Time for an update of the drag car. I took 2 days off work last week to work on my car over @ Zen. We removed the fuel tank and fitted new fuel set up; two 044's straight from a nice little tank that previously lived in the Lateral Banana. This not only saves me some weight (22kg) but also solve my fueling issues as one 044 was not enough.

We weighed the car when finished and it was 1153kg.






We hit problems when the car died on the dyno late Friday night, it took some time to find the fault but turned out the dual pump set up fried the alarm wiring.

Many thanks to Paul and Ren for sticking with it as the end result was worth it but in true style with us testing at the Pod Saturday we wanted to get it finished although that turned out to be 2am.

Dyno results weren't bad for Paul's conservative rollers we thought - (681.9bhp)







So early start yesterday and loaded up for pod. First run I selected low boost (2 bar ) and it ran 10.11, a new PB. This was also with me holding 4th too long and hitting the limiter before the line. Seems more power now means I need to use 5th.

So tried again at full boost and you know it .... Snapped shaft. Damn and all that but I wasn't carrying a spare so that was it.

Very encouraging though. There's an easy 9 in there now for SSO

Here's the vid of the 1 run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMAEXf_M5w

 

Just worth comparing graphs to the previous run on one pump, you can see how now power keeps rising and torque holds on better.

 

Hi Clive,

Nice to meet you yesterday! Well done on your new PB, hopefully my dad should have a video that he took of you, and I'll put it up on youtube when I get it !

Well done

 

Likewise mate, hope the wedding was good. Be cool to see another vid

 

1153kg - sehr impressive!

682bhp -

 

Well done clive
A 9 is a defo
Lets hope you hit the magic 140mph mark aswell

 

Nice no wonder the tractor bottled out ...

TX.

 

to get the tank out is it a diff off job?

22kg is alot off weight to shed!!

 

Not difficult but the Zen ramps made it easier, also needs a couple of people to ease it out really.

 

Real shame I did not get a high boost run in as 9 & 140+ would be there. Still my TOTB run was 10.16 @ 146

 

This afternoons work -

Popped some decent heavyweight oil in the Type R's PPG box and replaced that pesky broken shaft on the drag car.

 

Clive is that what you ran mate,,
I knew you did a 10.16 but not the 146mph
Do you think there timing gear was abit out mate
I remember mikee saying there was a diff in trap speeds in each lane

 

Yeah could be mate, seems the same there each time that terminals can be optimistic on some runs and not others. 1/4 times are always consistent though, weird

 

Yes clive i ran there yrs ago
The diff in each lane was upto 7mph
Thats why i only really take notice on the pod slips

 

He has already done a 146mph 10 sec run at TOTB

 

Steve,
I don't take any notice of silly straighliners evidence mate,

 

Another view of your run mate, this time in HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoVRmX5fJbg

 

Very good mate, gives better view of just how fast it is compared to my lads video.

 

I was wondering why he was dressed so smart!! I said to Sy that perhaps he's just come back from work or is about to after a couple of runs at the pod!!

 

Yeah had a wedding back in Birmingham at 2pm hence in the shirt

 

Oh i need a pic of the shirt Kosta - well done on your time mate

 

haha yes I was ripping my car down the strip in a suit! Nothing special shirt wise mate, just must have looked very odd to people when I was drag racing so smartly lol!

 

Thought you were a posh git at first Kosta!!

 

Power steering reservoir relocation today on the Type R. Picker up a second hand Hyundai bottle to do the job

This will give me more room to fit the hard inlet pipe for the new turbo later next month.

 

Is that a 3" turbo hose you currently have on there? Looking a bit squeezed by the IM!

 

Nope, as it should be. It' a Lateral item.

 

Angle giving an optical illusion then.

 

Minor bits done today ready for Shootout tomorrow. In with a set of Morettes, not only are they a hell of a lot lighter than OE but it gives me the benefit of a direct cold air feed. Also whipped out some minor bits for more weight loss. I reckon I will now be around 1130kg with my lighter drag wheels on compared to the last weigh in.





Both cars fluids checked so off now to get trailers sorted for both cars. If your coming along tomorrow pop over and say hello.

 

So what's the cold air feed cited in the foglight cover do then? Does it go to the underside of the cone filter too? Or was it the 'old' position for the cold air feed, and is now redundant?

 

Lots of cold air