Soldato
I know many have followed my (quite slowly progressing) thread here, well It's 98% finished now all taxed insured and MOT'd.
Well I've decided to do Volkswagen drag racing in it, well I may as well get the most out of it as I've been working on it so damn long!!
The season consists of 7 meets, 5 of which are at santapod which is 5 mins from my house, so well handy, the other 2 are at shakespeare county raceway, everyone has to do at least one of the shakey meets to qualify for the years points.
april 2-4 - easter thunderball @ pod
april 23-35 - big bang @ pod
may 1-3 - spring nationals @ shakey
june 19-20 - summer nationals @ pod
july 23-25 - bug jam @ pod
august 28-30 - open sports nationals @ shakey
september 25-26 - national finals @ pod
Car & me not ready for easter so this weekend 'big bang' will be my 1st of the year.
You've got sportsman, pro and AE classes, sportsman if your car is slower that 12.99 for the 1/4 mile pro if your quicker and then alternative engine.
Although many have the opinion that my car would be in pro class I've done a couple of RWYB's and have fairly consistantly been 14.5~ish so a good 1.5 secs off target, I was untill the rolling road I did this monday getting a bit annoyed about this as I know I'm new to it (I've never thrown ANYTHING down the 1/4 mile) and on my last (trophey winning trip) I had 'judgie' a very well respected vw racer & owner of RNJ Motorsport giving me help & advice / along with a maybe overly healthy dose of mick tacking, was failing to see how technique improvements would gain me over 1.5 secs (.5 - 1 maybe).
As mentioned "until the rolling road" where firstly car was running like a container of pooh in the morning to work, basically running on 3, the plugs are real cold ones so it fouls easily thought that was what it was so after checking and finding no problems outside Northampton Motorsport was begining to worry. Not to worry though they stuck it on the rollers and when troy attached the timing light lead to no.1 and it earthed through his fingers we found that that lead was borked - luckily they had one I could borrow for the time being. Car running better again..........
Then after some fiddling troy turns round to me with the end of the throttle cable in his hands " errrrr, this just broke", again luckily as they do a lot with kit cars they had cable in stock and also it wasn't a cow to change = result!
Back on with the serious business of tuning it, troys working his magic but 'feels'(think he's a jedi or summit) that the injectors aren't right, we whip them out test them, see one is a mile off the correct spray pattern (although all near identical volumes) so 20 mins in the ultrasonic bath BINGO, back on it going well, only thing is my screemer pipe is REAL short and is sending the lambda reading mental when wastegate is chattering as it's managing to recirculate air so lambda 11+ is impossible so I need to sort a longer pipe and return. Troy didn't want to tune top end because of the lambda readings didn't want to risk killing my engine.
Result 154 bhp at the wheels @Just over 5k rpm, should see over 200 on return. And on journey home engine felt a lot snappier and about the same top end power......
So that explains the missing 1.5+ secs the car was missing 50+ of its horses!
After that explanation of power or lack of, I'll be entering as sportsman this weekend and not pro I'm not doing the may bank hol @ shakey so fingers crossed come the summer nationals @ pod it'll be a pro entry.
Anyway I'm nearly ready, got racesuit boots and gloves (all fia app)saturday.
I've got a fire extinguisher 4 point harness & roll cage padding coming tomorrow, then I 'think' I'm ready to go.
It's amazing how time flies, I signed up for VWDRC 12 jan this year with 'not much to do to car' and now I've missed the 1st entry and this one is days away and I've got necessary parts arriving 2 days before racing
Oh and the trophey was for 'fastest aircooled car' gti spring festival
I will keep this thread ongoing and update with pics & vids
Race number is 102, cars /team name is 'Ex', this was my brothers online alterego and he'd love to have been a part of it.
Come say hello if your about
Well I've decided to do Volkswagen drag racing in it, well I may as well get the most out of it as I've been working on it so damn long!!
The season consists of 7 meets, 5 of which are at santapod which is 5 mins from my house, so well handy, the other 2 are at shakespeare county raceway, everyone has to do at least one of the shakey meets to qualify for the years points.
april 2-4 - easter thunderball @ pod
april 23-35 - big bang @ pod
may 1-3 - spring nationals @ shakey
june 19-20 - summer nationals @ pod
july 23-25 - bug jam @ pod
august 28-30 - open sports nationals @ shakey
september 25-26 - national finals @ pod
Car & me not ready for easter so this weekend 'big bang' will be my 1st of the year.
You've got sportsman, pro and AE classes, sportsman if your car is slower that 12.99 for the 1/4 mile pro if your quicker and then alternative engine.
Although many have the opinion that my car would be in pro class I've done a couple of RWYB's and have fairly consistantly been 14.5~ish so a good 1.5 secs off target, I was untill the rolling road I did this monday getting a bit annoyed about this as I know I'm new to it (I've never thrown ANYTHING down the 1/4 mile) and on my last (trophey winning trip) I had 'judgie' a very well respected vw racer & owner of RNJ Motorsport giving me help & advice / along with a maybe overly healthy dose of mick tacking, was failing to see how technique improvements would gain me over 1.5 secs (.5 - 1 maybe).
As mentioned "until the rolling road" where firstly car was running like a container of pooh in the morning to work, basically running on 3, the plugs are real cold ones so it fouls easily thought that was what it was so after checking and finding no problems outside Northampton Motorsport was begining to worry. Not to worry though they stuck it on the rollers and when troy attached the timing light lead to no.1 and it earthed through his fingers we found that that lead was borked - luckily they had one I could borrow for the time being. Car running better again..........
Then after some fiddling troy turns round to me with the end of the throttle cable in his hands " errrrr, this just broke", again luckily as they do a lot with kit cars they had cable in stock and also it wasn't a cow to change = result!
Back on with the serious business of tuning it, troys working his magic but 'feels'(think he's a jedi or summit) that the injectors aren't right, we whip them out test them, see one is a mile off the correct spray pattern (although all near identical volumes) so 20 mins in the ultrasonic bath BINGO, back on it going well, only thing is my screemer pipe is REAL short and is sending the lambda reading mental when wastegate is chattering as it's managing to recirculate air so lambda 11+ is impossible so I need to sort a longer pipe and return. Troy didn't want to tune top end because of the lambda readings didn't want to risk killing my engine.
Result 154 bhp at the wheels @Just over 5k rpm, should see over 200 on return. And on journey home engine felt a lot snappier and about the same top end power......
So that explains the missing 1.5+ secs the car was missing 50+ of its horses!
After that explanation of power or lack of, I'll be entering as sportsman this weekend and not pro I'm not doing the may bank hol @ shakey so fingers crossed come the summer nationals @ pod it'll be a pro entry.
Anyway I'm nearly ready, got racesuit boots and gloves (all fia app)saturday.
I've got a fire extinguisher 4 point harness & roll cage padding coming tomorrow, then I 'think' I'm ready to go.
It's amazing how time flies, I signed up for VWDRC 12 jan this year with 'not much to do to car' and now I've missed the 1st entry and this one is days away and I've got necessary parts arriving 2 days before racing
Oh and the trophey was for 'fastest aircooled car' gti spring festival
I will keep this thread ongoing and update with pics & vids
Race number is 102, cars /team name is 'Ex', this was my brothers online alterego and he'd love to have been a part of it.
Come say hello if your about
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