Whats your 1/4 mile times ?

[wayne_uk]

Intrested to see what all ya cars do..
always looked upon 0-60 times as slighty irrelevant in 'real world' driving,maybe 1/4 mile is to but its a good indication of a cars performance..
Would like to see some cerbera/porsche times but all replies welcome,listing any mods etc done ?

My last car was a mitsu gto 1992 , uprated to 400bhp (evc boost controller,hks filter,exhaust)

1/4 came up in 13.31 or 13.11 (cant remember correctly !!) , grey matters dying of now

cheers

wayne.

[yum]

Steve Heath's book on Griffs and chimaeras shows 13.3 for a 4L chimaera and 12.8 for a 5L Griff.

The figures for the Tamora, Cerbera and Tuscan must be considerably lower.

[fish]

12.837 for my std Tuscan on a cold day at Santa Pod that includes a rather poor reaction time of 1.124. terminal speed was 112.37mph.

Not bad I thought.

[Guy Humpage]

16.752 in a 110K mile Saab 9000

[kevinday]

half an hour in my Lada Niva

[ianpicknell]

I'm sure some of these figures are questionable, but there's a whole host of 1/4 mile (and 0-60) times at www.syclone.freeserve.co.uk/rivals_cars.htm

[VTECDave]

Never have the pleasure of doing proper timed 1/4 miles or track days yet but 2 of my mates run their cars at GTI international:

Standard mk2 8v Golf GTI 200K miles - 16.75

mk2 16v turbod Golf GTI with boot full of beer and camping gear - 15.15

[dannylt]

quote:
12.837 for my std Tuscan on a cold day at Santa Pod that includes a rather poor reaction time of 1.124. terminal speed was 112.37mph.

Not bad I thought.

The reaction time is not included in the 1/4 mile time! However, had you been trying to race someone else down the strip, you would have lost for sure . 12.8 is a great time for a cold day I'd say!

[richb]

The times from the TVRCC Back Home Blackpool beach front Sprint a few years ago (pre-Cerb 4.5/Tuscan days) were:-

Fastest overall - Cerbera 4.2 12.96
2nd Fastest - 420 SEAC 13.04
Fastest Griff 500 13.34
Fastest Chimaera 13.56

Rich...

[GreenV8S]

quote:
The times from the TVRCC Back Home Blackpool beach front Sprint a few years ago (pre-Cerb 4.5/Tuscan days) were:-

Fastest overall - Cerbera 4.2 12.96
2nd Fastest - 420 SEAC 13.04
Fastest Griff 500 13.34
Fastest Chimaera 13.56

Rich...

Why did you stop the list there? You missed the most important one, fastest 4.0 litre 13.8. A V8S if memory serves ...

The conditions were pretty poor, with a strong crosswind and sand and straw blowing across the start line, so I wouldn't be surprised if somebody beat these at a proper track.

[douglasr]

14.6 - not bad for a 2 litre (S2000)

[tav]

While we're on the subject does anybody know the 'official' 1/4 mile time for my TVR S1. Chap at work has just bought a Porsche 924 Turbo which has a similar 0-60 time of 7 seconds but I'd like to know which car would win in a real race......

[richb]

quote:Why did you stop the list there? You missed the most important one, fastest 4.0 litre 13.8. A V8S if memory serves ...

Sorry Pete...R

[Fatboy]

quote:While we're on the subject does anybody know the 'official' 1/4 mile time for my TVR S1. Chap at work has just bought a Porsche 924 Turbo which has a similar 0-60 time of 7 seconds but I'd like to know which car would win in a real race......

Sounds like a bloody good excuse to go to a 'Run what you Brung' day to me
IIRC my brother's old Mini (998cc) did a 21.7 standing quarter at the mini showdown a couple of years back - give you Lada a run for it's money hey Kevinday?

[neil_cardiff]

The company VW Transporter van would surely be the king though? Judge your speed by how wide the crack becomes on the windscreen...

[Dave_H]

I take about 13 minutes in the right shoes.

[neil_cardiff]

Damn, you'll have beaten me by the time I've had a puff, leant out the window to gawp and whistle at some breasts, and nipped in the offy to get a copy of the sun. Still least I'll be sorted fer fags at the end from shady joe and his 'mate'

[hertsbiker]

11.2 seconds, but that's a 105bhp heavy weight bike...

Your cars are pretty damn quick, I'm surprised !

keep at it guys.

Carl.

[loon]

11.9 in my 4.5 Cerb at Avon Park Raceway on a "rung what you brung day2

[ultimapaul]

I saw an Ultima do 11.25 Termination speed of 124mph on a cold Santa Pod run-what-u-brung day last year. The other two Ultimas there only managed mid 12's.