NEW PB for Bones SD1 !!!!
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:20 pm
Richard (Bones) tinterweb has packed up so he cant get on here at the moment!
I couldnt make it to North Weald today because I was frantically trying to get my V8 back together. But I kept in touch with Bones by phone.
Now.... Some of you will remember the problems Bones has been having with the SD1 build.
Some of you will remember the SD1 going up in smoke at the Dyno day last year with wiring probs on the starter.
We all know what problems Bones has been having getting the V8 ready due to timing, cam and ignition issues etc.
I know how much bones has been looking forward to getting ready for testing at the Weald Today. And I was gutted for him when he rang me yesterday to tell me the bloody carbon bush in his Mallory dissy cap had broken.
But in true DIY V8 style he took a selection of dissy's and caps and made himself a working dissy with bits of string and gaffa tape.
Then this morning the nitrous system went tits up so he could not do what he was hoping to do. And run the SD1 with its gas. Poor old Bones was feeling a bit pee'd off by now as you can imagine. So he did some NASP runs anyway. But he got to spannering in the pits and eventually managed to get a 50 shot of gas on tap. He was keeping everything crossed that the gaffa tape dissy held up ok.
So!
He's in the queue to race!
All he can think about is "will the dissy hold together"?? "will the nitrous actually activate when I hit the pedal"?? Tension is building!!. Bones is sweating buckets!! He's asking TopCat if he has any Ulcer pills on him??
Then, just as he was one car from the front of the queue and all adrenalined up!! Some twat called Perry rang him to find out how he was doing..
""You can guess by now that I'm hanging this out for the big finale can't you""
Where was I?... Oh yes...
So seconds from having to put his helmet on, some tit rings him for a chat!
The conversation went like this. "Hi rich, its Pel, how you doing". Rich say's "I've had a bloody night mare mate...Oh bugger me, its my turn, talk later", click, brrrr. Phone went dead.
And I bet he was glad to have hung up right then.
Because that old Tank of an SD1 with its home brewed 3.9 and a 50 shot of gas did him well proud and went on to pull a 14.33 @ 102mph
WELL DONE RICHARD!!
I BET YOUR HAVING A BEER RIGHT NOW MATE...
You have worked so hard to try and pull this thing together havent you.
PS
Richard Beat an AMG merc on the day too.....Result!!
I couldnt make it to North Weald today because I was frantically trying to get my V8 back together. But I kept in touch with Bones by phone.
Now.... Some of you will remember the problems Bones has been having with the SD1 build.
Some of you will remember the SD1 going up in smoke at the Dyno day last year with wiring probs on the starter.
We all know what problems Bones has been having getting the V8 ready due to timing, cam and ignition issues etc.
I know how much bones has been looking forward to getting ready for testing at the Weald Today. And I was gutted for him when he rang me yesterday to tell me the bloody carbon bush in his Mallory dissy cap had broken.
But in true DIY V8 style he took a selection of dissy's and caps and made himself a working dissy with bits of string and gaffa tape.
Then this morning the nitrous system went tits up so he could not do what he was hoping to do. And run the SD1 with its gas. Poor old Bones was feeling a bit pee'd off by now as you can imagine. So he did some NASP runs anyway. But he got to spannering in the pits and eventually managed to get a 50 shot of gas on tap. He was keeping everything crossed that the gaffa tape dissy held up ok.
So!
He's in the queue to race!
All he can think about is "will the dissy hold together"?? "will the nitrous actually activate when I hit the pedal"?? Tension is building!!. Bones is sweating buckets!! He's asking TopCat if he has any Ulcer pills on him??
Then, just as he was one car from the front of the queue and all adrenalined up!! Some twat called Perry rang him to find out how he was doing..
""You can guess by now that I'm hanging this out for the big finale can't you""
Where was I?... Oh yes...
So seconds from having to put his helmet on, some tit rings him for a chat!
The conversation went like this. "Hi rich, its Pel, how you doing". Rich say's "I've had a bloody night mare mate...Oh bugger me, its my turn, talk later", click, brrrr. Phone went dead.
And I bet he was glad to have hung up right then.
Because that old Tank of an SD1 with its home brewed 3.9 and a 50 shot of gas did him well proud and went on to pull a 14.33 @ 102mph
WELL DONE RICHARD!!
I BET YOUR HAVING A BEER RIGHT NOW MATE...
You have worked so hard to try and pull this thing together havent you.
PS
Richard Beat an AMG merc on the day too.....Result!!