Fiecos Dan

for track use they are good on light, cars with very little camber used, due to being cross ply.

But they are very old design now.
and not design'd for sprinting.

Nash

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TBH mate these would be worse for dragging than normal part worn road tyres with only say 15psi. The reason is that they are designed for track use to the sidewalls are very stiff and dont have any give. the track tyres would be god on the back of a FWD car though to try and stop power getting soaked up. Dunlop do a road legal drag tyre in 15's, my mate used these at TOTB 2 years ago and that was running 12.1's 1/4s

Drag radials have very very soft sidewalls and the compound is soft enough to pick off with your finger nail.

The other thing with the FWD cars and selectable boost controllers is wouldn't it be best to make wheel speed indicator that runs on the back wheel? The reason i say this is when the car starts to wheel spin the boost controller thinks you are in a higher gear so gives you even more boost making the problem even worse.

Tim

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IVE GOT THEM STOP GIVING THEM IDEAS LOL

TiB

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They didnt really help though on the day, i managed 4.19 0-60mph on my kumho's (the only proper run i did on them) and the best i could do was 4.10 0-60 on the drag tyres after trying about 6 launches.

The track just wasnt good for grip, the lane that is used to drive back on was gripier by far but thought i might get thrown off site if i busted a full launch there

Lee

turbotrev

But to get that tiny bit quicker just gets harder once eveyones already running reasonably big power, so the gains get less and less and become harder to achieve.

Cars now also want super reliability to go with the power too.

Totally agree with Lee saying that the surface was pony for starts, my good and bad starts were all almost identical.

Respect to all that ran

Cheers

Paul

turbotrev

And Sean your car goes like a rocket once it gets going!

Cheers

Paul

rapidcossie

this is in car footage from my 4th run...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE-wO5J6gjk

M K

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the clip freezes for me at 44 seconds

gus

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works fine for me

rapidcossie

ok for everyone else?

M K

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its ok now

RS500

Tib do you have run your car on a proper dragstrip like santa pod and is it good for only straightline acceleration??
And tim i like to give people ideas for making their cars faster and better you just have to make your car faster than then the other people.

Fiecos Dan

Tib's run his car at many Places,

places i've seen him run are Santa Pod, Elevinton (sp), Bruntingthorpe, and all more than once.

i believe his 11.4 in his sig, to be @ the pod on his cut slicks.

Daviet

quality video mate
cars a beast and didnt even look like you tried too hard on that run

MikeR

Why was there so few cars this year ? i always thought that there was 10 cossies and 10 rst ??

Mike

Oh well done Euan

rapidcossie

i didnt try that hard mate..

just braked a little later each time.

runs were 177,180.2,181.5,182.4 and 184.7.

was getting on in the day a bit after that so we decidd to call it a day.

the car took it in its stride...

TiB

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i've done a few track days too mate,

I did run at santa pod with the mickey T's once.... i got about 5 metres before the diff spat itself out so like said by danny only ever used cut slicks at pod.

Lee

Christian and Beccy

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Here's a vid of one of my 160+mph runs. Not the greatest vid, but it's all we got!!

Right Click/Save as

I just LOVE my rev limiter (a little too much!!)....

Badman38

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hi paul did you also found the grip was shite either i bogged down or just lost time wheel spining.. and your car mint m8 the stickers look the part and the attention to detail well all the cars were top notch..

Steven_RW

Car looked nice n strong Euan

Have u run it up with the new coolers yet?

RW

rapidcossie

not yet steve!

will keep you posted

rapidcossie

having watched Christians vid i wondered what peoples views on wearinf helmets are?

would you wear a helmet on top speed runs?

should they be a requirement at these events?

Only saw one person with a helmet on at the cossie event..

what was it like at the RST day?

Christian and Beccy

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Beccy insists on it to be perfectly honest, but I am absolutely fine with it and always will wear a helmet. Why should it be any different to hammering round a track?

Sod what people think.

rapidcossie

less chance of someting going wrong in a stright line i suppose?

but if something does go wrong it could be worse? nothing to hit but that didnt save Richard Hammond.

I was thinking abou this the other day actually...

wil i wear one on the next top speed day? Not sure?

Fiecos Dan

Santa pod make you wear them if involved in competitions.


And if told to i dont mind at all, even tho i'm sweeting like a slut after a session on the track.

And the other thing i dont like about them, is my vision is limited, and same for movement.

The Rapid 1

Santa Pods rules state if you have a terminal speed of 100+ then you wear a helmet

Not sure if im right on this one but sure someone will correct me if im not, but when Martin crashed the old Escort dont think he actually hit anything as such just rolled and rolled, and not sure what speed he was doing BUT Euan dont think it was up at your 184 mph, but either way if you was to cartwheel your car at that speed what do you think it would like knowing how well built and how strong Martins was , basically a helmet cant be a bad idea for even straightlining if the speed is there, if anything as Dan said the helmet is a hindurance around a track when u need better visibilty.

Steve

rapidcossie

Apart from a tyre problem what else could cos a crash in a straight line?

The Rapid 1

My were confident arent we lol

for 1 theres always a tyre problem

for 2 any number of mechanical issues, steering suspension bonnet flying up anything, dont care how metaculous ur with the prep of your car, you never know if something is on its last legs, a bit of metal with fatigue, anything

For 3 you are pushing your car to its limits who says it wont just sieze, ok drop your clutch, do you know how far u skid in the time it would take u to react , or say the diff or gearbox explodes locking up nothing to stop the driven wheels locking then

But ok "it wont happen to you"

Steve

The Rapid 1

OH or there could always be a bit of freak wind, or maybe even sumit in the road, you ever "taken off" at over 150

Certainly wakes you up a Cat


Steve

Fiecos Dan

Prop failure, cv joint brake up,

and on a run way like brunters etc, rabbits, fox's jumping out.

carlo

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Awesome mate see it step out in 3rd

rapidcossie

i know where you are all coming from...

We (me and all the guys involved in preparing the car at AVA) disscussed the runs ALOT in the weeks leading up to the event.

I decided its best not to think about what can go wrong as it will only make you think twice.

The car was checked and double checked then i had it back for two days then it was at AVA the nite before we left to check it all again.

rapidcossie

just wheel spun when you put the boost down...

my car usually stays quite straight but it did start to go.

carlo

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Fook driving that monster in the wet

rapidcossie

its a bit..........slidy mate

Ollie.

You out on thursday Euan?

Carlo you should come up to falkirk with us.

Christian and Beccy

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Euan, did you not see the amount of Rabbits on the runway??!!

Gary even wiped one out of the way to recover me!!

rapidcossie

will defo be there mate but the car wont...

will be at usual bit...look for andy's evo and the P1

you actually going to come over this time?

rapidcossie

you could take us a run in the M3 carlo

carlo

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I will need to get up ollie a wil wait till the better weather