What rear tyres you running Chip?

 

Those ones are BF goodrich 225/55/15 mate, but thats not what I normally run with it.

Check out the camber, I didnt have any time to set it up for drag racing at all, was doing 8am - 5am just to get it there and ran out of time.

Still did a fairly respectable 1.89 60ft and a 5.37 330ft though.

 

Will be great to see once you have smoothed out the set up then .

 

Luca, yeah when I can stop the minor glitches like it going up in flames Im looking forward to seeing what it can do.

I reckon I can get it in the 1.7s to 60ft, and I really want to see a sub 5 second 330ft time from it too.

I'll probably try it with a little gas to get those though, once ive got everything else working as its a bit reluctant to spool the turbo in first and second as it rattles through them so quick, although a bit of antilag and launch might solve that without need gas, will have to see.

 

Looking good, the rear tyres look mental.

 

why does it keep catching fire chip?

 

glad your having fun in it mate, still looked good from what could i see even though as i walked over the bank and see it running although you wernt impressed with it lol

 

LMAO

It doesnt "keep" catching fire mate, it just happened once.

As part of my inlet I have used a Jenvey independant throttle body setup and their fuel rail.

This rail is mounted with the intention of only ever seeing vacuum, on my car it actually sees quite a lot of boost, and this causes it to flex which allowed fuel to leak out.

Annoyingly it didnt do it AT ALL during 100s of miles of mapping including at far higher boost levels than I ran at the pod, but as is often the case, the moment you are were it counts, the gremlins start to appear!

 

Yeah its a shame I didnt get to actually run a whole quarter without a problem, but it was fantastic off the line, and it is awesome fun to drive, so overall im well happy with my whacky little creation!

Probably be well into next year before its anything like "finished" though reastlically as I get so little time to work on it.

 

if you want a hand some time chip il donate some time to it with you as i dare say i owe you several favours lol

 

Thanks for the offer mate, sadly its down in somerset though so a little bit out of your way, lol

 

im sure you owe him about 200 labour hours lol....get your arse down there and help

 

Bonkers car, but in a good way!

 

got any good bars down there? il bring a labour force with me for a weekender, work of day and beer by night lol

 

Not really mate, the night life in somerset doesnt really compete with london, lol

 

they must sell beer even if its just in crates? lol

 

Beer?

No mate, we dont get that fancy stuff, just scrumpy, LOL


Matt, thanks mate

 

 

il have to import some for you, these foriegn places (somerset lol)dont know what thier missing

 

good pic PMSL@ nightlife in somerset

we tore up Milverton once.........I think they even brought a deck of cards out for us

 

Great 60ft Chip!

 

Agreed, awesome 60ft!!

Could crack a 10 with launches like that and some decent power. Is it going to be running enough power to manage that?

 

Just for the record...I think Specky's was working too





lol @ the comment about chip's nova catching fire! Its only happened once, he tried to torch somebody elses before

 

I dont think 10s are on the cards, not with it being 1180kg as it runs.

Would probably need approaching 600bhp to do that on a 60ft of 1.89 at that weight I would imagine.

If I can get 11s (which seems very probable) I will be happy with that, its not really intended as a drag car, electric windows etc, lol

 

What ET did you run Chip?

 

This your nova Chip?

 

I think that is his mates

Mike

 

12.9 @ 103mph

 

No mate, thats SpanishFly off of here's nova.

 

Good going, hurry up and "complete" it (will never happen lol) so i can see it driven in anger!

 

Ah, i see. I saw it at TOTB last year. What happened to that one? I assume you know the guy with this crazy looking thing then?



Is it finished now?

 

He sold the nova and is building a corsa instead now.

His target is 10s with the big floppy drag tyres on.

 

I work on it as often as I can, but I dont get a lot of free time.

 

Thats not what I meant though, i meant, you will always think its too slow and be speccing it higher and higher

 

This thing was fairly rapid up the 1/4 on the day:

 

Nah, its gone as far as im going with it now engine and turbo wise etc, just a case of getting it all working properly and doing a final map on it now and then it is finished, might change a few other things, but the engine wont change unless I have a dramatic failure, in which case it will get a saab 2.3 as I cant afford to build another LET to the spec of this one at the moment really!

 

Thats chris suttons, he should be there again this year I expect.

 

Were you driving anything that day?

 

No mate, I have never personally competed in TOTB as I dont have a car quick enough for the class it would be in (ie my nova would be in the demo class with the 8 second drag cars, lol)