Your country maybe !!!

Andy frae Edinburgh

 

Ghost, he has probably seen yours and didnt want to be overshadowed

Rob

 

LOL you have mistaken me for Blowdog!

 

Really enjoyed the day - some of the machinery on show and performing was awesome to say the least.

and

A big thanks to the Scooby boys who kindly donated a litre of oil to a very good cause (my mates motor had blown during the top speed event). None of the other clubs seemed willing to help us but as per usual the Scoob community were willing to help - Yet another reason for me feeling proud to own a Scoob and that this community is just brilliant.

Thanks again guys

 

Andy F.

Fair point!!

Are there any better ¼ miles up north then as this just wasn’t up for the job!!!!

 

Nah, We just have Crail which is downhill

 

I didn’t really mind the distance as it only took me an hour and half or so, but it was just the venue versus cost thing that makes me go for pod!!!

 

Ghost, i thought that you was Cem's alter ego

Rob

 

Class A front Wheel Drive
Name Sunny Khalsa Fiesta Zetec Turbo Speed 169.7mph

Now that's the spirit! :

 

Great day, and worth the trip and travel lodge business, but too hot if you ask me which probably slowed some of the turbo'd cars down, I don't know about you lot who entered but I wouldn't of been happy running my car in that heat.

Yeah the improvements required are: seating (mine feet felt er so flat!), handling times to be shown as they lap the track, and a better score board for the 1/4 mile too thats up to date, not to mention a top speed board for when they hit them, and an overall leaders board.

I was suporting the Pulsars but our final entries due to were reduced due to problems, and included cars that weren't really fully ready. We didn't do that well overall, best was a 11.9 run by Bruce Morris, which was fantastic but I personally think it will do better soon. As I said, the heat must of got to them. Bruce Spence's 500bhp+ DP Motorsport Red Pulsar had problems with his new clutch so it just slipped and bounced of the limiter in all gears so only a 12.3 I think, no doubt he'll be back soon. I didn't even see a Pulsar do the handling course?

 

dont believe everything you read

I would have loved to have seen Keith R32 run with a launch similar to Rocket Ronnie's.

 

NelsonUK - glad it helped . It was Pat's oil, sorry we didn't have more. Did it do the job?

Cheers,
Nick
(wagon owner/Pat's/David's/Paul's chauffeur)

 

Definately worth it just to see david wallis run, even if it was only for a short time!! - glad you managed to make it david, the missus was expecting a shopping trip if you had'nt have run - even though i tried to explain she got 5 hours of quality time with me on fri night - so what if it was to maidenhead and back??

Roll on next year!!

 

Yes it did mate - we managed to get another litre from another group but the car was smoking real bad - you may have seen the trail of smoke behind the Rover 620TI as we pulled away (at the end)it was massive.

Car was later loaded on a wagon and we got home about 1am having left the airfield at just gone 6 :O

Anyway thanks again

 

Yeah was a good day out. Hopefully will be better next year. SOme nice scoobs there. Anyone see the 2 cossies havin a play at the end. The moonstone saff and the mallard green escort. I was in that escort and it is quick especially with anti lag on

 

My big end went on my first timed lap, so not brilliant really. I would have made the final shootout, i dont have any doubts there, but alas my engine didnt want to keep to the plan.

Thanks to Steven i had 3 laps behind the wheel of his UK wagon and put in some respectable times, from memory about 1.5S behind AndyF and knocking 1 second off each lap, but we ran out of time to get the most out of the car, there was a lot more speed to come from the car, it's a great car with a superb engine.

 

Jees John.

Sorry to hear that mate?
What dya think caused the big end to go? Extreme temps on sun?
I know you address all the major areas of concern religiously?

 

no idea as of yet.

I wont be able to strip the engine for a week.

It's going to be either bad det or oil surge IMHO, but i need to find the reason rather than speculate.

Unfortunately the wire to my knocklink sensor broke, so i didnt get any indication of det, even if there were some. When its stripped down and analysed i'll let people know what i find.

 

Sorry to here that John . Will Peter be looking at it... if so im sure he'll find the cause quickly. Hopefully it won't be det, was the water injection working?

Tony.

 

Hi John,

Hope you got back Ok and really sorry about the engine

See you soon,

Mossman

 

Sorry to hear about your car John
Lets hope you get her sorted and back on the road soon though

Tony

 

That is bad news about your engine John, its a real bummer after all that hard work. Hope you get it sorted soon.

Les

 

Thanks for the sympathy, much apreciated. I have been away from home since TOTBII in Finland, so havnt looked into the cause of the failure yet, hopefully i'll get to start stripping the engine later this week.

I would like to get the oil and fuel analysed, if anyone has a contact who can do this for me please drop me a mail, it would be apreciated.

cheers
john

 

There is a name that springs to mind, but we wont go there!

Atol Racing Fuels may be able to do it, I know know of them as they do control fuel for the karting championships.

You might want to ask your friendly MSA scrutineer if they know of anyone.

Paul

 

LOL

OK, thanks.