RE: Santa Pod Sunday Service 07/05

[Shrek595]

jason61c said:

Great to see that a 650s is beat by a merc coupe and modded 240z.

Bet he was happy

If you saw how bad my starts were there was a lot more shame to be had if I was bothered . To be honest apart from managing to get it go forward there doesn't seem to be a lot of fun when the car is completely controlled by the launch control and computer timed gear shifts. Without a clutch it isn't very involving with no real sense of personal achievement but it was fun to try once and see all the other cars running.

[TrickyTrevM5]

Has any one heard from the unlucky chap in the E46 M3 ? who appeared to break something big in his diff?

[jason61c]

Shrek595 said:

If you saw how bad my starts were there was a lot more shame to be had if I was bothered . To be honest apart from managing to get it go forward there doesn't seem to be a lot of fun when the car is completely controlled by the launch control and computer timed gear shifts. Without a clutch it isn't very involving with no real sense of personal achievement but it was fun to try once and see all the other cars running.

fast terminal speed though.

can you switch everything off to try? were all your runs consistent, as in, that's the computers doing best effort?

[j4ck100]

thunderpigeon said:

I noticed that. After the 60ft mark, you were gone - no way I could keep up. I got my little win for the day tho! I could do well at 60ft drag racing, but cant see that idea taking off.

My issue was one-tyre-fire. Tried to warm the tyres up before every run, but mostly spun one wheel!

It's also interesting how close your times are to my 330d e46 last year with ~250bhp, iirc you said you have around 200bhp now?

[j4ck100]

CamL said:

Sorry guys - standard daily

Can I ask what you do for a living? Your garage history is most impressive!

[alex0]

Shrek595 said:

If you saw how bad my starts were there was a lot more shame to be had if I was bothered . To be honest apart from managing to get it go forward there doesn't seem to be a lot of fun when the car is completely controlled by the launch control and computer timed gear shifts. Without a clutch it isn't very involving with no real sense of personal achievement but it was fun to try once and see all the other cars running.

Think I went with you on one run, I wondered why you weren't in front!

Few more runs you'd get in low 11s if not 10s..

[thunderpigeon]

j4ck100 said:

thunderpigeon said:

I noticed that. After the 60ft mark, you were gone - no way I could keep up. I got my little win for the day tho! I could do well at 60ft drag racing, but cant see that idea taking off.

My issue was one-tyre-fire. Tried to warm the tyres up before every run, but mostly spun one wheel!

It's also interesting how close your times are to my 330d e46 last year with ~250bhp, iirc you said you have around 200bhp now?

200ish. Its the torque which is most impressive, 400+ Nm. Makes everyday driving so easy. I did look at the 330d times and noticed how close they were. I did run a 14.6 last year, but on a much warmer day. Is the 250hp remapped from the 180 or 200?

I'm tempted to upgrade the intercooler and get a sports cat/decat but the gains aren't worth the cost. Would rather get a more exciting car to drive than spend more money on it.

It should be running slightly better as I've just had the EGR replaced and shoved many cleaning products through the system in the last 3 months. Also gone to premium tyres, but wider with same profile as stock. More grip but more to rotate.

[TrickyTrevM5]

[quote=CamL]Sorry guys - standard daily

That thing just hooked up and set off.

Love it.

It was like some sort of comedy from the 80s where they sped up the video footage.... top pedaling sir!

Edited by TrickyTrevM5 on Tuesday 9th May 12:36

[Prohibiting]

Looked like a great fun day. Gutted I chose not to go to this. Hopefully PH will organised the same again next year?

[CaptainRAVE]

RedlineDrifter said:

Here's a few pics I took;

Not often a McLaren can get upstaged

The E63S was an absolute beast. What a car!

Shrek595 said:

If you saw how bad my starts were there was a lot more shame to be had if I was bothered . To be honest apart from managing to get it go forward there doesn't seem to be a lot of fun when the car is completely controlled by the launch control and computer timed gear shifts. Without a clutch it isn't very involving with no real sense of personal achievement but it was fun to try once and see all the other cars running.

They weren't great (especially in reverse), but it was great to see someone actually running one of these on the strip, so hats off to you tbh. I did enjoy watching you reel the other car in following you going the wrong way for a moment.

