ONE of the young turks of the DLRA, 24-year-old Kurt Dunn became a
hired shoe this year, taking the tiller of Mike Davidson’s Flatattack blown
twin-flathead streamliner. It’s taken a few years to get the bugs out of the
big red beast, which is easily the most complicated piece of kit gracing
the great white straightaway at the moment. Sitting back behind the
rear axle, Kurt described it as big and gentle on the steering compared
to sitting up front of a twitchy lakester. On 60 per cent throttle it ran
230mph; next year, the gloves are off.Dunn Deal
Mike Davidson with driver
Kurt Dunn. Kurt’s dad Mark
also helped out by giving
Mike a hand to fix gearbox
and shifter dramas, as well
as revising the design of the
car’s periscope to improve
driver vision2Kurt kicked arse behind the
wheel, running 230.047mph
to set a new record for the XF
Blown Gas Streamliner class.
Despite his youth, Kurt has
plenty of experience behind
the wheel, both at Lake
Gairdner and Bonneville3You can read the full story
on Mike’s creation on
streetmachine.com.au, but in
short, the streamliner is powered
by two ancient 221ci flathead
V8s, force-fed by a Rotax
supercharger and a Wolf V550
datalogger ECU
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