.. and I'll follow with a dustpan and brush to pick up the gearbox/diff/clutch parts. Good luck - just hope the car is a toy and not your daily driver.

Boringly negative, but Coupes are stylish quick cheap Grand Tourers, not drag artists

It would appear they dont wish to carry out the £500 bet anymore
Its okay though because they will get something to shut them up soon.
Certain people on here will know what im talking about

Just enjoy the coupe as it is, It ends in tears pretty much everytime a coupe is tuned alot over 300bhp, There are exceptions naturally,

You seem to be on a crusade to get a million bhp and better your mates cars,

Generally the Coupes are not supposed to be driven by people that sit in pubs talking and betting on races,

They are a touring coupe - with power!

Never that.
the thought of going forged isnt even a option i dont plan on getting to that sort of power!
I will be happy with 350 and as for betting it was bought up of there own back!

What happened then, did you get down there today?

They backed out on the £500 pound bet so i diddnt see the need.
I think there conversation with two m3 owners from the group shut them up.
Whats the rules with uploading videos ?

Depends on what is happening in the video

I will upload to youtube and pm you a link later

it cant be videos or posts of road racing or speeding.

Cant upload to my channel atm anyways

Iv'e seen a 20v coupe run consistant low 11 second runs at santa pod. It was about 5-6 years ago, I don't know much about it only that the tuner was the same guy that tuned my cars at the time and the car got broken up shortly after.

There's only been 2 UK coupes that have done 11 seconds run's

Flea / FC Performance

and

Marvic / Torque Italia

Are you thinking of Markus? I don't think he ever did 11 second but was regularly doing 12 second runs.

No UK Coupes have done low 11s - Begbie's right, only Mavric and Flea have broken into the 11s, both with 11.94 and both on drag tyres

Maybe Barbz or some one up and coming may be able to crack the 11 second barrier!!

Well it was a similar greyish colour to that marvic one in the vid, It could be that I suppose. I'll have to show the video to my mate who was with me at the time.

More likely to crack the car than the barrier! IMO a pointless exercise; unless you have a Coupe to waste just build a dragster...

boring Tim

I'd agree Tim, I've done my time trying to net .'s of a second up santa pod, and it's hard to do in normal car. You just hit a wall whereby the next step is spaceframe it and/or do something crazy with a V8 and a rear axle :-)

Boring Richard.

Back on the subject, the car I saw all those years ago wasn't the grey one in begbie's vid, I saw it in the for sale section last year and I know that low 11's coupe was broken up a long time ago.

I've also finished with Santa Pod - my last run cost me a gearbox, even though I was on street tyres - too much grip + too much power = bits of diff casing all over the startline

My aim now is to continue my quest to gradually improve the dynamics to make a car that can easily be used everyday AND embarrass super cars when the mood takes me

You still got someone to manners

my ex coupe with GT28RS and flea map have arround 320bhp and 12,7sec with hankook RS2 tyres and without interior.
i don t have a video with that time but i have one with stock clutch slipping and full interior at KOE Hungary 2009 run 13,37.
i try to find the ticket with 12,7sec and the 60ft if i remember correctly it is 2,18sec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMO8k-ey3...WlPiQcC_X5KQSw=

I once did a 13.6 at Santa pod with 300bhp with standard road tyres and interior.

What was your terminal time?

My stock teg ran a 14.3 @ 102.5 @ crail

Its now running 250bhp I would expect 13.6 @105-106 now with the help of semi slicks as the the 60ft time is key for quicker runs

I think 104mph. I will try and dig out ticket

Surely with 300bhp your trap must have been min 108@ the pod?

Absolutely not - when I was running 300bhp, I did a 13.37 @ 102 - clearly the gain for that run was in the launch, not in the top speed

As Nigel said. It was all in the launch.
I had race logic traction control with "launch control", but could actually get a better time ( 13.6) with out it on.

You were almost a second quicker than my car with me doing a 14.3 @ 102.5 out of interest what was you 60ft time?