Anonymous

Simon - you think anyone would actually turn up

SPADGE

Cheeky coont
I did have a saff briefly and then saw sense and went back to a 3 door
Hows your pink wrc replica coming along Dave

Eagle

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i personally think some form of a ford competition would be good .. i would turn up dingly .. then brake down and go home as would most of the others

could have variations like...
totb oil consumption...
totb fuel consumption...
totb bulliten board arguments
totb breakdowns on the way to shows

at least we might win some of them

NIL 7090

I agree simon ANY FORD, ANY MODS AND A BIG SET OF BALL'S required
then there can be no excuse.
now please nobody bite my head off as this is only my opinion,a thousand apology's if i do very sorry,sorry sorry there that shouldn't offend any one but you never know.And i would just like to thank every one who comes along and supports me at totb

DaveEscos

oooh.. below the fookin belt!

Dan

Whats happened to Steve and his car? Aint been online alot in the last week or so, so haven't heard, sorry if it's been posted before?

craig todd

Dan

Aint read the whole thread but that is funny as fuck!

Eagle

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Anonymous

Actually Totb & then the Supercar Topspeed event will be my last 2 events before i stop competing so no need to ban me . Think its a good idea but its been tried before & most turn up & expect badly set-up cars to perform, these events take a lot of effort & testing for instance will be testing at Brunters soon & will be trying to destroy my clutch to see how much abuse it can be given before failing & then fitting a new one for totb, its an expensive game if you want to be competative.
Rod

Jon(m600)

Is Steve Scott still entering?

marco polo

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yes he is


I know this is called TEN Of THE BEST , why haven't we got 10 cossies ?

fook it , it's joke ............. look at last yrs only a handfull cossies and the same this yr i'm staying at home

I'll give it to Rod fair play to him at least he is always up for it and gets the car done in time no one can knock him for that don't care who they are

Fair play Rod Keep the Ford Flag flying hi and all the best good luck

Marco

chris-m

still awaiting news on steve scott , emailed mike tonight to find out. hopefully his car will still be there, must stand a good chance of the overall champion spot.


btw for the person who asked about the home built 11s fwd car, its not a golf!
its red, wears an MG badge and will be competing on the day this year

marco polo

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Chris

I spoke to Pete 4x4 tonight , Steve is out of hospital he is walking about he should be able to make it he is not 100% fit because of his accident but will do his best to be there

Marco

gtir430

what i dont understand is surely u can get 10 cars with under 12.5 which is all thats asked of the 4*4 guys at least it would get a good crowd of ford owners attending if nothing else

aduz

so i take it not many are going then?

marco polo

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Hi mate

yes we can ,but we want to field 10 cars which are 500+ bhp and above

so if you have got 400bhp and less your car is a waste of time basically

"what happens is" the guys that have got the big bhp cossies say their going then either they don't pay or the cars are not ready in time or they have broken down in the mean time

because theres no back up thats why we don't have a team ..

if i'm honest a 400 bhp 4wd wouldn't be any good aginst say a 700bhp Skyline Gtr

so thats the main reason why we want the big power cossies there

Marco

4x4pete

Steve has walked around his room and he is waiting to see if they will let him come home he should find out thursday afternoon but he is not in good shape at the mo

I know steve wants too do this but only time will tell

sorry

marco polo

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No , I'm not going , fook it altho i love cars but i'm a ford man and want to see the fords do well i can't be arsed to watch 4 cossies going up the strip

Marco

sbd16v

chris can you really call an racings car home grown and does its 11.4 mean anything considering it was on slicks at the time now the 11.8 he has done on road tires is alot more pleasing

marco polo

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Hi Pete

you got home ok then ?

Marco

SPADGE

Surely its not all about ultimate performance or we may all as well go and buy one of those fookin twin motorbike engined 500kg plastic roller skates that other people call cars Get some cars with a bit of heritage to totb and not just a load of mobile Nintendo's, yank barge gas guzzlers , and assorted shonky fwd sheds

4x4pete

Yeah i got home in the end chers that was a trek thanks again


(OFF topic Marco top bloke)

marco polo

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Spadge

when i asked Mike this last yr about performance he said anything less than 500bhp wasn't good enough and mainly because of the skyline boys

