RE: Red Victor 3 Finally Nails Santa Pod
Monday 12th September 2011
PH-supported drag car, Red Victor 3 has finally completed its first weekend of action.
Red Victor 3 Finally Nails Santa Pod
The PH smiley tears up the strip (with a certain Pro-Modified drag machine propelling it, of course...)
PHer Andy Frost and the RV3 team managed a 7.2secs, 199.8mph quarter-mile in the Euro finals at Santa Pod last weekend.
The debut set of competitive runs might have fallen short of what Andy plans for RV3 (he aims to get the 3000bhp Vauxhall running 6.5-second quarters), but following a spot of nasty engine trouble on the car's first time out a few months back (Involving a popped camshaft), tho get the car running so quickly so soon is a damn fine achievement.
Well done to all at Red Victor Racing - we can't wait to see the results of your next outing!
Discussion
Mr Gear said:
Looks like it's running nicely, but 5's are a looooong way off. Let alone 5.0's! Surely an editorial error?
Good work team, it's running well at least. Keep chipping away.
Er *cough* 6.5s, not 5s.... Good work team, it's running well at least. Keep chipping away.
My brain's not working properly today... http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyI...
Riggers said:
We've written that three times now and Andy hasn't pointed out an error 
Care to enlighten us? 
From RV3 thread: Care to enlighten us? redvictor
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dudleybloke said:
has the cause of the engine failure been established yet?
Andys reply:
Exhaust valve guides..
white90 said:
Riggers said:
We've written that three times now and Andy hasn't pointed out an error Care to enlighten us?
From RV3 thread: Care to enlighten us? redvictor
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Monday 22nd August quote quote all
dudleybloke said:
has the cause of the engine failure been established yet?
Andys reply:
Exhaust valve guides..
Riggers said:
Er *cough* 6.5s, not 5s....
My brain's not working properly today... http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyI...
That's more believable... and achievable!My brain's not working properly today... http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyI...
I saw that run - very impressive!
...and well done guys for getting the car sorted and running well. If it can run 5 secs that will be some acheivment too....and some of those top fuel boys might be knocking on your door for some advice! Seriously though, when you get into the 6.5's it will deeply impressive...and all from a car that's road legal!
...and well done guys for getting the car sorted and running well. If it can run 5 secs that will be some acheivment too....and some of those top fuel boys might be knocking on your door for some advice! Seriously though, when you get into the 6.5's it will deeply impressive...and all from a car that's road legal!
Certainly not sleeping. There's no one in the other lane and this was a licensing run tagged on to the end of a qualifying session, so Andy I'm sure, was more concerned about his staging procedure and building the correct and consistent launch revs/boost than he was about trying to cut a light which in these circumstances was irrelevant. Shame he didn't make the field but there's a long way to go yet to find the predicted 6.5's. As for those still going on and on about RV3 running 5's, they clearly have no concept of what it takes to run a 5 and how "different" Andy is doing things in order to maintain some street legality.
TheMighty said:
Certainly not sleeping. There's no one in the other lane and this was a licensing run tagged on to the end of a qualifying session, so Andy I'm sure, was more concerned about his staging procedure and building the correct and consistent launch revs/boost than he was about trying to cut a light which in these circumstances was irrelevant. Shame he didn't make the field but there's a long way to go yet to find the predicted 6.5's. As for those still going on and on about RV3 running 5's, they clearly have no concept of what it takes to run a 5 and how "different" Andy is doing things in order to maintain some street legality.
Understood, thanks. So was the time irrelevant then?Matt Harper said:
TheMighty said:
Certainly not sleeping. There's no one in the other lane and this was a licensing run tagged on to the end of a qualifying session, so Andy I'm sure, was more concerned about his staging procedure and building the correct and consistent launch revs/boost than he was about trying to cut a light which in these circumstances was irrelevant. Shame he didn't make the field but there's a long way to go yet to find the predicted 6.5's. As for those still going on and on about RV3 running 5's, they clearly have no concept of what it takes to run a 5 and how "different" Andy is doing things in order to maintain some street legality.
Understood, thanks. So was the time irrelevant then?Apologies for the shouting at the end of the video, as I'm sure you can imagine, I was rather pleased with the run...
We had arrived at the point where we were running short of passes in which we would be able to get our licence so opted for a safe strategy, launching in 2nd gear (for which we had previous data) to ensure that we could get off the line without too much potential for wheelspin/shake..
Andy sat on the line to ensure that he built sufficient boost for the pass to work, as you can see it did exactly what we wanted it to do for that pass..
We are very happy with the results of the weekend, the team aimed for Andy to licence and we did that, we even qualified 18th in a 22 car field.. What's more important is that we put the car back in the truck in one piece!
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