OCUK RWYB Drag Meet 3 - Saturday September 16th - Santa Pod Raceway

I'm really looking forward to this one. Seems like it'll be a great turn out.

Hoping to get below 15sec this time. Watched the japshow live feed on fb some of the cars were doing really slow 1/4 times. It was quite surprising.
 
I'm hardly a pro driver but there's simply far more people that can't drive their fast car properly compared to those who can. Plenty of MX5s out there with more power than mine, very few of them have either the powerband/driveability or the balls to launch them/row gears hard enough (Unless I'm proven wrong two weeks after we all hit Pod anyway)
 
Frozennova said:
I'm hardly a pro driver but there's simply far more people that can't drive their fast car properly compared to those who can. Plenty of MX5s out there with more power than mine, very few of them have either the powerband/driveability or the balls to launch them/row gears hard enough (Unless I'm proven wrong two weeks after we all hit Pod anyway)
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I fit in the category of not having the balls to launch it hard or row the gears hard enough. It is my car, too much mechanical sympathy for it and the fact its more or less brand new and snapping and breaking stuff does not come cheap and I don't particular want it off the road or even worse having to get it recovered home to a garage. I am the kind of person who would be far quicker in an auto off the line as they launch hard and perfect the changes for you, but its not a drag car its my car and I wanted a manual as the auto option is a bit meh. I am happy to just look at my terminal speeds as it gives you a good idea of what the car could do with a balls out launch and smashing the gear box up. ;)
 
Towards the end of my runs at the last meet I went dgaf mode. Car Survived but that was because of the less boost is was running. This time I may just go a little easier and see how it fairs out.
 
Gibbo said:
I fit in the category of not having the balls to launch it hard or row the gears hard enough. It is my car, too much mechanical sympathy for it and the fact its more or less brand new and snapping and breaking stuff does not come cheap and I don't particular want it off the road or even worse having to get it recovered home to a garage. I am the kind of person who would be far quicker in an auto off the line as they launch hard and perfect the changes for you, but its not a drag car its my car and I wanted a manual as the auto option is a bit meh. I am happy to just look at my terminal speeds as it gives you a good idea of what the car could do with a balls out launch and smashing the gear box up. ;)
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I have a bit of luxury in that department. I'm 15 miles from Santa Pod and gearboxes are £20 for an MX5, if they weren't so cheap I'd probably have the same outlook as you.

I also managed to grenade my first gearbox on the street on my way to Shakespeare :D
 
Frozennova said:
I have a bit of luxury in that department. I'm 15 miles from Santa Pod and gearboxes are £20 for an MX5, if they weren't so cheap I'd probably have the same outlook as you.

I also managed to grenade my first gearbox on the street on my way to Shakespeare :D
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Half shafts are the weakness, guys in the US strictly don't use LC or launch hard on drag strip as they just tend to snap them, at which point your stranded, about $500 for a set of stockers or $2000 for uprated FRPP ones. Gearboxes seem pretty strong, just the chocolate half shafts mainly the issue and its one part I have no interest in upgrading as I am not drag racing every weekend or trying to set the fastest times.
 
Seems pretty bizarre that people are snapping half shafts on a stock car when you've got people like Mac laying 800bhp and whatever daft torque figure down without problems (Unless he's got upgraded shafts?)
 
Gibbo said:
Half shafts are the weakness, guys in the US strictly don't use LC or launch hard on drag strip as they just tend to snap them, at which point your stranded, about $500 for a set of stockers or $2000 for uprated FRPP ones. Gearboxes seem pretty strong, just the chocolate half shafts mainly the issue and its one part I have no interest in upgrading as I am not drag racing every weekend or trying to set the fastest times.
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you imagine breaking a half shaft at 100mph going down the drag strip, you'd be straight into the guard rails or even worst, roll over :eek:
 
Frozennova said:
Seems pretty bizarre that people are snapping half shafts on a stock car when you've got people like Mac laying 800bhp and whatever daft torque figure down without problems (Unless he's got upgraded shafts?)
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you just cant tell when anything will break.......the same can apply to your propshaft, the leaf spring hangers or even the steering rack etc (esp with an older muscle car)
 
Mal X said:
you just cant tell when anything will break.......the same can apply to your propshaft, the leaf spring hangers or even the steering rack etc (esp with an older muscle car)
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You absolutely can, thinks like that fail in a very repeatable fashion.
 
Frozennova said:
Seems pretty bizarre that people are snapping half shafts on a stock car when you've got people like Mac laying 800bhp and whatever daft torque figure down without problems (Unless he's got upgraded shafts?)
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His are uprated. :)
Hopefully he will make this one as I'd like to see him crack a 130mph terminal, think at Shakespear he hit around 125mph with a broken thumb and the factory tune with stock headers. He is now custom tuned with proper headers so it should in theory be capable on 10's at around 135mph, though the last time we had a play I beat him to 100mph as he just smoked the first three gears. :D

The stock shafts snap when extreme wheel hop happens, most drivers know that if it starts wheel hopping, axle tramping, get out of it quick, some keep their foot planted at which point they can snap. Using LC at drag strip on any kind of tyre is pretty much guaranteed to snap stock shafts.
 
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