What will be LuckyP's best ET do you think?

[GTWayne]

Right, lets take a guess at how P will fair by way of a quick ET and terminal speed shall we?

I say he will do 11.3 @ 126mph (the winner can have a box of chocolate fingers that I have been saving for just such an occasion)

[m3desmo]

GTWayne said:

Right, lets take a guess at how P will fair by way of a quick ET and terminal speed shall we?

I say he will do 11.3 @ 126mph (the winner can have a box of chocolate fingers that I have been saving for just such an occasion)

11.5s @ 132mph - I'll pass on the choccy fingers if they're yours thanks Wayne.

[slinky]

hmmm.. 550Hp, street tires, manual shift...

I'd say 11.2 @ 125

slinky
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[luckyp]

11.99 and 125mph the target. Let's see......

Lucky out.

[GTWayne]

My 320BHP e36 track BMW ran 12.69 @ 112 earlier in the year so I don't think you will have any problem breaking into the 11'S. Gods speed and obviously no need to say it but 'be Lucky P',(makes me sound like a Gypo, that reminds me, I must remember to take my lucky heather with me later when I go to price that tarmac drive for the little old lady that I met whilst knocking on doors touting for work yesterday).

[DHGTR]

as its p~~~~~~ down today i would say 20 secs@70mph and i bet his tyres dont smoke.

sorry pete, nothing personal, just looking out the window at the weather.

[tuxman]

i hope the weather is better were he is its chucking it down here. a lot will depend on how well he gets off the line a bit of wheelspin and he will be in the 12 but a good launch will see ..........11.2....128mph . go for it . simon

[GTWayne]

Not for one moment did I consider changeable weather conditions, BLAST, I was looking forward to those chocolate fingers as well!

[luckyp]

Hi honey, I'm home......

I have pink slips (and white ones)

Who has won the choccy fingers?.............

[GTWayne]

Well........how did it go? What were the times?

[GTWayne]

Waiting.........................?

[GTWayne]

For Christs sake come on man!, my fingers are starting to melt

[luckyp]

Left here at 6am, got to 'The Pod' (oh check me out!) at 8am. Dry, then. Just as things were gonna kick off it pished down and stayed that way 'til 2pm. Then it eased, and the the track was swept and blown with a giant hair drier!!

All in all, 8 runs. Best was run 7:

Reaction 0.121
60ft 1.972
330ft 5.032
1/8 ET 7.564
1/8 MPH 97.89
1000' ET 9.702
1/4 ET 11.629
1/4 MPH 120.06

Is this OK?

[GTWayne]

Well respectable P but with a little more practice I feel you could go a few tenths quicker. What kind of set up did you find optimum?

[tuxman]

well done P,sounds like you had a long day !!!! great fun though i was well buzzed when i got home . simon


luckyp ............ tuxman

reaction 0.121 ...... 0.302
60ft 1.972 .......... 2.051
330ft 5.032 ......... 5.145
1/8 ET 7.564 ...... .. 7.662
1/8 MPH 97.89 ....... 99.36 mph
1000' ET 9.702 ...... 9.782
1/4 ET 11.629 ....... 11.669
1/4 MPH 120.06 ...... 123.63 mph#


pretty dam close i would say ,must be the awsome build quality.

Edited by tuxman on Saturday 2nd September 21:17

Edited by tuxman on Saturday 2nd September 21:18

[luckyp]

To be fair Wayne, it was all a bit trial and error. Met a couple of guys who showed me the ropes, in a old gold Opal Kadet with a dirty girt big Rover in it. He showed me a clean set of heals for the first couple of runs, whilst I was performing 15 second 1/4mile rev limiter burnouts!! (after the first two runs I wanted to go home ) But then I just calmed the starting throttle down and just squeezed the power on gently.

With helmet on I couldn't really hear the revs - so lucky that my rev counter just happens to be right in the line of forward vision, not off to one side!!! He-he!!

I did drop the tyre pressure from 18 to 15 and thats what the last few sub 12 runs were done on.

Rear shocks backed off to 1 click and ride height, 110/160.

All runs done with engine at 80deg C.

All on video......some time next week.

Lucky

[luckyp]

Simon, what BHP/Torque is your motor, just to give me a feeling for how I did?

[GTWayne]

Brilliant! Only trouble is, with all this excitement I have inadvertently been tucking in to the chocolate fingers but by my reckoning Des was closest and seeing how he said because they were my fingers he would give it a miss, I don't feel to bad about it. All in all it would seem we have collectively had a good day, ULTIMA RULES!!!

[tuxman]

P , engine makes .389bhp 402lb/ft at 4300 rpm would make a bit more on a cool day maybe 10% , can-am only ways 970kg with me in it so i know there is a saving there but the times i ran were better than expected , i have also been told that DW rolling road reads a bit low but i don,t know if thats true . simon

Edited by tuxman on Saturday 2nd September 21:29

[GTWayne]

P, do us a favour seeing as your speaking to Simon and tell him what is the ONLY colour that an Ultima should be painted!