1/4 mile embarrassment
Discussion
Ended up at Shakespears raceway for the RWYB yesterday and got creamed by:
1. Pug 106
2.)Pug 305
3.)John Cooper S Mini
I did end up spinning up too much once or twice but my 60 times were indicating that I should have been getting low 15s but I was constantly in the high 15 (15.9) or mid 16s. Now I put it down to my crap skills but also I reckon that the gear throw doesnt help at all.
Timing the throws I reckon each one takes close to 1 second (ok this doesnt equate to a second lost) but add the total up and it must come close to a second in total? Am def getting the ripshifter to see what difference it makes for the next time.
The car behaved well but I found that when I came to leave, when I turned on the engine, the check light came on twice so left the car for a while and it didnt reappear. After a similar experience in my 350z that time it was due to the 02 sensor in the exhaust, the car didnt go into recovery mode but i took it easy on the way home (will hook the odbii reader up later to see the codes) but is this a common thing on the ro's?
1. Pug 106
2.)Pug 305
3.)John Cooper S Mini
I did end up spinning up too much once or twice but my 60 times were indicating that I should have been getting low 15s but I was constantly in the high 15 (15.9) or mid 16s. Now I put it down to my crap skills but also I reckon that the gear throw doesnt help at all.
Timing the throws I reckon each one takes close to 1 second (ok this doesnt equate to a second lost) but add the total up and it must come close to a second in total? Am def getting the ripshifter to see what difference it makes for the next time.
The car behaved well but I found that when I came to leave, when I turned on the engine, the check light came on twice so left the car for a while and it didnt reappear. After a similar experience in my 350z that time it was due to the 02 sensor in the exhaust, the car didnt go into recovery mode but i took it easy on the way home (will hook the odbii reader up later to see the codes) but is this a common thing on the ro's?
I figured you were probably a PH'er when I saw the car rolling around the pits..
Next time you're there.. come say hi..
Here's a video of some of our escapades yesterday --> Video
slinky
587racing.com
Next time you're there.. come say hi..
Here's a video of some of our escapades yesterday --> Video
slinky
587racing.com
ringram said:
Well at least you are the first one to make their time public.
An excellent precedent and leads into a nice suggestion for a future day out.
An excellent precedent and leads into a nice suggestion for a future day out.
LIES LIES they burn my ears lol! Just kidding but we posted our times last year from Santa Pod, with the Sport Pac we got 13.9 at 103mph and with focus pac we got 13.5 at 107mph
This was on a CV8 BTW...slinky I must have seen your car parked up right on the entry to the pit area, was yours the one parked not too far from where I was (mate was with a purple skyline)
Nige, I dont want to do the diff, drag strip is just a bit of fun! I am certain that the ripshifter will certainly help, it seemed no matter what I did hooking into 2nd was where things bog down. I put it down to my cackhandedness but that throw is about 5 miles long, I actually finished the 1/4 mile quicker than I could get into 2nd from 1st.
Rag thanks, I think!
Nige, I dont want to do the diff, drag strip is just a bit of fun! I am certain that the ripshifter will certainly help, it seemed no matter what I did hooking into 2nd was where things bog down. I put it down to my cackhandedness but that throw is about 5 miles long, I actually finished the 1/4 mile quicker than I could get into 2nd from 1st.
Rag thanks, I think!
stigcv8 said:
slinky I must have seen your car parked up right on the entry to the pit area, was yours the one parked not too far from where I was (mate was with a purple skyline)
Yup, as you came in, we had two cars parked next to a large white trailer.. the dragster and the autograss car..
I'm afraid I didn't see you run... car looked lovely though!
Dan_S V8 said:
ringram said:
Well at least you are the first one to make their time public.
An excellent precedent and leads into a nice suggestion for a future day out.
An excellent precedent and leads into a nice suggestion for a future day out.
LIES LIES they burn my ears lol! Just kidding but we posted our times last year from Santa Pod, with the Sport Pac we got 13.9 at 103mph and with focus pac we got 13.5 at 107mph
This was on a CV8 BTW...'scuse me, I posted mine on September 22nd.....
Recent trip to 1/4 mile at Crail, Fife.
With Wortec Sportpac, I couldn't better 1/8th 76.1mph, 1/4 mileTV 101.8, ET 14.532sec with 6 runs. Are these reasonable figures?
TC off for burnout, TC on from the lights. But even with TC the tyres can still light-up.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/a6
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/84
Ford Consul has NA iron small block Chevy + good cam and Auto-box.
Edited by bigwheel on Monday 16th October 03:41
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