hi all, i'm pretty new on here so would like to say hello for a start.

i've just ran a 13.8 1/4 at the pod on sunday at 10psi of boost,
i was just woundering what the rest of the front wheel drive boys and girls are running as its only the 3rd time i've done any drag racing and would like to find out what i'm up against.

thanx

 

What colour is your car, I'm quite sure I was watching you launch at some point and noticed how well you got it off the line, i remember you doing a 13.8

13.8 is very fast for a RS turbo, they are quick but it seems everyone struggles to get them off the line.

I'd be well happy with that if I was you, goodluck when you get some more boost on it

Whats the actual spec apart from being 2.1 zvh ?

also i think that time made you the 2nd quickest fwd car there, certainly the quickest fwd ford, shame they have these bulls**t categories now

 

what car? escort? terminal?

 

I think it was a 100mph pass, escort rs turbo

 

Theres still a few quicker fwd's than a 13.8 1/4, impressive non the less

 

its a mercury gray s2, big blue seats and white 17s, area six in the window.
performace ford featured in feb.

its now runnin t34 but only at 10psi as its still not been mapped yet.

got a ported inlet manifold, quaife diff and new paddle clutch in it now to.

stage 3 fiesta frenzy head, ff double valve springs, kent cam and adjustable pully, ab motorsport chip and injectors, grs intercooler and rad, ofab efi, wrc escos pipercross air filter,mongoose system, thats about it.

koni adjustables and road tyres.

i'm well happy with it on the strip but i know it will go quicker on some sticky tyres.

best get savin up again!!!!

 

not at the show there wasn't though ! lol

respect to that time though, you cant be running much more than 220bhp I should think at that boost.

I'm running a quaife and about 200bhp, 13.4 but its a nova which is a bit lighter

 

yer i recon 210bhpm max, terminal was 100.46mph.

gunna be runnin 18psi when mapped, got 22psi chip but dont want to risk anything as its only been built since december.

i didn't see your nova run, but my mrs is big into them and she said she had seen a rapid nova runnin.

 

glad to see someone has a liking towards novas !

as far as novas go its quick for the h/p it has, I've got plenty to do to it yet, want to set some times like the turbo novas are doing,

respect to your rs's time, well impressive

 

good for you mate, each to thier own really, motorsport is motorsport respectivly of what you drive.

 

Phil I was taliing to Ian last night he wanted to compare are times this was my first timing slip from the pod when I had the 16V done (was running 6psi before mappin and using semi slicks) destroyed the standard LSD aswell
Nice to see someone launch and escort properly

 

Good stuff for an escort i reckon.

 

reaction .431
60ft 2,217
330ft 5.899
1/8 et 8.944
1/8 mph 81.51
1000 et 11.497
1/4 et 13.814
1/4mph 100.42

i'd put the slip up like you but i'm a computer nuggit!!

nice to meet you last week buy the way.

got any pics of your beema on its new shoes?

 

Sounds like there's alot more to come from your car then phil, its in the FF ad in PF I think isn't it, very nice car!

 

sure is buddy, thanx for the kind comments.

i'd put some pics up if i could work out how to get the file to the right size to post!!!

 

LOL I got my brother (the nerd) to scan that slip

Won't belong before we can meet up again in our cars You going to do the quailfer? I think you should, I'll even lend you my semi's for a couple of go's if you want? Should shave 1/2 sec on that time I recon.

 

i ment pics with your new wheels on.

not sure about the qualifer, works being a total arse at the minute and i'd like to fit new front wheel bearings and drive shafts or outer cv joints as their the only things left to replace and i'm really paranoid that their gunna let go

i cant really get the cash together to do that and get it mapped in time as i'm off on holiday soon to, its all fell abit wrong really

 

They are the same wheels but just new ones as the last set had corroded.
Still think you should do the quailfer, take a boot full of spares and a AA card

 

I don't know how to re-size things but I think the site re-size's them automatically now, or then again that might be totaly wrong?

just give it ago mate, remember to put [img] before the pic/link and [/img] when your done!

 

oh right, got you sorry. thought you was havin some different ones.

looks sweet, bet its great fun with everything switched off

 

Good times. 100mph terminal and a 13 shows u have good grip - ATB will be helping there i think. ZVH's dont need a lot of boost, so on 10psi ur prob doing 220bhp if not more

 

no i'm pretty sure just a genuine 210bhp

the diff has helped massively, sayin that the standard ford unit was in when i did my 14.13 on my t3 with 14psi and that gripped ok.

 

very good time

 

thanx fella

 

Very good time there well done!

2.1 ZVH RST always seem to launch well, Kieth Taylors definately did!!

 

cheers fella, burnin for more boost and sticky tyres and hopefully run low 13's

 

I've managed a 13.5 @ 108 but I've not got a slip diff

 

this honda ran a 12.8sec over the 1/4mlie last weekend 270bhp with out turbo but with these mental tyres and there where also a cvic turbo that ran 12.3 and with 300+ i am going to try those tyres

 

tim what car you running?

what spec?

you runing at totb3?

 

I no its not drag but i run 13" by 11" slicks, michelin at 14 psi and they stick like glue this is on my 230bhp rwd sierra, but they only cost me a tenner a piece,

 

you've got to give it to these corsa and nova boys, they've been busy builing some right road rockets of late.

 

No hey say on side for competative use only. Im afraid do they have to be legal

 

Good times there fella. Hope things are well!

 

now then buddy, yes i'm very well thanx.

hows your baby coming on?

 

Yep good question, everyone knows black is the fastest

 

mercury gray

not my first chose but hay, its mint!!!

i loved my white one more though.

shame it was standard before that tw@t wrote it off, uninsured scum-bag

and i know of a murcury gray one thats quicker than mine, SID ZE-VH's

 

Yeah its a Corsa....

Mates got a Nova with pritty much the same spec engine, but he prepps the car for the 1/4 and has a slip diff and hes run a 12.5

Think if I stripped the car , jacked the back end up and put a diff on I might nick a 12 if the wind is blowing my way?

 

get onto it then buddy, you've got nothing to loose, doing the mods cant make it slower that is a fact!

 

I'm wanting to run it at York this weekend, just got a boost problem to try and rectify!

Already this week it has ripped a mount out of the floor of the car and tore a bolt out of the gearbox..... Oh how I love my car