Chip

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Anyone know what it is?

Whats andy nichols current best time on road legals?

What about hodson with the mk2 golf?

Any other really quick ones out there?

Some of the vauxhall lads want to know how far they are off the quickest ever pace with their cars? (fastest vauxhalls are running 11.5 and 11.6)


One for the redline lads perhaps, as they must be familiar with most of the fastest ones?

CossieRich

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I eagelyl await rs2.7's reply to this

Chip

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Saying, well an xr2 would easily do 8s if.....



Id rather keep this thread just as factual please, rather than all his random wild guesses at what stuff might do or could do or should do.

Luca

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I have the following saved for some reason but that highlights times

James Hodson, of Jabbasport, romped away to a 10.66 second pass to claim the title as the fastest FWD ever to blitz the sticky tarmac at the Pod.

James set a blistering sprint. His 60ft time, an indication of how well a car is gripping and launching - as well as the drivers reaction time - was a neck snapping 1.5 seconds, while 60mph was dispatched in just 3.3 seconds. The Jabbasport-fettled 1.8t engine retains a relatively mild street tune, including the ubiquitous Subaru derived IHI turbo and standard internals, to produce no more than 360bhp. Racing slicks, trick suspension and a 50bhp shot of NOS rocket this ballistic Golf to the finishing line

Luca

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However not road legal tyres!

alan12112

do I come close? 14.50

Luca

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Just foound this too..

AET's Andy Nicholls achieved a new European record in his awesome Rover 200 at the recent Peak Performance Test and Tune day at Santa Pod Raceway.
In his Rover 200 Andy achieved a 1/4 mile time of 10.2secs @138mph.August 2007.

Chip

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Luca, neither of those are on road legal tyres, im ONLY interested in road legal.

Thanks for looking anyway though mate

m_nettleship

i remeber a twin engined golf, going well years ago.

but i also remeber reading about a guys fiesta rs turbo, Sunny Kahlsa, or was this a high speed machine.

i also think who gonna say if they was road legal tyres or not.

Chip

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twin engined fwd golf?

Or are you confused, lol


Sunny's car never ran a vaguely quick quarter time, it did some good top speeds though (nearly 180)

m_nettleship

sure it was, was a mark 1 or 2, light green. might have been 4x4, but one of the fastest things i ever seen.

costina

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Did'nt chris Todds fiesta do some good times when it was FWD??

Paul

Chip

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Ive never heard of ANY twin engined car being FWD, the engine in the back tends to drive the rear wheels mate when people make these things

Chip

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nope, not in terms of quicker than these vauxhalls (ie under 11.5) nor is any other UK ford ive ever heard of.

Luca

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Well until we find the correct information, you best stick some racing drags on the Vauxhalls, if they beat the times above then they should be the faster car

Chip

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LOL

Lot more to it than that of course!

Charlie Chalk

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Was 4x4, and they made an orange Mk1 Golf which was RWD and Mid mounted VR6 turbo.



Remember both of them in a Max Power feature when I used to buy it

crazycage

off topic a bit but but what would it take to get a fwd ford into the 11s ??do the vaux lads run nos?

Chip

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well a similar power to weight ratio and a similar amount of grip to the vauxhall lads would do it, lol

some of the vauxhall lads use gas, others dont.

11.6 is the best I know of without nitrous

timrud

I don't understand why the Vaux boys don't use slicks.

Bit silly, there is something there which is cheap that can make a hell of a difference to your cars time.... yet they don't use them

You don't get extra internet willy waving points for road tyres.

Chip

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Cause they want to run it how they brung it?

Ie in the form they can go and use it on the road if they want?

Makes perfect sense to me.

danneth

i kinda agree chip, but what do you get for been the quickest on road tyres? nothing been the quickest in general is surely alot better even if it is on slicks

timrud

So you would rather be upto a second off the potential of the car, just so you can say you run it how it goes on the road?

Even though places like pod, the surface isn't like a "road" is it, with all the additives they put on it. Might as well use a tyre that takes advantage of it.

Seems a rather primitive attitude.

TBH even with slicks they would not get near Andy Nicholls time of 10.2.

Chip

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Well, for being quickest road legal, you win stuff like trophys at Ten of the best.

