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[Robmarriott]

Front (or wrong) wheel drive drag racing.

Now, for those of you unfamiliar with the record, I believe it currently stands at 9.28 seconds in the UK in a slightly more potent than standard Vauxhall Tigra.

What I want to know is how the guys in the US are able to go so much quicker?

Is it down to regulations allowing car specs to differ vastly from the UK racers' or something else?

Also, I'm keen to give the whole thing a go in the next year or so, but need a car to begin with, if you were starting fresh, what would you go for as a starting point? I can think of a few options, but would like to know the general concensus on here too.

[Robmarriott]

Ok, slight error on my part, it's 9.86 not 9.28 ops:

[Robmarriott]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEwowyJW9ys&fea...

That's the record run, not a lot of spec about that I know of, but I know it was making upwards of 700bhp, still uses an h pattern box and is road legal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xzE6oIxGKY&fea...

That was a liner failure at the top end, I think

As for your suggestions of cars, I was thinking much the same, with the VR6, never though anything of the 1.8t and the 6 pot seems to be capable of making more power more easily.

The gearbox, some of the FWD VW gearboxes are fairly strong, but the clutch I agree with, that's not going to be easy to sort.

Edited by Robmarriott on Friday 8th July 09:07

[Robmarriott]

What do you want for it Luke?

[Robmarriott]

Luke, thanks for the offer of yours but it's a little more than I can afford right now, getting married in 3 weeks and it's costing a little more than planned lol!

The Corsa of Kalle Uhr's? is that the insane wide bodied one with a Saab engine?

[Robmarriott]

Will this count as a UK record though, if he runs quicker than Guy?

[Robmarriott]

Rain stopped play I take it?

[Robmarriott]

I hear rumours of an 8.99 at tierp, any confirmations?

[Robmarriott]

Not keen on the looks of the car but it's a definite performer!

[Robmarriott]

Seen the gold before, I love a sleeper and that's a sleeper in the truest sense o the word.

Out of interest, what is the fwd world record, road legal or full race spec?

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Seen that S3 before, that started my obsession with Octavia Estates, strangely enough.

I figured that would be a better sleeper than an S3 or R32.

[Robmarriott]

Wow! That's a big jump. That the same Klasen family who have the yellow VX220 with millions of horsepower?

[Robmarriott]

It'd be interesting to know how much each car would cost to put together

[Robmarriott]

Normally the first weekend of June.

I remember seeing the VX220 in 2008, that's why I recognised the name!

I was always a little disappointed with the regal/eds nova, never seemed to perform so well on UK tarmac as it did in Germany, nice idea though.

Would be nice to see the Astra in the UK at some point.

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'Creating a new account is currently not possible'

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Yeah lol, if you go to the login page, there's no 'register here' button, so I changed the last bit of the web add to 'register' and that message came up.

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Updates!