Monday, October 30, 2006 - 08:03 am, by: Luke Nieuwhof(Luke_nieuwhof)
13.53 was my best, 103-104ish. And a red light in round one when the other car broke on the track. I was swearing the whole way down. Why I didn't do just my normal routine and go for a safe high .0 light I don't know.
Monday, October 30, 2006 - 03:43 pm, by: Paul Brockbank(Brockas)
Paul Brescani wrote on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 02:59 pm:
how did you hook them up. i was under mine yesterday and noticed the guy who did mine has gone straight from the gearbox to the cooler and just blocked the cooler thats in the radiator off. is this right?
No, the transmission coolers you hook up wont work when the car is not in motion, you still need the cooler in the radiator.
I have mine hooked up so it goes: Gearbox -> trans cooler 1 -> radiator -> trans cooler 2 -> gearbox
Only took me an hour to fit them up, it's not too difficult.
As for Drag Wars...
My best time for the day, 13.20 @ 110mph (rounded up from 109.75... haha bite me Shane)! 2.45 60' times for the lose! haha This thing will not get off the line, doesn't matter how much you stall it up, it's still 1000rpm of lag before it comes on boost. I will have to invest in a high stall before it will do any decent times.
Monday, October 30, 2006 - 09:17 pm, by: Callum Finch(Sigeneat)
Hehe, One run i did i thought i would stall it up as much as the brakes would let me... I cant remember what the figure was but i did a standstill burnout on the line! =D
Monday, October 30, 2006 - 10:12 pm, by: Paul Brockbank(Brockas)
I'm going to try running higher tyre pressure because my MPH is lower than it should be.
I only usually run 16psi at the drags, but traction isn't too much of an issue at the moment because by the time my car comes on boost I'm already going 30km/h...
Monday, October 30, 2006 - 11:23 pm, by: Shane Ilich(Ferret)
Daniel Clarke wrote on Monday, October 30, 2006 - 07:47 pm:
Shane, What tyres do you use at the track? And what Tyre pressures?
Just my standard road tyres - Dunlops, 255/R17s. After pulling a 17.5 (was basically a quarter-mile burnout through 3 gears) I realised "oh yeah, sposed to drop tyre pressure at the drags, not like a track day"...so dropped them back to 20psi.
Bumped into Ray (a mate) once I had stopped racing...looks at my timeslips and first thing he says is "shoulda rung me and chucked a set of my slicks on for today, thing would hook up then"...love it how he only says this to me AFTER I've finished racing. Might take him up on the offer on a wednesday night meet and see how they go.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 08:01 am, by: Daniel Clarke(Dieseltrain)
I dont think 16psi to 30 psi will change the tyre diameter that much to give you more mph though. Maybe 0.5 or like 1 mph, if that. Its not like your changing from a 25 inch tall tyre to a 28 inch tall tyre.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 06:54 pm, by: Daniel Clarke(Dieseltrain)
Although Paul, your mph should be at least 115mph with a 1.9 to 2.0 60 footer and no traction issues. Ben Burgess said as his 60 footers dropped by 0.1, his mph increased by 1 to 1.5mph. Hope this helps
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