New season for Daddy Cool
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New season for Daddy Cool
What a weekend PB's for fun, never hurt a thing and the car was flying. Finished with a best pass of 8.84 @ 149.43. A tenth quicker and 5 mph faster then ever. 7 passes, 5 in the eights, 4 in the 8.80's and 9 flat and a 9.03. Happy? Bet your boots we are happy!
Alan
Alan
Re: New season for Daddy Cool
God Damn that was a good weekend Big Daddy!!bigaldart wrote:What a weekend PB's for fun, never hurt a thing and the car was flying. Finished with a best pass of 8.84 @ 149.43. A tenth quicker and 5 mph faster then ever. 7 passes, 5 in the eights, 4 in the 8.80's and 9 flat and a 9.03. Happy? Bet your boots we are happy!
Alan
Well done mate.. BIG respect
You are quoting numbers that I want in 2017
Regards
Pel
Perry Stephenson
MGB GT + Rover V8
9.62 @ 137.37mph
Now looking for 8 seconds with a SBC engine
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That looks cool and certainly great times
What sort of transmission do you run in that? A transaxle or a box and separate diff?
Ian
What sort of transmission do you run in that? A transaxle or a box and separate diff?
Ian
Owner of an "On the Road" GT40 Replica by DAX powered by 3.9Hotwre Efi, worked over by DJ Motors. EFi Working but still does some kangaroo at low revs (Damn the speed limits) In to paint shop 18/03/08.
The story continues
So we are back at Shakey for the second round, quite hot and very humid conditions. 70% or 65% for the whole weekend, we ran Saturday twice, exciting moment when in the lanes and a Beetle got vertical and demolished the Christmas tree, this following an oil down meant a long time in the lanes and a very cold engine to start with, 9.12 @ 145+ and we are pretty happy given the circumstances. Back in the pits and gave it some more idle fuel to slow the tickover and took two degrees of timing out, another loooong trip down the lanes and we got a 9.18 @ 145. We gat a third pass and having bumped the timing to 36 degrees we make a 9.08 @ 146. Sunday is another day of qualifying and we ran a 9.04 at 145 and everything several fire ups later we determined the limiter was certainly playing up and elected not to use it race day. Next morning dawns bright, humidity seems to be down a bit so we get in line for the first run of raceday, everything goes well and we run a 9.04 @145, everything seems happy so we get back to the pit, fuel up and sit back until round 2. Oh Boy, now it gets interesting, no changes to the car, do a great burn out but the start line marshall spots a drip of oil on the belly pan rail and shuts us down. Push back to the wall, check all the bolts on the oil pump clean things up and try again. Great burnout again but on return there is more oil in the same place. Back to the pit and investigate. Decide we need to change the oil anyway and start to drop the belly pan to do this and give us more room to inspect the oil pump. Drop the pan and 5 flexplate bolts are lying in the pan! No rev limiter and no connection to the transmission is a pretty good recipe for a grenade, one very big bullet dodged and ready to fight another day at Dragstalgia.
It makes me shudder just to think what could have happend in about 4 seconds matebigaldart wrote:Never been so happy to be shut down on the line Pel, thats a big for sure
Alan
I'll be there at Dragstalgia as pit bitch so hope to catch up again mate.
Pel
Perry Stephenson
MGB GT + Rover V8
9.62 @ 137.37mph
Now looking for 8 seconds with a SBC engine