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Old Aug 11, 2008 | 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by JonnyBravo
There was a thread mentioning he pulled 200mph, did he have car troubles Chip ?
He saw 200 or so on his own monitoring (dta wheel speed sensors and in car GPS) but the timing equipment there was shite and missed both his quickest runs totally from the results

He had a problem with a blown alternator that was threatening to leave him short of electrical charge to limp home with, and had what sounded like a blow gasket on a couple of cylinders.

Awesome car though and top attitude

He arrived after the long drive from ireland through scotland and ran a couple of 200ish runs back to back and neither got recorded, knackering the alternator in the process and having to charge his car off Rod Tarry's son's van between runs, then he had a boost pipe blew off on the run it did record so it shows only 175 or so, and then had some sort of mechanical failure in the engine, he removed the plugs and injector wiring from those 2 cylinders, and set off home on 6 cylinders with no charging, stopping to swap batteries out on the way, and he was STILL smiling.

Awesome competitor, and very cool car
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