as above whats the fastest rs turbo quarter mile time? i have run 13.1 but i reckon with better tyres and touch more boost it will definately drop in to a late 12 second pass.. who ran the fastest.. just curious as theres loads if fast rs turbos around in the past and currently .. is it 12.7 that stuart collins done..? apperently time butcfhers did a 12 .8 in a grey rs turbo.. christians car ran 14s i hear back then..

 

How's the gearbox?

 

replaced..your car seen the road yet?

 

Just finishing my gearbox, mtx. You didn't waste more money on a ib5 did you

 

thats exactly what i done lol..using quaiffe in a ib5 gearbox shot peened.. should last a few months..will go down the mtx route over the winter

 

Sounds like it will be a fast car.

 

was mo's not doing 12s runs? that car was impressive on the strip

 

stu ran a 12.6 at classic ford

 

What did Tim Butch do in his a few yrs back?? I know the terminal was in the 120s iirc??

 

i done 12.9 in the xr3 with std bottom end, must be nearly 8 years ago now. It wasnt built for straight line drag racing either.

 

sitech racing was the last I heard 12.65 122mph
tim the grey nms car 12.69.124mph
think stu as more power now in the white cvh escort and done 12.7 before so could go faster now

 

Here's a few times

http://www.escortrsturbo.co.uk/forum...hp?t12185.html

 

My old one would have been in the 12's I reckon if it had been fitted with the final bits needed, although was an XR3i running a 2.1ZVH with cossie management.

Not sure about 1.6CVH's.

 

lol mi9ne aint either mate just happened to run 13.1 which is why i think on some proper tyres it should drop into the 12s and touch more boost to push the car futher in to the late 12s theres vids of it on youtube

 

thats fast! not seen you about mate lately

 

 

Good rubber will make all the difference.

 

Weirdly I got a quicker time (by 0.2) in my Golf on Kumho KU31 road tyres than R888s (Yes I know 888s aren't drag tyres)

 

gvk what time did you run mate out of curiousity? i might run r888s next time are the kumho ones better then or was it just a lucky launch ? i raced a mk2 ages back with a TT engine in it and my mate has a mk1 with a supercharged g60 engine

 

Mine was a VR6 with a few mods (205hp on a DD rollers), 14.1 @ 100 best time.

More of a track day car than 1/4 mile with 3° negative camber.

Wouldn't say I'm a pro at launching but it really makes all the difference doesn't it?

 

i done a 13.4 in my s1 van few year back at york got a standard lsd in 20psi

 

Sitechs car was the fastest unless stu's car did lower than a 12.65

 

Is everyone forgetting the famed 11.9 pass by the Severn Valley ERST back in 1998?


EDIT: It's so old I can;t even find a picture of the car now!

 

I remember that white s2 jacked up at the rear with venom alloys no one seemed to believe it as his quickest other runs was 13.6

 

Never heard of this get digging and find the pic

 

its in fast ford feb 1999 I will try and take 1 or 2 pics of it

 

Whenever i think of escort rs turbo cars doing the 1/4 mile i think of that jacked up s2 with venoms lol that was a while back now!

 

the best I can do as no scanner

 

That's the boy!

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.

 

still on good old mfi lol

 

I remember that!! Still an impressive car mind even though the time was obviously wrong.

 

'Not Pf approved - fail!'

 

Lol!!! The timing board messed up at pod this weekend about five cars ran low 9's in a row one of which was a rover zt lol!

 

don't no what mine did was a 12.6 sumthin was my mate driving it wouldn't go in to 3rd and had the nice wobble on at the end lol(that's sorted now) was only on 23psi tho not the 29psi it can run so a lot more to cum if can get the launch rite

 

my 5dr did a 13.2 @110 last year standard engine newman cam st3 t3 2bar boost on mfi and 75 shot of gas lol

 

Check your slip if you still have it stu

 

didn't bother with it mate as was just a test and wasn't rite still , it was .1 or .3 or .9 I think but not 100% so don't really matter

I no it did 13.0 @115 with passenger and last run was a 12.7 @115 cos it over boosted and cut the power

 

lol impressive

 

yup pretty much all on the launch that makes it as long as you change gears clean and fast.. its all about getting it off the line as quick as you can.. all i did was rev it up and dump the clutch and hoped for the best lol must have worked because every run was 13s lol the last run got 13.1 and then gave it a rest and went home lol

 

haha i wouldnt mind if they made my runs 9s on all of them