The more successful salt flats cars use a "cooling" system that just stores your engine heat in a massive tank of water until the end of the run, because radiators have very high aerodynamic drag. Seal up the grille, seal up the underbody, in addition to rmay's suggestions.
A former coworker of mine is a Wankel enthusiast who wanted to buy a Honda Insight body for racing. It's 1835lbs before you strip out the hybrid powertrain (and sell it on EcoModder!), has 20ft² frontal area, and starts with Cd=0.25. I have no idea if it could be made stable at 200mph.
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