Edited by CaptainRAVE on Tuesday 9th May 12:41

[Dandanfings]

Great day out, enjoyed myself even more this year despite being in a diesel 3 series!
I did manage a 12.63 though!

Been slaving away editing a video, should be up later tonight.

[CamL]

1) Press both pedals as hard as possible
2) Close eyes
3) Take foot off left pedal

TrickyTrevM5 said:

CamL said:

Sorry guys - standard daily

That thing just hooked up and set off.

Love it.

It was like some sort of comedy from the 80s where they sped up the video footage.... top pedaling sir!

Edited by TrickyTrevM5 on Tuesday 9th May 12:36

[Kasher89]

Had a cracking day, first Sunday service but I'm sure many will follow.

Adding my 2 wheeled effort, with all 44 horses giving a pleasing 14.21 @ 92.5mph.

Second fastest bike on the day too...


1. CamL - Porsche 991Turbo S - 60FT: 1.8568 - ET: 11.0971 - MPH: 127.21
2. Nik Attard/ PH Staff - Mercedes-AMG E63 S 603 - 60FT: 1.8576 - ET: 11.3214 - MPH: 122.88
3. Tel240z - Datsun 240z (M3 S54 supercharged) - 60FT: 1.8566 - ET: 11.5353 - MPH: 129.93
4. Shrek595 - McLaren 650s - 60FT: 2.2328 - ET: 11.6048 - MPH: 132.45
5. Volkschris - Golf R (mapped?) - 60FT: 1.8380 - ET: 11.6805 - MPH: 117.93
6. nigelpugh7 - Caterham 620R - 60FT: 2.0328 - ET : 12.2317 - MPH : 110.96
7. Liamst - M140i - 60FT: 1.98 - ET: 12.27 - MPH: 114.79
8. Jakeantoniou - Audi B5 S4 - 60FT: 1.72 - ET: 12.42 - MPH: 114.05
9. Ozmikeuk - M135i (JB4) - 60FT: 1.9769 - ET: 12.60 - MPH: 109.52
10. Volkschris - Octavia Estate (mods, nitrous, 400hp) - 60FT: ?.?? - ET: 12.679 - MPH: 121.86 (time in the video)
11. j4ck100 - Mitsubishi Evo X FQ-300 SST (360bhp remap) - 60FT: 2.1559 - ET: 12.74 - MPH: 108.49
12. alex0 - BMW F80 M3 - 60FT: 2.2774 - ET: 12.88 - MPH: 116.87
13. Miglia 888 - CLK 500 Sport Cabriolet (no mods) - 60FT: 1.9510 - ET: 12.9033 - MPH: 106.20
14. JonnyCutCorners - Impreza (mods) (camera car vs. Octavia) - 60FT: ?.?? - ET: 13.04 - MPH: ???.??
15. Redline Drifter - M135i LCI (no mods) - 60FT: 2.1869 - ET: 13.10 - MPH: 108.31
16. H20 DJY - 997 C2S - 60FT: 2.09 - ET: 13.23 - MPH: 108.45
17. Armagreggon - 996.1 C2 - 60FT: 1.9177 - ET: 13.4223 - MPH: 104.79
18. Si_xsi - Golf R32 mk5 - 60FT: ?.?? - ET: 14.2 - MPH: 96
19. Kasher89 - KTM 390 Duke - 60FT: 2.25 - ET: 14.21 - MPH: 92.57
20. j4ck100 - E46 330d (mapped) - 60FT: 2.26 - ET: 14.65 - MPH: 95.9
21. Thunderpigeon - BMW 120d (mapped) - 60FT: 2.1659 - ET: 14.7529 - MPH: 93.52
22. Sf_Manta - BMW 330i Touring (not quite stock) - 60FT: 2.23 - ET: 14.7981 - MPH 93.73
23. NJ72 - RX8 192 - 60FT: ?.?? - ET: 15.025 - MPH: ??.??
24. EdHall697 - Clio 197 (mods) - 60FT: 2.6021 - ET: 15.5747 - MPH: 89.98
25. Miglia 888 - Twingo Mk3 TCe 90 (no mods) - 60FT: 2.36 - ET: 18.15 - MPH: 74.44
26. LewG - Ferret (battle-readiness mods) - 60FT: 4.6612 - ET: 29.6018 - MPH: 44.45
27. Blipi - Trojan - 30 secs approx. to 1/8th mile halfway timing beam

[Shrek595]

jason61c said:

fast terminal speed though.

can you switch everything off to try? were all your runs consistent, as in, that's the computers doing best effort?

