2014 Thunder Road confirmed Sat 9th August Woodbridge

[TheLeatherman]

Xpuffin said:

Mine only does 12.5 quarters so I wouldn't see which way you went off the line but my TS is 137 so whilst slower time wise I'm actually going faster. That's what you were seeing at TR with the big FI builds.

How much real bhp is yours putting out???

And as we said I'm only looking for 180 mph which again I say I think is doable. But I have not said it will do more than that.

Regarding your speed at the 1/4, I wonder if I would be far enough ahead to stay ahead for the 1 mile???? I reckon it would be close if I was already at least 1.5 seconds faster to the 1/4 - now there's a real grudge match. I had it with the Street Tuna Twin turbos at the LS1 Nationals - I was faster out of the hole, he slowly gained on top end but couldn't catch me at all at the 1/4. So much so he pretty much parked it for the rest of the competition as I was supposedly the FI/Boost prey. I was only ever beaten by one other 5.7 LS1 in all my time racing - and that was the infamous Markone2 with his SV8 who taught me to race.

Edited by TheLeatherman on Monday 11th August 21:18

[ARAF]

TheLeatherman said:

Xpuffin said:

I'm pretty sure you're Monaros running a lot more than 400 too based on your position in the rankings.
Good luck though, like I said, I'd like to see it but the miles a whole new game over the quarter.

I totally agree it's a different kettle of fish, but I've done a bit of homework on a 1 mile run from standing start.

The Monaro is putting out a genuine 264 rwkw = 350 bhp at the wheels. That was what was on the dyno sheet from back in 2005 and she's never been on a dyno since. Again I think hard, but decent, launches for NA cars are crucial as it gives it chance to get up to speed.

If time permits we'll do the transplant. If not maybe Dougie could make an exception that I trailer it up there as that would be a lot simpler although aeros might affect it a bit.

The Astra was trailered up. You must have an MOT if you do though.

[Xpuffin]

TheLeatherman said:

How much real bhp is yours putting out???

And as we said I'm only looking for 180 mph which again I say I think is doable. But I have not said it will do more than that.

Edited by TheLeatherman on Monday 11th August 21:13

Bench dynod at 909
Standing mile 193.3

[TheLeatherman]

Xpuffin said:

Bench dynod at 909
Standing mile 193.3

That is a truly awesome figure

[Xpuffin]

TheLeatherman said:

Regarding your speed at the 1/4, I wonder if I would be far enough ahead to stay ahead for the 1 mile???? I reckon it would be close if I was already at least 1.5 seconds faster to the 1/4 - now there's a real grudge match. I had it with the Street Tuna Twin turbos at the LS1 Nationals - I was faster out of the hole, he slowly gained on top end but couldn't catch me at all at the 1/4. So much so he pretty much parked it for the rest of the competition as I was supposedly the FI/Boost prey. I was only ever beaten by one other 5.7 LS1 in all my time racing - and that was the infamous Markone2 with his SV8 who taught me to race.

Edited by TheLeatherman on Monday 11th August 21:18

That's a very interesting question.
My only real experience is of the First TR when the event was open to all marques a guy turned up with a 997 GT2 (having since got to know him well it was running 685hp fly that day)
He just disappeared off the line but I still crossed first and in the 190s to his mid 180s.
I'm pretty sure he's in the 10s as mine will do mid 11s with nowhere near the power.

[ARAF]

Similar can be seen in this (taken from FB76 car) where we were very close at the line, but he was over 6mph faster.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1015237172862...

[fastbikes76]

ARAF said:

Similar can be seen in this (taken from FB76 car) where we were very close at the line, but he was over 6mph faster.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1015237172862...

And with around 50bhp less than me your auto absolutely stomped me till just about the very end !

Bring it to the Pod ARAF

[raving]

TheLeatherman said:

The ute has 4.11's in it - perhaps that might help......... and you're working on 100% transfer of RPM to velocity figures that will not happen via a stall converter in an auto in my setup. She'll make 0.5 past light speed.... oh sorry wrong saying. No seriously I think she'd do it. The difference in power and performance between LBT (the ute's nickname) and the Monaro is staggering I can assure you.

I think I've shared this picture before but you can see how lively she is in race mode with 1.41 60' times!!

Edited by TheLeatherman on Monday 11th August 20:59

Did Mark at Power Torque build & tune your motor

[TheLeatherman]

raving said:

Did Mark at Power Torque build & tune your motor

Yup - Mark and I are old buddies. In fact a guy called Shane Alex built the motor, and he was the head engine builder there at the time. He now has his own shop but it is in sunny Queensland!!!

[raving]

TheLeatherman said:

Yup - Mark and I are old buddies. In fact a guy called Shane Alex built the motor, and he was the head engine builder there at the time. He now has his own shop but it is in sunny Queensland!!!

Me & my best pal use to go over to Marks ,top bloke & knows his stuff , he refreshed an 18 degree small block for him

[jameshsv]

TheLeatherman said:

A fair bit of stuff including 2" DF headers, BIG cam, RHS heads and a couple of other bits.

Here's a snapshot of a 10.8 run in the ute back in 2008 - note the revs ;-) and the nice square trace for % Throttle!!!!

Also at the 1/4 I'd be at somewhere near 125 mph assuming a good launch, which is key to VMax for NA engines, so I'd have a bit of distance to pick up the remaining mph.





And even with this she was a pussy cat on the street thanks to the tune. A thirsty pussy admittedly!!!!

Edited by TheLeatherman on Monday 11th August 20:08

Very nice Leatherman.Do the 2" DF Headers fit ok without knocking on anything.

[ringram]

The more the merrier..
Might even get some of the frightened children to bring their cars next time..

Roger... Mark..., Sarge..

[007 VXR]

ringram said:

The more the merrier..
Might even get some of the frightened children to bring their cars next time..

Roger... Mark..., Sarge..

iam not in England at the moment
will be their next time so bring your "Gay nappy"


p.s. Mine has done 176 with only a 122 sc
now running alot higher spec

Cam fuel system tvs 2300 chiler plus other bits

Edited by 007 VXR on Monday 11th August 23:35

Edited by 007 VXR on Monday 11th August 23:41

[ARAF]

ringram said:

The more the merrier..
Might even get some of the frightened children to bring their cars next time..

Roger... Mark..., Sarge..

Bit early to be stoking the fire isn't it?

Got to admit, when Liam threw down the gauntlet, you didn't hesitate to pick it up.

[jameshsv]

ARAF said:

Bit early to be stoking the fire isn't it?

Got to admit, when Liam threw down the gauntlet, you didn't hesitate to pick it up.

Its never too early to stoke the fire ARAF

[007 VXR]

jameshsv said:

Its never too early to stoke the fire ARAF

Just makes it more fun to piss on it

[jameshsv]

007 VXR said:

Just makes it more fun to piss on it

That's very true 007

[ringram]

My main target are the vxr8's
Not the little lightweight coupe's

Im 3rd in that dept at present and only 3mph behind...

But I'll have a go at it all.
That's the fun part.

[jameshsv]

ringram said:

My main target are the vxr8's
Not the little lightweight coupe's

Im 3rd in that dept at present and only 3mph behind...

But I'll have a go at it all.
That's the fun part.

My main target is goldy

[007 VXR]

ringram said:

My main target are the vxr8's
Not the little superior coupe's

Im 3rd in that dept at present and only 3mph behind...

But I'll have a go at it all.
That's the fun part.

EFA