None of the vauxhalls lads I know of compete in any drag series where slicks are allowed, they just do run what you brungs.

I guess for internet bollocks posting about how fast you are the slicks would help, but they arent really into that much anyway IME.

Chip

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I think its just down to they only want to make changes to their car if they can still use it as a fast road car, as they all tend to like using their cars on the road.

They keep beating andy on treads, but you might be right about slicks, I dont know, or care really, and neither do any of them so far that ive seen, as they all just want very fast road legal cars.

Luca

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Agreed, more fun being road legal and retaining its original chassis/look still rather than trailored everywhere...

Otherwise the front would be tubbed, tube chassis and the widest tyre fitted blah blah blah....

crazycage

what sort of power to weight ratio they got ?? i get really good off the line grip but have never been up th strip but wouldnt think i could do much better than a high 12. with around 330bhp so what sort of nos kit should i get and what size jets ?

timrud

On the road you have to be road legal, so your limited to what tyres you run.

When your not on the road you can run what you want.

I bet the vaux boys take headlights out. Same thing IMO, not legal for the road, but fine off it. And they only do it to make there cars faster.

Homer.

are some of the honda lads in the uk not running low 10's now as well? couldnt comment on what tyres they are using though...

jb fletch

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A good friend of both mine & SpanishFly's runs an 11.6 in a chage'd Civic Type-R !!

danneth

yes but on slicks i believe

Chip

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The ones im talking about here, dont do anything like taking headlights out, theyre cars are FULLY road legal as they run them.


Anyway, if you want to start a thread about what tyres you think people should run for a quarter, feel free to do so, but if possible I would like this one to actually be about quick road legal cars as per how it started.

Luca

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I know of a Civic doing low 10sec passes but just awaiting to here back to see what tyres he runs

Chip

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It will be slicks I suspect mate.

I have never heard of any UK fwd car doing 10s on slicks, and im sure it would be all over every car forum if one did so!

crazycage

loads have done it on slicks lol

Luca

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Pm on its way mate

Oranoco

Personally the only times I'm interested in are the times my car puts in as it runs on the road everyday., hence why nothing comes out of the car and thetires are road legal and run at the pressures they do on the road.

Chip

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Lol in my arse there.

I did of course mean NOT on slicks.

AustenW

I was with Andy that day helping him prep the car with his brother

Best time was 10.2 @ 138mph, I've video'd the run and put it on youtube

He was launching in second gear and was running drag slicks, car is Taxed and MOT'd so still road legal

Car was missing badly on the 10.2 run do to blowing the spark out as we had fitted a MSD ignition system the week before, since then this has been sorted out

Car will easily do a 9 sec pass if it all holds together with the new spec, just had a full rebuild after snaping a rod at Pod a few weeks ago

BRIGSPORT

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Anyway, if you want to start a thread about what tyres you think people should run for a quarter, feel free to do so, but if possible I would like this one to actually be about quick road legal cars as per how it started.[/quote]

So, your threads should remain on topic, but the ones you comment on usually go way off topic, usually down to the amount of arguing the toss that you like to get involved in.
Double standards anyone?

I feel that in light of this, it is my civic (fwd on slicks) duty to post a load of argumentative bollocks that turns a good thread, that may interest a lot of people, into 4 or 5 pages of shit that nobody enjoys, and would result in chip filling an entire page with one post full of quotes from other people, and his answers to said opinions.

As it happens, i am a car enthusiast, and as such, i like to read about things that interest me regarding cars. In particular, i have purchased a 1982 chevy camaro, complete with a 5.0 v8, and i also have a rather large truck turbo sat in my shed, so when someone posts a thread with a similar setup/way of doing things, the potential information for a conversion is huge. And the fact that the thread was at the 4 page mark the last time i looked, would indicate that a wealth of knowledge could be contained in said post.

But all i could see was a couple of pics, and then a load of fookin argumentative, post quoting, thread ruining shit.

If it really is so trivial chip, why bother with it? Can you appreciate that some people come on this website to enjoy the knowledge that can be found on here, and in some cases will influence the way people go with their projects.

Please feel free to hit the ignore button at any time.