Ran my first eight

Ran my first eight

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ArnieVXR

Original Poster:

2,449 posts

198 months

Monday 8th July 2013
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A great day at York saw a consistent series of 9.7, 9.5, 9.4 and 9.4. The boost controller was playing up in the heat, so the time between each run was a bit stretched. John Sleath was tweaking the map, as we started pushing 20psi. The last run of the day saw the boost controller stuck on 16psi, which made for an interesting launch. The sixty foot dropped into the 1.3s, while the ET was an amazing (well for me) 8.9 @ 156. Stopping was interesting, so I'll be wearing a parachute in August.

Hoping to start racing properly at the next outing, so watch out all you people with one second response times, there's a new kid in town...

dragfan85

107 posts

162 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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Well done on the 8 sec pass mate ... im a massive drag racing nut and abit of a anorak to be honest ... and I live in the north east and have a street bike gixxer k5 just wondering when the nxt run what u bring is on at york ..would love to put my bike down the pod but I go there to watch all the big boys and girls so york would be perfect .... carl

ArnieVXR

Original Poster:

2,449 posts

198 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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Next RWYB is 25-26 August. I should be there. There was a good turn out on the bikes on Sunday. I reckon August will be good too. You'll get loads of time and the queues are always short :-)

See you up there.

firewalker

366 posts

196 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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Congrats, and it was a good day all round at York I think.
It's a world away from the Pod but I've really warmed to it's grass roots atmosphere over the years.

PanzerCommander

5,026 posts

233 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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Well done, you should be able to go a bit faster than you did too, the density altitude was rather high at the weekend, I know I was anything up to couple of tenths down from what my car normally runs at York. The track was good but as far as the engine was concerned it was like running on a treadmil in a sauna.

HD Adam

5,155 posts

199 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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Well done on the new PB.

Are you running it at the Mopars or are you giving it a miss after last years, er, shenanigans?

ArnieVXR

Original Poster:

2,449 posts

198 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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HD Adam said:
Well done on the new PB.

Are you running it at the Mopars or are you giving it a miss after last years, er, shenanigans?
Sadly, those people in my house insisted on a family holiday at that time frown

MajorLucky

177 posts

179 months

Tuesday 9th July 2013
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Well done bud, hope to see you racing real soon