druddle

Talking to a friend tonight who is maaaaad on US muscle cars.

He is rebuilding a car that is the same as Eleanor from "Gone in 60 Secs". Its got nitrous and once the engine is finished and the gearbox comes back from rebuilding in a couple of weeks, it will be nearly done. Paintwork is at the primer stage at the mo.

Once dyno'd he will have accurate info, but on full chat it will have getting on for 650 odd bhp. Biiiig fat rear tyres are being sourced specially.

I am trying to get him to take her to a 1/4 mile session once she's done but hes a bit reluctant in case the months of hard work go bang too soon !!

Even so, all that horsepower and 2 1/2 tons of metal will be mental.

He is also looking at restoring (doesnt need much) a Chevy Nova which is just bloody stupid. All lightweight parts in, more nitrous than the NHS have and a supercharger the size of a house. I wont speculate on performance now, but when it ran a while back did 0-60 in about 2.8 secs and standing 1/4 mile in 7.8

Wonder if I can keep up in the Clio ?

Dave

[Edited by druddle - 11/6/2001 10:05:20 AM]

druddle

Kosy

It was late and my brain was getting weary

Yeah it was Gone in 60 Secs, and it was the Shelby GT500. I have seen some pics of the bodywork in primer and i cant wait for it to be finished. Beats me why he wants to make it faster, but he is a bhp-junkie !!

Dave

[Edited cos i cant spell]

[Edited by druddle - 11/6/2001 10:10:15 AM]

philwaring

I've just been flicking through my collection of free magazines I acquire on a monthly basis and one of these is Revs (November issue). There's a 0-60 feature in here and the third quickest car on the Alconbury airfield is a scoob STi ... it's blast to 60 is 3.8 seconds!!! How quick is that, I wonder what the 0-100 time is or engine outputs etc.??

Just thought I'd pass this on as this must be a seriously quick motor!!

CraigH

I reckon 9.5 would be a fairly close approximation

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Craig - was it you?

philwaring

Craig - it was you!!!! That is damn quick matey, I take it you have fettled some what with the car ... looks cracking! That Renault 5 @ 3.50 seconds must have been rapid, on the standing quarter would you have caught and surpassed him????

Nice photo by the way!!

Phil

Scoobychick - are you around today?

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Phil - Craigs car is wicked Ask Chris & Bex...they had a lap round Dono with him Saturday, said his driving skills weren't bad either

Yes I'm about today

Sal

CraigH

Me?

MorayMackenzie

I managed a 3.8 second 0-60mph with a passenger and a full tank of fuel along for the ride, so these times aren't really that difficult.

Moray

johnfelstead

My westie is faster (on a grippy surface!!! LOL)

Kosy

iTrader: (2)

I take it when u mean Elanor from "The Fast and the Furious", that u actually mean the Shelby GT500 in "Gone in 60 Seconds"?

mutant_matt

LOL @ Kosy!!

Gary Foster

That is a very expensive classic car, If I'd spent 50 grand on a collectors item, the last thing I'd be doing would be tuning it and putting nitrous in.

It would be like doing the same to a (half the price !) E-Type Jag.

CraigH

Moray,

And how was your time achieved? One of these super duper accurate self timers perhaps?

Do it on the same day as me, or anyone else who gets times like that, consistently and not once and then you can comment about it not being to difficult

MorayMackenzie

OOOOOhhhhh, would handbags at dawn suit you sir?

Don't worry craig, my car has now been off the road for most of the year because someone you probably know of decided that he could save a few quid when rebuilding the engine (which he destroyed whilst conducting probably the best tuning in the world to it) by fitting heavier cast pistons in place of sti standard spec forged pistons... probably not the best way to rebuild a customers engine if you break it. In an engine that rev's 1000rpm higher than a uk engine you don't fit heavy cast pistons, but then he probably knew that anyway... probably.

The long and the short of it is that you don't have to worry about me upsetting your fastest start in the west crown just at the moment, I was merely pointing out that I managed the same time in a car with two persons onboard (IIRC, a number of months before your figures hit the bbs) and my car was running standard internals and standard intercooling at the time, hence my comment about the 3.8 target being fairly easily obtainable.

Moray

CC

forgive my intrusion !

Moray, i think CraigH's point is nothing to do with who fvcked up your car, it to do with the fact that he has acheived 3.8secs on several occasions using proper timing geat (Datron i assume).

Did u use such accurate equipment? My m8 has done a sub 6 secs in his astra gte using one an in car gizmo .

Big up to Craig for getting those times.

MorayMackenzie

The in-car timer thing I used has been found to be accurate to within one tenth of a second at santa pod. The reading I got was actually in the very low 3.7s, so I rounded up by a tenth to get 3.8. My passenger verified that it was less then 4 seconds to 60. I didn't feel the need to punish the drivetrain by repeated exocet starts at the time.

My point is that sub 4 seconds is not as unobtainable as you may imagine, there are several scoobies I know of that should easily manage sub 4 second to 60 sprints when launched "correctly", and it isn't a simple case of sidestepping the clutch at high revs as many seem to believe.

All of this doens't alter the fact that John F's car would leave these cars for dust from take off if he could just get the grip. Racelogic traction control John?

Moray

CraigH

Moray,

Then I guess with just you as the driver, you would've been able to get close to 3.5 secs then? That would be the difference a 70-80kg passenger would make. Which would make your car as quick as Martin Hadlands Escort or that Twin Engine R5.....hmmm

I'm not dissing your car as I know it was quick, but you can't compare a self timed launch with a cheap portable accelerometer, to proper timed runs.