fastest escort rs turbo-quarter mile
08-08-2013, 02:33 PM
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08-08-2013, 09:07 PM
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..would be good to run mine and yours together since we couldnt the last time at santa pod lol would be good because i should run 12.9 with r888s so will tryagain.. so if you pop down let me know pal would be good to have some fun 
08-08-2013, 09:48 PM
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Is this thread only for RST's? I ran a 13.7 in my n/a mk4, I think I can bring this down slightly though as front tyres weren't great and my box is crunchy into 2nd 
09-08-2013, 10:21 PM
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when you next running mate at quarter mile run..would be good to run mine and yours together since we couldnt the last time at santa pod lol would be good because i should run 12.9 with r888s so will tryagain.. so if you pop down let me know pal would be good to have some fun
..would be good to run mine and yours together since we couldnt the last time at santa pod lol would be good because i should run 12.9 with r888s so will tryagain.. so if you pop down let me know pal would be good to have some fun 
I going to try 15's on the rear with some sticky tyres so will be looking for new pb! I will take a spare diff just incase lol
09-08-2013, 11:07 PM
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Me and a few mates were going to attend the "Saturday night special" ( http://www.rwyb.co.uk/sat_night_special.php ) where they run till 9pm so nice cool intake temps I going to try 15's on the rear with some sticky tyres so will be looking for new pb! I will take a spare diff just incase lol
I going to try 15's on the rear with some sticky tyres so will be looking for new pb! I will take a spare diff just incase lol
30-12-2013, 10:22 AM
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Why is it ERST seem to get poor 1/4 mile times? high 12s and low 13s people are doing with pretty much stock c25xe (2.5 V6)conversions into novas and running them times.
Its a genuine question, if there are any bits i can improve on my car while it is currently a work in progress then i dont mind investing abit more into it.
Its a genuine question, if there are any bits i can improve on my car while it is currently a work in progress then i dont mind investing abit more into it.
30-12-2013, 11:12 AM
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Thanks Glen 
There was a lot of controversy about my Escort, and a lot of people getting the facts wrong, like where and when, and timing gear problems, other cars doing 9 second passes ect act
Ill hunt out the paperwork and give you the FACTS
RS 5tu …. there are a lot of little tricks and advantages you can gain to improve your times in a RST, Its not all about power, its about Traction
There was a lot of controversy about my Escort, and a lot of people getting the facts wrong, like where and when, and timing gear problems, other cars doing 9 second passes ect act
Ill hunt out the paperwork and give you the FACTS
RS 5tu …. there are a lot of little tricks and advantages you can gain to improve your times in a RST, Its not all about power, its about Traction
30-12-2013, 11:23 AM
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Thanks Glen
There was a lot of controversy about my Escort, and a lot of people getting the facts wrong, like where and when, and timing gear problems, other cars doing 9 second passes ect act
Ill hunt out the paperwork and give you the FACTS
RS 5tu . there are a lot of little tricks and advantages you can gain to improve your times in a RST, Its not all about power, its about Traction
There was a lot of controversy about my Escort, and a lot of people getting the facts wrong, like where and when, and timing gear problems, other cars doing 9 second passes ect act
Ill hunt out the paperwork and give you the FACTS
RS 5tu . there are a lot of little tricks and advantages you can gain to improve your times in a RST, Its not all about power, its about Traction
30-12-2013, 11:51 AM
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The truth !!!
Give me a few hours to get all the details, but yes the white Escort that was sponsered by SVM was mine, the 11.9 was achieved at York drag strip on the 30th August 1998 and it was at the PERFORMANCE FORD shoot out, so Only FORDS ! so all these storys about santa pod and other cars running 9's is incorrect, also i heard that people were saying there were other cars including R'5 that got wrong times due to timing problems, again incorrect, it was Fords only for starters and there were NO problems with the timing gear on that day, and there were NO car's that had incorrect times.
NOW …. WHEN IT COMES TO THE JET CAR…….. IN ALL HONESTY IT DID HELP WITH MY TIME
It was doing a demo in the righthand lane, so spent several minutes doing the flames and edging forward, as soon as it had done its pass they waved me on to do my run, in the same lane, as i approached the line i went to do a burn out and it didn't spin at all… the jet car had heated the strip up so much that it felt like i had super slick drag tires on
I also had launch control (Armtech) so set the revs to 5k and it didn't even brake traction, my 60ft time dropped from my std 2.3 - 2.4 sec to 1.795 !!!!!! and that is how it then dropped my 1/8 from my std high 8's to 7.545 and carried on to 11.994 SECONDS !
Unfortunately my gearbox didn't appreciate the extra grip and I had to limp the car home, Shortly after i was out with my sister and was showing off and crashed :-( So that was the end of that, Ill upload some pics of the damaged car :-( luckily no one was hurt and i learnt my lesson and have calmed down, I was only 22 yrs old.
Hope this has finally cleared it all up and although I had a BIG advantage on the 11.9 sec run, it did actually do it and the timing gear was correct
NOW …. WHEN IT COMES TO THE JET CAR…….. IN ALL HONESTY IT DID HELP WITH MY TIME
It was doing a demo in the righthand lane, so spent several minutes doing the flames and edging forward, as soon as it had done its pass they waved me on to do my run, in the same lane, as i approached the line i went to do a burn out and it didn't spin at all… the jet car had heated the strip up so much that it felt like i had super slick drag tires on
I also had launch control (Armtech) so set the revs to 5k and it didn't even brake traction, my 60ft time dropped from my std 2.3 - 2.4 sec to 1.795 !!!!!! and that is how it then dropped my 1/8 from my std high 8's to 7.545 and carried on to 11.994 SECONDS !
