went to santa pod today and saw some monsters running, the most impressive was a Honda Civic which ran an 11.09 quarter is that fecking quick or what

anybody know the car, spec?

 

Don't know if it was the same car, but one of the FWD Civics put in a 10.6 at the end of the day.
Superb day, LOTs of 8s and 9s...

 

Wonder how many cars Santa Pod wont be letting back then with their new rules, that they havent actually told anyone about yet

 

???

 

explain?

 

They are starting to enforce some rules for sub 10s and 150+ cars.....but as yet, havent exactly explained what,

Mick Begley's Jun Lemon was one of the first victims of this when it ran a sub 10 just after TOTB at Santa Pod.
They told him he couldnt enter JapShow as a RWYB entry, and had to enter in Pro class, with full cage etc....

 

would have thought u would have had a full cage if u were doing those sort of times

 

A cage in a road car is intrusive, and can be dangerous if not wearing a helmet, which you dont normally do in a road car.
So if that is the cars main use.....fitting items like that can be very unwelcome.


If Santa Pod want to impose rules, they need to tell the people what the rules are.
And if they are going to start enforcing NHRA style rules, then there isnt a single "modern" car on the scene today, that would comply with these rules, cage or no cage.

 

sorry this a bit off topic but are u building a new engine for ur car?

 

I have just repaired/rebuilt my old engine a couple of weeks ago, although still need to sort a few things before its running properly again, but it is running again.

 

A local guy to us has a RX7 that broke into the 9's, I heard that he was moved up a class due to that, god to hear its coming together for him at last though Air bag suspension too

Were the civics on road legal rubber ? you can improve by 1 second from using proper slicks over 888's for example.

I presume these rules only count on cars that are competing ? rwyb cars shouldn't fall into those categories unless maybe doing 150 passes ?

 

Was this a grey EG civic by any chance?

 

If those times are on road legal rubber thats fucking awesome, even on slicks its still cool too of course

 

yes it was, very fast civic its running Ł450 bhp i know this cuz we mapped it

 

the civic had slicks on the front, apparently its running standard cams, standard gearbox and only 1.2 bar of boost

 

a little video of it on gordons dyno


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOrADx9Sav4

the owner is nuts its all about the speed the car is ragged

 

you selling them shitty wheels yet, as a special deal I will throw in a set of Rondels

 

dropped the Cossie off with Gordon today just arrived and dumped it, 350hp here we come




....then a new clutch

 

Is that the the Civic that looked like it had been abused? (dented wing and door)

The bikes were awesome, just a shame there weren't any more...

And as for the Jet car

My mate got himself a 12.02 in his Pulsar, not much done to it either

I'll see if I can find the vids my mate took on his N95. Ignore the chav in the cap on some of the vids

edited: here they are

http://www.youtube.com/user/MajorSarcasm

 

Ive been in this civic when it was running in the low 12s and it was brutal it was a b18 now its running a b20 and i think its same turbo and around 1.2 bar