Full report, pics and video's to follow. Great meeting Bigfil, KHisa and the rest of their crew:thumbs:
RS Central Day - Santa Pod
RS Central Day - Santa Pod
Full report, pics and video's to follow. Great meeting Bigfil, KHisa and the rest of their crew:thumbs:
The build up to today:o
What a week......After the recent set back with the head we were due to have it all done and back on Thursday. Gordon had had the head skimmed and had got most of the parts we needed. So after a week of ordering parts and waiting for bits to turn up Alan was all set to rebuild it with Gordon's help.
Alan collect the Frontera on Thursday morning and headed off to collect the trailer at 07.30. At 09.00 I got a phone call from Alan, I asked if he was at Gordon's already, he shouted 'NO, I'm at Halfords 12 miles from you'. The new oil filer cap that I had fitted was leaking and the car had started to smoke like a train, so Alan had to limp it to the nearest place to get oil and a new filler cap.
The rebuild all went to plan and they were only waiting on one part to arrive, a new accelerator cable. When it came it was the wrong one......So they had to wait around for the parts company to get back to them...no joy they didn't have the correct one we needed, so Gordon got on the phone and eventually managed to source one but iot meant Alan had to go for a 20 mile drive to collect it.......In the mean time I had to go work so took Alan's car and the plan was for Alan to bring the Frontera with the car on the trailer to me at work. He finally turned up at 23.30 after leaving mine at 07.30.
Why the mad effort, simple RS Central Day at Santa Pod.........
What a week......After the recent set back with the head we were due to have it all done and back on Thursday. Gordon had had the head skimmed and had got most of the parts we needed. So after a week of ordering parts and waiting for bits to turn up Alan was all set to rebuild it with Gordon's help.
Alan collect the Frontera on Thursday morning and headed off to collect the trailer at 07.30. At 09.00 I got a phone call from Alan, I asked if he was at Gordon's already, he shouted 'NO, I'm at Halfords 12 miles from you'. The new oil filer cap that I had fitted was leaking and the car had started to smoke like a train, so Alan had to limp it to the nearest place to get oil and a new filler cap.
The rebuild all went to plan and they were only waiting on one part to arrive, a new accelerator cable. When it came it was the wrong one......So they had to wait around for the parts company to get back to them...no joy they didn't have the correct one we needed, so Gordon got on the phone and eventually managed to source one but iot meant Alan had to go for a 20 mile drive to collect it.......In the mean time I had to go work so took Alan's car and the plan was for Alan to bring the Frontera with the car on the trailer to me at work. He finally turned up at 23.30 after leaving mine at 07.30.
Why the mad effort, simple RS Central Day at Santa Pod.........
After our last couple of visits to the pod, knowing how sticky the track has been and the power level we are now at we decided to use our cheap road tyres. This was to prevent shitting the diff whilst launching as road tyres would allow for some wheel slip thus taking some of the stress off the diff.......
What a fecking joke.......
Alan's 1st run was 14.3, his 60ft was over 2 secs.........The car was just spinning all 4 wheels in 1st and 2nd gears and that was with Alan slipping the clutch. There wa no grip on the track. A mate with a 360bhp mkIII Escort RS turbo had his car snaking as his wheels span when changing into 4th. Fiestas, Focus mkI RS's were all wheel spinning 1st and 2nd gears. Through out the day there were the odd spot or two of rain, which they mopped up or used their track drier but NO glue was ever added to the track.
We waited until after lunch to see if things would get any better but they didn't. Alan's best run of the day was 14.0 with a terminal of 106mph. Bearing in mind last year with 100bhp less he did a 13.2 @ 108mph.
The highlight of the day for me was getting to see BigFil's Mustang run against his mates Escort Cossie twin turbo. (The red one with the turbo's looking out of the top of the bonnet).
Really disappointed as wanted to see what the car could do, but all in all we still had a good day.
I'll be uploading some pics tomorrow and Alan will upload the video footage, including some footage of Phil's awesome Mustang.
What a fecking joke.......
Alan's 1st run was 14.3, his 60ft was over 2 secs.........The car was just spinning all 4 wheels in 1st and 2nd gears and that was with Alan slipping the clutch. There wa no grip on the track. A mate with a 360bhp mkIII Escort RS turbo had his car snaking as his wheels span when changing into 4th. Fiestas, Focus mkI RS's were all wheel spinning 1st and 2nd gears. Through out the day there were the odd spot or two of rain, which they mopped up or used their track drier but NO glue was ever added to the track.
We waited until after lunch to see if things would get any better but they didn't. Alan's best run of the day was 14.0 with a terminal of 106mph. Bearing in mind last year with 100bhp less he did a 13.2 @ 108mph.
The highlight of the day for me was getting to see BigFil's Mustang run against his mates Escort Cossie twin turbo. (The red one with the turbo's looking out of the top of the bonnet).
Really disappointed as wanted to see what the car could do, but all in all we still had a good day.
I'll be uploading some pics tomorrow and Alan will upload the video footage, including some footage of Phil's awesome Mustang.
video of the car out on the strip.
http://youtu.be/1o-acoOfcx0
all i can say is the track was NOT very good at all, slippery, greasy
spinning all 4 wheels in 1st and 2nd gears
the video says it all really
only upside to the day was i had a fit 20year old ask me for a ride:sifone:
http://youtu.be/1o-acoOfcx0
all i can say is the track was NOT very good at all, slippery, greasy
spinning all 4 wheels in 1st and 2nd gears
the video says it all really
only upside to the day was i had a fit 20year old ask me for a ride:sifone:
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Looks like a great day; some properly nice Fords there. Shame about the track and your times but I'm not surprised at the ET's or terminals. More power on worse tyres were bound to throw this up, surely? (More power than last year on tyres that are a year older etc) I'm certainly no expert but unless you're going to really launch your car your ET's will never be anything special- my old 32 had 460+ bhp, an intelligent four wheel drive system, 255 tyres on the back in reasonable rubber and only ever did a 12.6 @ 107 ish. The reason? I launched like a pussy 
Enjoy your day and take some salvage from the fact that at least you were out there running your car rather than tapping keys wishing you were there
Enjoy your day and take some salvage from the fact that at least you were out there running your car rather than tapping keys wishing you were there
Stuart wrote:Looks like a great day; some properly nice Fords there. Shame about the track and your times but I'm not surprised at the ET's or terminals. More power on worse tyres were bound to throw this up, surely? (More power than last year on tyres that are a year older etc) I'm certainly no expert but unless you're going to really launch your car your ET's will never be anything special-
you have a very good point about the tires and power mate but at the end of
the day drag racing is not what were about so we are quite naive about this stuff.
with reference to the tires our thought process was as follows,
last year the track was quite grippy and the 888's gripped like a bitch so
with that in mind we disided to use the road tires as this would been a safer
option to not break a gearbox, diff or driveshaft.
with no glue down on the track everyone suffered even bigfil said they never
glued the track all weekend.
we should have taken the 888's with us would got a much better time.
here is bigfil's run paul recorded.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3NP7K2o ... ature=plcp
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