I qualified @ the cossie qualifers in finished 9th out of 11 cars which were all over 500bhp and wasted told that i was in the team

so i thought that i wasn't in ,it was only when Rod told me that i was in that i knew about it but was a bit too late so i thought fook it never again

i'll just stick to my track days better fun

Marco

marco polo

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No worries

SPADGE

Seems to be a lot of indecision and moving of goal posts in the cossie team selection to me just as there has been for the last 3 years Marco!
I see you said earlier that Rod is always up for it and gets his car ready in time but i think you will find Rod has so far done just TOTB 1 and not 2 or 3! Not knocking Rod as he does as he chooses like the rest of us but just putting you straight Marco!
I dropped out last year near to the event as i just couldn't seem to feel enthused by it as i was the previous year

chris-m

well he built it himself, at home, in his back garage, and then mapped it himself, on the road and on hired rollers, so i'd say it counts as home grown!

and yes his best on road tyres is 11.8s which is still awesome for fwd.

stevieturbo

But 10 entries would be better to watch, and provide more for spectators.

Dont forget, there are 3 categories. A lower powered car may still do ok in the 1/4, do very well in the handling, and ok on the top speed.

Still worth entering, if the owner/driver wants to.

My biggest moan about the event, is most entries are not road cars. They may have MOT's etc, but that doesnt mean they are road legal.

A lot of cars are post 92. How many still run cats ? WRC cars etc still do, as they have to be road legal, so should road legal entries.

An emissions test in scrutineering would sort a few of them out lol with them having to pass a test applicable to year of manufacture.

IMO, all cars should be driven to and from the event, carry full seating arrangement+glass as it left teh factory, use normal pump fuel only, and whatever tyres they start the event on, they must finish all 3 categories using them.
Some exceptions to the trim could be made for fitments of cages etc.

I'd like to see some of the guys on Mickey Thompson ET Street drag tyres doing the handling track lol

The event is all about money, but hopefully there will still be a few true road cars there that will do good times, and get recognition for it.

Any car that arrives on a trailer, should be excluded from the event IMO.

sbd16v

all of the above is a great idea but iff all cars have to be in standard trim you have just deff turned it into a who has the biggest wallet

mark_J

Why is the there only 5 Fords now, have I missed something, I thought there was 10?

Ok Steve Scott is a maybe, but what about the rest?

STEVEN BAYLISS FORD ORION ZVH TURBO 300
Paul JOHNSON FIESTA RS TURBO 400+
LEE CATERMOLE SIERRA COSWORTH 450
ROD TARRY SIERRA COSWORTH 700+
Steve FITZPATRICK FORD SIERRA RS COSWORTH 500+
JC FORD SIERRA RS COSWORTH 500+
Steve SCOTT FOCUS RS 600+
RENTON-REDLINE MAGAZINE SIERRA COSWORTH 600+
NICK LEWIS SIERRA COSWORTH 500
STEVIE ROSS SUPERCHARGED GRANADA 500+

sbd16v

lol as per my post there is ten lol

mark_J

Thats what I thought

People need to stop picking at TOTB, for me its the best show of the year

sbd16v

stevieturbo, so what about striped out cars with perspex windows , no heaters and doors cut out etc etc to save on weight if there used for maybe one track day a year and a couplr of rwtb days and the reat of the time is spent driving on he road as a day to day car ???????

marco polo

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LOL we are suppose to have 10 cossie

and 10 Fwd rst

mark_J

Better then 5 tho! And the ones running are very good spec!

Mike Rainbird

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FFS will people PLEASE learn to read . How can you blame the organisers for people's inability to send their money off in time . Once the deadline is past, the spaces for the Cossie team is then opened up to others waiting in the sidelines and so the spaces go IMMEDIATELY. However, EVERY year, we have been allocated TEN spaces - this year, we even had problems getting ten cars to the qualifying . And if you look at the requirements there are NO bhp limits, it is down to achieved / achievable TIMES . So PLEASE learn to read before posting FFS, or are you all really THAT stupid ?

Anonymous

spot on there, its not TOTB's fault that people fail to come up with the goods in time.

Ish

the qualifying standard set for the cossies 4wd was "The performance figures required are:4x4s - 11s (or less) quarters, 170+mph top speed in 1.25 miles and good handling. "

SPADGE

Mike reading the thread and then replying would be boring its far more interesting ignoring the facts and seing you getting your knickers in a twist

Anonymous

Spadge, technically they arent his knickers, they are his wife's, but he just likes wearing them for some reason???