1/4 mile times

Level 4 User Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 83

Hey people, i was wondering if any of you go to santa pod to run your cars down the strip? I'm friends with Stuart Clark with his renault 5 gt, (kp-motorsport) and i went down there for a renault weekend and it was great fun :D

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we're all too scared to, in case our circlips pop out!

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

we've all been to the pod but like Neal said, we've not run our 19's, that damn diff circlip does have a habit of popping when u launch the 19 16v off the line heh

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 1108

I ran mine at the pod a few weekends ago! My quickest time was a 16.3 and I can't remember what speed I was doing accross the line. I got vids like, but they're masssssivveeeeee. I beat an M3 off the line aswell lol.......and then it kinda creamed me yeah. But yeah I didn't even think about the circlip lol, I was just 4,000rpm and let it rip lol. Was like a legend I tell ya!

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Haven't got many pics, but here's one of me on the line ready to go....

[img:1024:768:340e240cde]http://premium1.uploadit.org/simonds1//R19-At-Santapod.jpg[/img:340e240cde]

And they also had a mobile rolling road there, which I put the car on out of curiosity like!....

[img:1024:768:340e240cde]http://premium1.uploadit.org/simonds1//R19-Rolling-Road.jpg[/img:340e240cde]

It was 130bhp and 118lb/ft of torque. Where's the bloody 7bhp gone lol. Ah well, is that normal? I mean I spoze a 12yr old car isn't really gonna keep every single one of it's bhp over that time, but yeah was lower than I expected it to be really. The guy explained the power/torque graph to me then, and the peak power was at 6,323rpm.....and after that it starts dropping.......so he said that's obviously when I should be changing gear.....but when I was doing my runs down the strip, I was changing as close to 7,250rpm as I could get it. So yeah if I'd known that before, maybe I'd have got a better time! doh

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

let us know next time ur going down there Si.

I may take along a spare diff circlip and gearbox oil and risk putting mine against yours lol

Site Subscriber Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 1108

Legend Si! Good idea lol. I was up against stupid cars everytime lol. An M3, a massive V10 BMW 760i if there's even such a thing lol, a Kateram 7, a supercharged VW polo, and a few toyota starlet GT Turbos lol. Gave one of the starlets a bloody good run for it's money aswell, that was on my quickest run aswell. Was getting used to doing the starts then like.

I honestly didn't think about the circlip once lol. I always worried about it before when my mates mentioned santapod......but it went out of my mind totally! The car was awesome, like fair play to it, 4.5 hour drive to get there, then all day havin the shit ripped out of it, then next day, bit more shit ripped out of it, blast on the rolling road, then 4.5 hour drive home....and not a single glitch. Awesome car. Well, apart from the underneath :p lol

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http://www.theresults.co.uk/2006_Motorsport_0528_Speed_French_Car_Show_Overall_Quarter_Mile_results.pdf

http://www.theresults.co.uk/2006_Motorsport_0528_Speed_French_Car_Show_Overall_0-60_results.pdf

here you the results have been posted from fcs 2006 look at about 108

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

that's really not too bad at all David, considering you let off the gas early as well as the finish line was not that well marked.

i can't remember who was behind the wheel at the time, but iirc chunk/pierries 19 16v ph2 exec was in the 14's for the 1/4 mile at the pod