RE: Bluffers' Guide to RWYB
Discussion
UKFIVEO said:
As someone who bought a 1969 Mach 1 Mustang many years ago with the intention of a full back to original resto job, I attended a RWYB at Santa Pod. 15.85 seconds later I was hooked! 3 years later I had a 600 hp Mustang with nitrous capable of running high nines.
Bloody hell. My current car might *just* do mid 14's with a decent driver. With me, probably more like mid 15's......
Sub 10 is stupidly fast. Can I have a go?
enginearin said:
I saw a pair of V8 fiat 126's a few years back @ SP (red 1 and a blue 1). Mad machines!!! sitting on the line the whole car was rocking when they revved the engines, can't remember the times though safe to say they were quick as i still remember (and talk about)them.
I want an ikle car with a biiiig engine.
Alan420 said:
Sub 10 is stupidly fast.
Remember this when watching the Fast and the Furious.
I didn't watch it. I was too busy crying with laughter.....
Big engines in ickle cars are fun. I ran against a mk1 golf GTi. Looked standard.
Turned in a 12.2.
Not sure what was under the bonnet, but it may well have been a fettled VAG 1.8T. By the way it left the line, I suspect there was one in the back too......
Great sleeper.
Fensport have a 400bhp 4wd Corolla. That looks pretty standard as well (apart from the wheels)
Mr E said:
As someone who bought a 1969 Mach 1 Mustang many years ago with the intention of a full back to original resto job, I attended a RWYB at Santa Pod. 15.85 seconds later I was hooked! 3 years later I had a 600 hp Mustang with nitrous capable of running high nines.
Bloody hell. My current car might *just* do mid 14's with a decent driver. With me, probably more like mid 15's......
Sub 10 is stupidly fast. Can I have a go?
Sorry Mr E that car is no more, it was sold as a rolling shell and replaced with a spaceframe Sierra which went 9.14 at 143 mph in the quarter or 5.75 at 117 mph in the eighth mile. It was sold when our team all got mortgages!
There's never been any kind of scrutineering at Santa Pod that I've ever seen. In fact, it wouldn't be hard to sign on with your mate's driving licence if you forget yours.
Also found the Pod to be slippery, as someone else says. My old Vette span the wheels in second, which never happens on the road.
Fantastic fun, though, and pretty good value.
Also found the Pod to be slippery, as someone else says. My old Vette span the wheels in second, which never happens on the road.
Fantastic fun, though, and pretty good value.
UKFIVEO said:
Sorry Mr E that car is no more, it was sold as a rolling shell and replaced with a spaceframe Sierra which went 9.14 at 143 mph in the quarter or 5.75 at 117 mph in the eighth mile. It was sold when our team all got mortgages!
Damn. I'd like to know what something that can do that feels like when it shoves you in the back and blasts you down the road....
Bet no one here remembers the drag racing a Felton, Northumberland in the 70's. MG's, Vitesses, Anglias. Rods, all RWYB. Eric Burdons old Vette used to go, brought by Tom Falconer of Claremont corvettes. Eeeeh the good old days eh. No helmets, race suits, in them days, just a few pints on the way home.....
sagalout said:
Bet no one here remembers the drag racing a Felton, Northumberland in the 70's. MG's, Vitesses, Anglias. Rods, all RWYB. Eric Burdons old Vette used to go, brought by Tom Falconer of Claremont corvettes. Eeeeh the good old days eh. No helmets, race suits, in them days, just a few pints on the way home.....
Bliss.....
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