Thank you for the interest, I've hopefully attached a picture of the timings for the 5 runs I did.



I've only had the car since November and only read the bit of the manual about 'Launch Control' on the Sunday morning so I'm definitely no expert.

The first run came up with 'Launch Control not available' as I screwed up part of the procedure and ignoring my typically crap reaction time the first 60ft after just flooring the throttle came up at 2.50s. For runs 2,3 and 5 I managed to trigger launch control but on the second run, the other car was long gone before I'd managed to finish the procedure and start moving. For the runs with Launch Control working the first 60ft times were in the range 2.11s to 2.23s so the Launch Control is as I would expect faster at getting away.

Run 4 I overshot the staging lightst while trying to left foot brake (Launch Control needs brake fully depressed with left foot and accelerator full to floor with right foot). I then reversed back and while trying to swap feet forgot to switch to 'D', luckily Launch Control doesn't engage in reverse so after a bit of confusion and going backwards initially it hit 60ft in 4.7s but it did go on to reach 131mph.

Looking at other cars posted above the car obviously 'relatively' struggles to get off the line but then does well once going. I don't know if the setting of the 'active' modes for the car would make a difference and I very much doubt if I was manually controlling upshifts I would have done better. On the way home I realised I hadn't tried different settings for either the 'Powertrain or Handling controls' leaving both I think in Sport mode, it may have been a little faster with track mode selected looking at the manual.

The car was on P-Zero Corsa tyres (with the rears close to needing replacement) and I certainly wasn't brave enough to try warming up the tyres prior to any of the runs.

Overall as I mentioned previously it is a bit of a soulless experience with everything being automated once I got the hang of the launch control the only slight fun would be trying to improve on the reaction times (which obviously wouldn't be too hard ...).

[Volkschris]

Heres a link to the Skoda running the 12.4 if you guys fancy a watch


https://youtu.be/9BCm9P0aVAg

[j4ck100]

thunderpigeon said:

200ish. Its the torque which is most impressive, 400+ Nm. Makes everyday driving so easy. I did look at the 330d times and noticed how close they were. I did run a 14.6 last year, but on a much warmer day. Is the 250hp remapped from the 180 or 200?

I'm tempted to upgrade the intercooler and get a sports cat/decat but the gains aren't worth the cost. Would rather get a more exciting car to drive than spend more money on it.

It should be running slightly better as I've just had the EGR replaced and shoved many cleaning products through the system in the last 3 months. Also gone to premium tyres, but wider with same profile as stock. More grip but more to rotate.

Mapped from 204hp. 6 speed manual. Reckon it's the weight that did it in, 1650kg according to the V5!

[dibbleyuk]

I believe I ran the fastest time of the day 11.094 at 126.62mph in my Nissan GTR

Edited by dibbleyuk on Tuesday 9th May 14:46

[thunderpigeon]

j4ck100 said:

thunderpigeon said:

200ish. Its the torque which is most impressive, 400+ Nm. Makes everyday driving so easy. I did look at the 330d times and noticed how close they were. I did run a 14.6 last year, but on a much warmer day. Is the 250hp remapped from the 180 or 200?

I'm tempted to upgrade the intercooler and get a sports cat/decat but the gains aren't worth the cost. Would rather get a more exciting car to drive than spend more money on it.

It should be running slightly better as I've just had the EGR replaced and shoved many cleaning products through the system in the last 3 months. Also gone to premium tyres, but wider with same profile as stock. More grip but more to rotate.

Mapped from 204hp. 6 speed manual. Reckon it's the weight that did it in, 1650kg according to the V5!

About 200kg difference then! That'll make the difference. I was crossing the line in 4th gear with about 500rpm to go till 4th. No idea if ratios and gearboxes are shared

[Dandanfings]

Here you go:

https://youtu.be/DxGR_a8oFXM

[Ozmikeuk]

Dandanfings said:

Here you go:

https://youtu.be/DxGR_a8oFXM

Hey there,

YouTube says video not available