finally in the 12's

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 9:33 pm

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!

Rob S · Post by **Rob S** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:36 am

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?

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:36 am

Thought that was you there mate.

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

Eddy

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:39 am

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

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:14 am

great stuff

good old tomcat

gary@apt · Post by **gary@apt** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:12 pm

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

Post by **Ben** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:34 pm

Nice work Chap

russ979 · Post by **russ979** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 6:44 pm

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)

Tk · Post by Tk » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:22 pm

good times and terminals

tomcat · Post by **tomcat** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:40 pm

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