Hello peeps

Team Cowie · Post by **Team Cowie** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:54 am

Hi Guys

Just found this forum and thought i had better join up

Keith

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:59 am

We are honoured to have you here Keith :notworthy:

Fantastic car - fantastic results :thumb:

What are the plans for this year?

Hugh Janus · Post by **Hugh Janus** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:11 am

:notworthy: Welcome mate, good to have you on board 8)

Post by **Stuart** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:11 am

Bloody hell Mr Cowie.....took your time

Welcome onboard. Nice to have a such an achiever as yourself on the forum. Can you try and smile a bit in any of the next photos that you upload, just incase you scare the wee bairns

See you at the shows. Best of luck for 2008 :thumb:

Team Cowie · Post by **Team Cowie** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:20 am

Hi dynamix

The car is getting some big changes for this coming season.

The OS Giken OS88 gearbox has a airshifter on it now,it will make the car easy to drive now as its hard to manual shift 4 gears in just under 7 seconds and hold onto the car.

We are also changing over to full slicks and i have a special set of 15" wheels on there way that only weigh 3.7kg each plus we are fitting very light wilwood drag brakes,we will see a saving of around 45kg of unsprung weight.

There is a new aero front bumper being fitted fith a full under tray as we are getting a bit of drag so we are going to smooth out the underside of the car.

The engine is getting a bigger turbo and a one off set of camshafts from Tomei and we will be fitting a dry sump kit.

plastic windows will be getting fitted to help take a bit more weight off the car as every bit counts.

The last thing that we are working on is a single MacPherson strut on the front end if we can get this to work it will save about 50kg as the double wishbone set up is heavy.

so with all the changes the car should have more power and be 100+kg lighter

I think thats about it for now.

Keith

Team Cowie · Post by **Team Cowie** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:28 am

[quote="stuart"]Bloody hell Mr Cowie.....took your time

Welcome onboard. Nice to have a such an achiever as yourself on the forum. Can you try and smile a bit in any of the next photos that you upload, just incase you scare the wee bairns ]

Hi Stuart

I only found the forum when i seen a decal on someones car :-D

I do look a bit fed up

not much wonder they were here for 6 hrs took about 400+ photos,then i had to wait till it was dark to get the right light lol

Keith

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:31 am

Great plans for the year - you wouldnt have thought that so many more improvements could be made to what is already a stunningly effective drag car. Good luck with them all and please create a project thread here so that we can see all the progress :thumb:

TonyB · Post by **TonyB** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:44 am

:welcome: to BP Keith

Love your work :notworthy: and look forward to hearing about your progress, from the horses mouth, and maybe picking up a few tips

Post by **Ben** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:49 am

Hello and welcome to Bigpower - nice to have you on board.

Pike · Post by **Pike** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:17 pm

What an addition to the ranks!
Hello & Welcome.