Drag Strip

[G Man]

Could be a laugh if we could get a handfull of Ultimas to RWYB at Santa Pod in early October on a Sunday.
Any one fancy a 1/4 mile drag ??

[G Man]

I be there on Sunday,

Which is the best day for people Sunday 6 October or 13 October

[G Man]

quote:
Me ow.


Funny enough have 5 Spares now !!
If you think your man enough !!!
Bring you Pink Slip.

OK lets do this on October 6th,

We'll see who are the Drag Kings that day, the Drag Queens can bring their Pink Slips if they want, I don't care what clothes you where,

Seriously I have heard that we should get there early, anyone got 1st hand experience of "the pod "



>> Edited by G Man on Sunday 22 September 06:29

>> Edited by G Man on Sunday 22 September 06:30

[G Man]

I'm still going on Sunday do we have any other takers for some burnt rubber

[G Man]

All

The RWYB starts at 10am - gates open at 8am

I thought I would rock up about 9 am and sign in.

You need a helmet and driving licence !!!!

Gareth

" I love the smell of burning rubber in the morning !"

[G Man]

Why do I think that every traffic light on the way will be treated as an unofficial practice start !!!


What routes are we going, my best route will be M40, A43 past Silverstone ( very appropriate ) to Northampton

[G Man]

Gentlemen

Spoke to the factory today the record is 10.9 secs at Santa Pod in a 500 BHP Sport Mark II by Ted

It's there for someone !!

Weather forcast cloudy and dry

"Gentlemen start your engines"

[G Man]

quote:
10.9 is pretty respectable Did you get the terminal speed too?

James

No Terminal speed - just visited the ultimaclub.com and re-read their Santapod trip. Best time 11.77 sec terminal speed 124 mph - written by a gent call Paul !!!

[G Man]

I have my Camcorder today, I will try to get a run on an mpeg format, full chat 1/4 mile

Heres hoping !!

[G Man]

6 Ultimas turned up throughout the day

4 GTR 1 sport and a Canam

Best time was in the mid 11 ( not by me )

I knocked out a 12.22 and a 11.8, this is not as easy as I thought. No video: I only got 2 runs in,itwas a right off past 11 am there were 100's of cars

Great lunch with Bluesatin ( bacon and egg roll)

Overstayed by an 1hour talking to GTRClive, took a wife beating for that.

What I have learnt:

I need a limit slip diff for my car, I never managed to get the car of line, I took ages to get the power down, then the car flew, terminal speed 130 mph.
The gear change from 2 to 3 was a problem, I missed it twice

I can see future upgrades of kinsler injection and Motec M48 with traction control and a sequential G50 box from Gemini