Unfortunately my gearbox didn't appreciate the extra grip and I had to limp the car home, Shortly after i was out with my sister and was showing off and crashed :-( So that was the end of that, Ill upload some pics of the damaged car :-( luckily no one was hurt and i learnt my lesson and have calmed down, I was only 22 yrs old.
Hope this has finally cleared it all up and although I had a BIG advantage on the 11.9 sec run, it did actually do it and the timing gear was correct
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30-12-2013, 12:16 PM
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Dean - proper old skool story! The car had big power CVH, jacked up rear etc... and went to York where it ran several mid 13s. Then a jet car ran, this RST ran straight after and the time came back as an 11.9...@110mph. The car never got near the time again, and much argument was had over whether it was a timing error or not - which it clearly was.
Dean - proper old skool story! The car had big power CVH, jacked up rear etc... and went to York where it ran several mid 13s. Then a jet car ran, this RST ran straight after and the time came back as an 11.9...@110mph. The car never got near the time again, and much argument was had over whether it was a timing error or not - which it clearly was.
30-12-2013, 12:19 PM
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30-12-2013, 12:22 PM
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By the end of our development with the 1.6 cvh we were running 127mph terminals but still around the 12.6 Qtr times as a road going car, because getting any more traction off the line seems very difficult with the ERST chassis and road tyres. There's no doubt that if we had built a dedicated drag car version, it would have run easily into the 11's, but then thats the problem with fwd cars, its very hard to have a fast qtr mile car that is fast round a circuit too!
So I think in summary once you have around 300bhp mid 12's are possible on road tyres, and increasing power after this, does little for the time, it simply pushes the terminal speed up.
So I think in summary once you have around 300bhp mid 12's are possible on road tyres, and increasing power after this, does little for the time, it simply pushes the terminal speed up.
30-12-2013, 12:34 PM
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My second best time was a mid 12 at Santa pod a few weeks earlier to the 11.9, I'll scan it it once I've found it, I'm pretty sure it was about 2.0 60ft, mid 8's at the 1/8 th
Im looking for it now
Im looking for it now
30-12-2013, 12:41 PM
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We always ran aroun 2.0 - 2.1 60ft's to achieve the mid 12 runs, so in theory if we'd been able to get a 1.7 60ft a sub 12 is possible with 300bhp!!!
Regards the 11.99 run the problem will always be that if you only did it once it will ALWAYS be sceptical regardless of whether you did it or not! If you'd done it twice there'd be no doubt at all!
Regards the 11.99 run the problem will always be that if you only did it once it will ALWAYS be sceptical regardless of whether you did it or not! If you'd done it twice there'd be no doubt at all!
30-12-2013, 01:22 PM
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Here you are Karl, this is a scan of the timing slip from the 11.9 run and the other is from santapod 6 weeks before,mine is the G281, full reg was G281 DSF hope that helps back it up, funnily enough the car that beet me at the pod had similar times to my 11.9 that i did at York !
30-12-2013, 02:02 PM
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on the topic whatever became of olis red s1 rst karl? b18 pwr its not on sorn and says unlicensed for a few year now? was one of my favourites
30-12-2013, 02:58 PM
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Hi Dave, I was only third party when i had the crash, so had to get it repaired and then sold it to pay for the repairs and things i hit, so i didn't have to claim against my insurance , the lad who bought it off me knew the full story about the crash and had seen the before/during and after pics, he just wanted it for the power and the fact it was in a few magazines. I heard from severnvally motorsport a year or so later that the new owner had taken it to "A LOCAL GARAGE" to have the fueling adjusted as he wasn't happy with the weekly tuning and poor fuel economy ..lol
It then blew up…. ( probably running too lean )
It then blew up…. ( probably running too lean )
30-12-2013, 03:05 PM
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There is a few video's of my skylines on youtube, just put in "Nathan Scaddan", funny thing is i had the opposite problem to the Escort, I had plenty of power but NO traction,
i simply ran out of money to sort out the suspension and tires on the skylines, I must admit the Skylines were fun from a rolling start (motorway's) lol
i simply ran out of money to sort out the suspension and tires on the skylines, I must admit the Skylines were fun from a rolling start (motorway's) lol
30-12-2013, 03:45 PM
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Hi Nathan,
Sadly your santa pod timing slip is bogus!
looking at the 1/8th and qtr times of 8.22@86 and 12.30@107 it is impossible for your car to travel the last 1/8th in 4.08secs. (We've done literally hundreds of santa pod runs so I know what a car at these speed levels does each 1/8th in)
By calculation the last 1/8th should have taken around 4.7 seconds giving an actual qtr mile of around 12.8 - 12.9.
I think the picture of the timing slip has been doctored.
Sadly your santa pod timing slip is bogus!
looking at the 1/8th and qtr times of 8.22@86 and 12.30@107 it is impossible for your car to travel the last 1/8th in 4.08secs. (We've done literally hundreds of santa pod runs so I know what a car at these speed levels does each 1/8th in)
By calculation the last 1/8th should have taken around 4.7 seconds giving an actual qtr mile of around 12.8 - 12.9.
I think the picture of the timing slip has been doctored.
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30-12-2013, 06:48 PM
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