No pressure Spud !

[Viper]

Nad ran a PB 10.858 @ 130.78mph this afternoon at Santapod,
only running 8lbs of boost

Well done N

Edited by Viper on Saturday 15th July 11:34

[stevieturbo]

Congrats Nad !!! You must be getting some serious tracion there !!!

[joelism]

Huge respect, well done, thats an excellent launch.

[Viper]

yes, reaction time and 60ft must be excellent

Edited by Viper on Saturday 15th July 11:35

[stevieturbo]

Reaction time isnt usually included in the times...

[Viper]

Nad just sent a second slip over, she made 10.8 twice



the other plate throws up a black Fiat Coupe

Edited by Viper on Saturday 15th July 19:08

[stevieturbo]

ummmmm....how the did she get a 1.5 sec 60 ft !!!!!!!!!

That is incredible !! I want one !! lol

What tyres ??

[N GTS]

I was amazed myself at the 60' time! DOT marked drag radials, @ 16psi, but I gave the clutch some serious abuse...launched at 3500rpm... something I've never been able to bring myself to be so brutal to do to a car before. I could smell the clutch-fry all the way down the 1/4 in car, horrid! Tried 4000 rpm and couldn't pull it off. The Pods surface was superb (as it always has been) way better than Avon Park! (...Or should I say...it was good, until my mate wanted me to bang out a go-for-it time in his GT40, and I screwed the drive shaft and spat CV joint grease and balls all over the start line! feel bad about that). I banged the gears hard too, but on second run clutch was so badly smoked, it gave out and I had to coast down part way, as it didn't want to shift! I ran on Tesco 99 superplus pump petrol only, I can highly recommend it. 8psi, rising to a little more with boost creep, and Aquamist water injection, no methanol this time as I drained the tank ready to plum for a duel brake cooling trial project!

[viper paul]

Nad if you are thinking of the water on the brakes then be careful, when I was a race mechanic for a GP1 Dolomite Sprint we had this but if the brakes still get very hot and water gets applied they can shatter the disc we crashed two cars that way and gave it up.

Just my 10 cents but at Hockenheim two years running Viper front disc's have shattered and the drivers hit the kitty liter that was with no water either, I do have a set of gooid used set of disc's if you want to try it.

Just don't want you to damage the car.

BTW nice times and a great launch, well done.

[N GTS]

Hi ya Paul, nice to hear from you this year, and thanks for advice. I can't afford the needed big brake kit, so have to go with trialing the water-cooling, hey, what bar and nossel outlet size did you spray at...as I'm at 8 bar @ 0.3 jet for WI brakes, gives a nice mist, no crack?!

[stevieturbo]

Where on the disc are you spraying ?? And would that have an impact on possible cracking ??

[viper paul]

We had nothing so nice as jets we used windsreen washer parts and modded the kets to spray, problem was always on fast straights with hairpins at the end the water was never as fast as the initial hard push on the brakes so by the time the water hit the discs were hot.

Good luck with it but monitor the discs closly you may start to see small hairline cracks first.