OCUK RWYB Drag Meet 2 - Saturday March 25th - Santa Pod Raceway

Just a quick reminder.

Meet at Tesco at 8:30 to leave for around 8:45 to head over to Pod

Wellingborough Tesco
Tunnels Mill Road
NN82EF
 
Suspension settings sounds right from my Admittedly limited experience.

Can probably get away with dropping the rear tyre pressure down considerably, I've always ran the AD08Rs on mine down at 16psi cold (Although regular pressures are only 26psi all round on an MX5 anyway)
 
Three runs at 13.0x for me followed by a 12.91 @ 111mph. Personal target achieved

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Epic day.

Lots of PBs smashed, great weather and huge amounts of excitement from everyone. Especially when it came to everyone coming to pillage anything that weighed anything from my car for that last run of the day
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
I'll sort videos that I took ASAP, but just a thought from me around my own car's performance relative to others.

A Focus RS mk3 with 350bhp will do the 1/4 mile in around 13.3sec standard.

My STi dyno'd at 279bhp standard and ran a 13.3sec 1/4 mile.

Now my STi has 350bhp and ran a 12.4sec 1/4 mile. Obviously modified vs standard car so not really comparable, but I thought it was interesting.. :)
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Perspective is a wonderful thing. I've just done some searching around and MotorTrend tested the 2016 5.0 Mustang GT @ 12.9 110mph for the 1/4.
 
Gibbo said:
The stock Mustang does the quarter in 12.8-13.1@107-110mph typically.

If I ever launch mine correctly and cut a sub 2s 60ft I stand a good chance of hitting 11's but that takes two things. Someone who is very good at drag racing and has no mechanical sympathy.
I was able to do a 115mph terminal and was still not flat out for the whole run or rowing the gears as quick as possible, other owners running same mods as mine are crossing line at 117-122mph, it just takes practice or some big burn outs and getting a lucky run. :D
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Just in case it came across in anyway I wasn't making a dig at you.

As you say, to get good times you general need to drive balls to the wall with very little sympathy. I'd say there's a good couple of tenths if not more making keep it flat to floor for the entire run and shifting a bit faster.

The big improvement in my times was when I started to shifting closer to 7500rpm rather than 7000
 
Gibbo said:
That was his first run, when he came over and spoke they were using the strip for some fine tuning of the map, it was on high boost and he said something about ignition cut and hence bailing.
He was later running high 13's on low boost which I think he said was about 280HP and at the end of the day on high boost which he said was circa 380HP he did a 12.8s and obviously had a lot more in it. But if its around 350HP in a burnt out shell it must weigh next to nothing so one would expect it once mapped and running right to be pulling some good numbers, think its terminal was around 112mph so it was moving.
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I was sure he'd already made at least one pass by that point? I didn't race him till after lunch.

I wouldn't have though an Elise weighed that much? It shouldn't need that much more power than the MX5 for 12.8 @ 112
 
I'll give Lee credit where credit is due and although his approach to the whole build has been a bit ham fisted and not thought out enough. He has actually built a car that's capable if he finally listens and get some tuition
 
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