Bigpower

Finally managed a 12 in the fwd rover tomcat at the pod today.

Car was going really well and only a 2nd gear change issue (had to really be careful for it to go in gear under power) prevented it from going quite a bit faster I think it could have been half second quicker if I can sort out this out

run
60ft 1/8" 1000ft 1/4"
2.126 8.7386 @92.19mph 11.0882 @106.70 12.9829 @ 119.95mph

car felt good on the drive home too so no damage done from all the thrashing!

Bloody good result for all you persistance and hard work
Shows how rubbish the surface is @North Weald.
Did you get to use the NOS?

Thought that was you there mate.

I was in one of my Metro's. I got in the 14's lol.

Eddy

Rob S wrote:Bloody good result for all you persistance and hard work
Shows how rubbish the surface is @North Weald.
Did you get to use the NOS?

yeah I run 13.3 without it at 111 best

need to sort the gearbox 2nd gear though as I think it could get close to 12's without the nos if it wern't for the slow change.

Annoying though as it drives perfect on the road, its only when I do a full blooded start it refuses to go in 2nd gear

I did see a couple of metros running 14's -pretty good going and beet a few turbo's

great stuff good old tomcat

well done mate,i was very happy to get evo in the 10's at totb

Nice work Chap

Well done Tomcat! Thats a very impressive time!:thumbs: How do the head gaskets hold up these days? My old 220`s used to blow head gaskets every other month it (seemed) One of them even managed to blow the klinger sandwich type! The strange thing is my 220`s blew head gaskets while my 620 ti`s never did, but they ate diff bearing instead!

Eddy, you should be well chuffed two? Which metro did you take? 14`s in a N/A fwd anything is not to be sniffed at (let alone in a metro:D)

good times and terminals

russ979 wrote:Well done Tomcat! Thats a very impressive time!:thumbs: How do the head gaskets hold up these days? My old 220`s used to blow head gaskets every other month it (seemed) One of them even managed to blow the klinger sandwich type! The strange thing is my 220`s blew head gaskets while my 620 ti`s never did, but they ate diff bearing instead!

touch wood I have never blown a head gasket on it -alway run a metal klinger version and had head skimmed when I first stripped it.
went through a few type a diffs , but since its had atype b (620 diff) and steel cage bearings not had an issue.
Just need to make it want to change into 2nd gear after a full on start and high rpm's in first