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General => Shows, events, track days, motorsport => Topic started by: Chrisb on 22 June 2004, 12:54
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does anyone of the board do much drag racing? never really seen any golf's at event's thoguht abotu running mine, what sort of time should i expect?
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GTI Festival at Santa Pod on the 11th July is exactly what you need! :)
The best Golf's will probably do high 11 seconds. Highly modified cars though, don't expect anything near from a 'normal' GTI ;D
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hmm might have a look down to that, i run my other car at local dragstrips, but have fancied seeing what the golf can do, its standard aswell but so much fun drag racing :)
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get yas self along to santa pod ont he 11th then matey!!! there will be a fair queue of vw's waiting to go up the strip!! and for ?10/15 for unlimited runs with timed printouts its a bargin!! ;D
Gaz 8)
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What if there's a madman racing ya? He might come and ram you at 70mph, and you wont be insured!
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santa pod usually only do 3 runs for your 15 so could be well worth it :)
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Someone say 1/4 mile?
I hadn't done it until inters this year and was very nervious about it, I did it and it felt great then there was no stopping me, can't wait till teh GTI Festival for some more runs ;D
Hmmm I think I have an addiction!!
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hey mate
done this mysef for the 1st time ever this year at the bug jam
<---- small piccy there, lol
got a standard gti, best time i did it in was
17.186 seconds @ 79.36 mph
done 5 runs in total for a ?10
and loved every mintue of it,
won 4 out of 5 races
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def recomemed, even if you cars not supercharged! its all good fun!
cheers
Ben
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I was at Crail airfield, near St Andrews in Scotland at the weekend, managed 10 times down the strip averaging 16.85 secs ;D
Heres some piccies of the cars
Crail cars (http://www.weirdonline.co.uk/www/Pics/Cars/Crail%2008,08,04/Cars/craillcars080804.html)
and heres some of the lovely ladies
Crail chicks (http://www.weirdonline.co.uk/www/Pics/Cars/Crail%2008,08,04/Burds/crailburds080804.html)
Here's a vid clip of me on the strip (6 megs avi) ;D
a sunday drive with Boris (http://www.weirdonline.co.uk/www/Pics/Cars/crail%20qtr%20mile.AVI)
apologies for the lack of sound and the quality, it was recorded on a camera.
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Here's more details on my run's
qtr mile times (http://www.crailraceway.co.uk/select_run.asp?CarNumber=80&RunDate=20040808)
Please bear in mind that a lot of the cars I was up against were race prepped, whereas the only mods I have are a Miltek exhaust and a K&N filtercharger.
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Did my 1st 1/4 last August at York Dragway (Gti hot-hatch day). Really nervous for the 1st run, but did 16.22 in pretty standard 16v so was well chuffed. What a gr8 buzz.
2nd run was timed at about 3 1/2 minutes :o and I didn't race again that day!! (or drive home :'()
Absoultely gr8 fun, should be doing it again this weekend in the new supercharged beast. Hopefully should improve on the time... ;D
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i managed 16.002 as my fastest run at gti fest at santa pod in july, was ace fun and totally enjoyed it!!, my fastest time (above) felt like i was wheelspinnin the whole way also, the more runs i did the slippier it felt, but i chuffed with what times but with more traction i reckon i could have got mid to late 15's!!
Gaz 8)
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Had my mk1 turbo out at Edzel in Scotland for some runs, managed a 13.96 ;D. In the proses of changing the fuel system to programmable efi, so am hopeful there is more to come.
Steve.
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^ damn quick steve ;D and i was happy with 14.9!
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Had my mk1 turbo out at Edzel in Scotland for some runs, managed a 13.96? ;D. In the proses of changing the fuel system to programmable efi, so am hopeful there is more to come.
Steve.
Superb times m8 8), and that was on a crappy rainy day as well ;D.
(http://www.weirdonline.co.uk/www/Pics/Cars/Edzell%2029.08.04/FFflame_mini.jpg) (http://www.weirdonline.co.uk/www/Pics/Cars/car_pics.htm)
click the pic for some shots I took at edzell
right click here (http://www.weirdonline.co.uk/www/Pics/Cars/Edzell%2029.08.04/Pyromaniac.AVI) and save target as to see a vid clip of Pyromaniac in action.
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a mate of mine had a go at this at the rwyb at santa pod at the 2003 kruisin live show, he had a cossie at the time and managed just under 11 secs, he had a race with a mk 1 escort that just blitzed anythin off the line but topped out really quick so it was losing to most things, think it was more to show the power it had
great fun tho, would love to get mine down there , but i must admit this bein my first turbo charged car it takes a bit of gettin used to
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anyone fancy goin pod on the 23rd this month, hopefully a few dubs from no-rice will be attending aswell, would be fun, come on ?15 entry and unlimited runs
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I had a go at inters last year.
0-60 9.95 and 1/4 mile 17.50.
I was quite pleased as the only engine modds are weber and a K&N :smiley:
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That's not a bad time that bronze. I haven't done the 1/4 mile in mine but I was estimating about 18 secs. Take it to GTi festival this year and have a go at santa pod, the actual timing is more accurate apparently :smiley: We could have a race :wink: :smiley:
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That's not a bad time that bronze. I haven't done the 1/4 mile in mine but I was estimating about 18 secs. Take it to GTi festival this year and have a go at santa pod, the actual timing is more accurate apparently? :smiley: We could have a race? :wink: :smiley:
Game on :evil: :laugh:
Sounds good to me mate :wink:
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16.1 is my best, i plan on making it into 15's with better launches this year :laugh:
oh , its a 1.8 16v sportline with LSD :evil:
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I love 1/4 miles!
Not tried the Golf yet but I'll hopefully make some drag event in it this year and give it a go.
Best time I've done in the mini is around the 15sec mark. The problem is it has a short diff and 90mph is redline in top.
Nick
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went to york today , minis v beetles , beetles won . some very quick cars :evil:
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anyone going the the gti spring festival next month, i'm chasing a 14 or maybe a 13 as im gonna use my slicks this time :laugh:
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Yes look in the show section, you will find a nice long list of us going
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went to york today , minis v beetles , beetles won . some very quick cars :evil:
Yeah I heard, oh well the beetle boys can have it on loan for a year. We'll get it back in 2006!
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lol i read that as the beastie boys lol, still vw related!
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Hey,anybody done the 1/4 in a standard pd150????....Also gonna give it a go at the inters,whats the best launch procedure.hold the revs or gradual build up????..
Was thinking of leaving my boards on for the laugh!! :laugh: