Kev.H

u must be living it for real as ur full of shit

RichardPON

Must make you a dreamer then Phil

K3V HA

You deffo not a dreamer then Phil!!

Kev.H

maybe i should sell the FRS buy an escort build a big engine never fit it and take over the world all at the same time

Anonymous

Makes perfect sense to me Rod quitting.

He has achieved everything he wanted to and more with the car.

Its been a fantastic publicity tool for his good friend Mark Shead.

Its brought him lots of pleasure doing the runs.


I see no point him in continuing now, his car has got to the point where its on the brink of FAILING to do what he wanted it to, it was always supposed to be a completely no compromise road car, and the clutch he has to use now is a pig for him to use, so its starting to get away from that fast road car he wanted.

Makes far more sense to me if he drops it down a turbo size, and just goes back to enjoying being an OAP hooligan in it


Going out on the high point of the 5th gear shoot also makes perfect sense to me

Mike Rainbird

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If Rod does 216mph at Brunters, it will be an EXTREMELY difficult speed to beat in the confines of this runway, and I think his record will stand for quite some time .

Steven_RW

216!!! lol

MADNESS

RW

Mr Brannen

Andy.F Scoob type R

Hi All

The car is permanent 4WD, the Sti type R has a 34/66% rear torque split, if you are rough enough (as I am ) then you can handbrake the front wheels and dump the clutch on the rears to do a burnout. Not so good for the box though as on my next run at totb I snapped a shaft !

The 210mph is not something I intend to try again, the car was most unstable up there, watching the in car footage shows the car rocking slightly from side to side as (presumeably) the air is escaping from beneath it As someone said, who knows what aero is going on at that speed in a car that comes from Japan with a 112mph limiter on it

Andy

Anonymous

So no chance of ever doing a topspeed run at brunters/york on the gas then andy?

Andy.F Scoob type R

You offering to drive ? The car is set up to run an 80 shot on the 1/4m

Looking back my datalogs I was only on WOT for the last run from 3rd upwards, the previous runs I was also lifting off in 4th/5th due to a bit yaw and rock which is not so nice at that speed. Then i got brave (or stupid ? )

By sheer coincidence the TPS trace on my datalog is Brown

Andy

aduz

go yer pussy go for more

respect m8

RichardPON

That's some 1/4 mile time as well

rapidcossie

well done andy!

Anonymous

Nope not offering in the slightest, you can get stuffed on that one im afraid mate

PMSL @ brown datalog

Mike Rainbird

iTrader: (3)

Andy,
Any chance of posting up specs for your car, as I'm sure it would make interesting reading .

Could the yaw have been induced by the drag radials? As they don't look the best sort of tyres to do high speed runs with .

I see you lost your fat passenger this time .

Porkie

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Welcome to PassionFord Andy, AWESOME achievement

Respect

sbd16v

when can i start

Andy.F Scoob type R

Yes Mike, the drag radials are an issue for sure but there's not a lot of 17" tyre choice at 660mm/26" for this speed rating. Not without spending circa Ł2k anyway which is not currently on my 'to do' list

Andy

sbd16v

i would hate to do 200+ on them tyres althou i have been a little silly with them myself

the night before totb was the first time i had a chance to drive with the tyres on so thought i had better take them out for a little scrubbing in and as it was one of the first times i had driven the astra turbo'd i gave it some it had been raining for a little while at this piont but i never expeted it to accerlerate so fast so ended up going to a higer spend than i planed got to about 150 and the car got a little shaky so slowed down then hit some water on the road sent me from the midle lane to the outside i shit myself so decided it was time to slow down lots and they aint much better in the dry at 150 they were pulling me all over the place

Dee

Hey guys, myself and my husband Jon helped Andy organise this day and it was amazing to see the man in action. To think that the car was still picking up at the end of the track is amazing. I'm still on a high from the day even now so I would think that Andy is the happiest guy about at the moment.

I was speaking to the guy from Straight liners and he said that the other fastest car they've had was a skyline and Andy beat that with ease.

I did hint that something was going to happen in this >>thread

Thanks for the great day out Andy and the champagne afterwards I bet you're glad that I kept saying about beating the cossies record now *sorry passionford readers, you know I love you all really, runs and hides*

There will be a full feature in a Subaru magazine soon.

Anonymous

Welcome to the Cossie world Andy, i trust you get a little less aggro than I do from a few idiots on here.
Can you please tell them what its like at 200+ reached in such a short distance they tell me its boring & straight line stuff is easy .
Awesome achievment buddy.

Kevin Sharp

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well done andy and welcome i,ll be back at crail next year to try and catch you!

Anonymous

This chap has just got up my nose, roll on the 13th & 212+ mph.


ps. Phil actually rang Mark to see if he had really upset me, Have spent every night for a month fettling my car its unlikely that someone like Phil will stop me, had him worried though.


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iansp8

well done that man
any one know where i can give the top speed thing ago, i'd like to see what i can pull, i have been told by a certain tuner that it will do stupid top end and would just like to see if they are full of it

Snowy_Astra

Is there a video yet?

Anonymous

Brunters is Ł50 hour, but you will need timing gear your speedo aint much use .
Rod

Smit

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Rod - If you read carefully 'Dee' is a female

Andy.F Scoob type R

Well so far at least Rod but I have not introduced my big wooden spoon yet having come from years of circuit racing Cosworths I guess I can relate to the scoob/cossie banter from both sides

I can say however that my palms were just as sweaty and shaky after that 210mph run as they were after any championship race at knockhill in the cossie.

The prep that goes into the car for 1/4m or top speed is also just as critical.

Andy

luke89

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Snowy_Astra, yeah theres a vid on scooby net
amazing top speed

Andy.F Scoob type R

The evidence















http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mantasp...andys-pass.htm

warleydaddy

As Lee said,con-grat-u-fuckin-lations Andy...

AWESOME acheivment!!!!!

A new bench mark has been set..Any new toys out there??

Rods new spec??
Martoon??
Ronnie/Cowie??

Pete...

AD-RS1600i

Awesome mate very well done

PS - Great idea with the bonnet air scoop! I thought the original would slow it down by a mile!!


Looking at you scoob, which looks cool btw, it shows Cosworths could get a little more out on the quarter mile, as I've never seens a 4wd Cossie running drag radials before.........

Anonymous

Sorry Dee
No offence just Banter

Kev.H

spec power info please amazing how the car specs records are moving quickly so fast now

Dee

It's ok Rod, most make the assumption that I'm a fella, fook knows why

Look at it this way, at least you have something to aim for now