler posi rearend end after a 200 to 1 angle reduction box .that renoult was number 3 . Now i know why my brother wasnt too happy pa nade it a tractor .
I thought I was a bit rad... Balls of Steel my friend!...balls of hardened steel!
Great vid. Loved the last few secs especially listening to that engine just flat out howling past. Well done, hell of a ride
What record did they break? Fastest engine driven? Fastest naturally aspirated?
It's not built from scratch if it's a *modified* Olds Rocket V8
Like most watching this ??
What was the Record for ?
The class of Engine seems to be 4 Litre Fuel Engine.
With a touch of Nitrous, to give it some kick.
I was a little unsure myself until I read more.
At around 360 KMH it's definitely moving.
I'm from New Zealand and don't really understand US class rules, but I think class E is 260 cid (4.26L), probably for some historical reasons they didn't just use 4.0L as the limit. Also I think this is an El Mirage record and there are also Bonneville records which tend to be faster, due to the longer course, and there are also FIA world records, but I don't think they have a 4L class.
What is a Homemade Engine Builder?
Is it a Home Built or Home Made Engine?
Literally brought tears to my eyes!
That was a wild ride. Looked like he was drifting for most of the course.
Motor sounds great really pulling hard sounds like could take more gear
So at El mirage you only have to hit the speed, where as at Bonneville you have to hold the speed for the full mile? And are the 2 race types ( peak speed vs sustained AVG speed) running on the same record.
Sounds like I should be running El mirage instead of the salt it's a lot easier on equipment to just hit the peak for a second or two then to hold the peak for a full mile.
El Mirage isn’t big enough for average speeds and the timing association is very small. Look at it on the Google satellite map sometime.
El mirage also only requires one pass to set a record. You don't have to back it up with a second run.
IF PETE WAS THERE IN 53,HES 8YRS AHEAD OF ME AND IM 84,SO HE MUST BE 92?