The Apexi is handy as you can lower the start duty in any gear - effectivly capping your boost

Flea's comment is interesting about using road tyres instead of semi slicks - As the semi slicks seem to feel much grippier than road tyres...

Maybe I wasn't heating mine up enough on the day but Sitting doiing burnouts on expensive tyres does make me feel guilty !!

Although I can't drive so that explains my times...

there;s a lot of difference between different semi slicks. Stuff like Yoko A032R soft compound and Toyo R888 heat up more easily than the likes of Pirelli Pzero C/Corsa and Dunlop D01J/DZ02G.

They where Dunlop's DZ02G - These are more suited to corners I read somewhere - that's why I chose them

Dunlops have stiff sidewalls so good for the track. The 888s are slightly softer and when I borrowed Barbz's set they did make a slight difference in the region of 1/10th

Weather isn't going to be on my side in Sunday.

Which is probably just as well as it will show clearly that my times a short while ago were all flukes.

U still going matty?

*fingers crossed* my coupe was repaired last night.

Ross

I don't think so, the track is never going to be dry.

Glad to hear you've fixed your car!

Track tyres arent the way to go. I bought a pair of Mickey Thompson ET Drag slicks an they work pretty good. And they actually don't need very much "warming up" you just need to do a reasonable burnout get them to smoke a bit and they're good to go. Fairly easy to get sub 2s 60ft times with these. I did constant 1.9s times at a drag event no problem. Clutch dump at 6000rpm you get a very slight spin and off the line it goes. Was quite fun getting off the line just as fast as the evo and scooby guys

Bad thing with these is that they don't work very good on standard road tarmac, might as well use street tyres on tarmac. But on concrete strips and "real" drag strips they're perfect.

13.260 sec 1/4 mile
0.674 sec Reaction
2.354 sec 60ft
114.5 mph mph Terminal

Full interior, normal Toyo road tyres and half tank of fuel.

Getting there, poor 60ft though.

Well done!!

When was that? last week?

Ross

I would guess that Matthew was probably practicing on the looooooong driveway outside of his house.

Matty :

http://www.crailraceway.co.uk/show_times.asp?CarNumber=21&RunDate=20071125&RaceID=434

Fergie :

http://www.crailraceway.co.uk/show_times.asp?CarNumber=20&RunDate=20070819&RaceID=664

Ross

60ft time is still better than mine m8 Track was just a tad damp when I was last running...

Take it it was a nice cold dry day?

They say each 10th at 6ft is worth about 2 tenths at the line.

Have a look here to see the difference 60ft time makes

Yeah it was a lovely cold day, but traction was still an issue. It was a total spur of the moment decision to go down, hence running on my road tyres. Heck, I even left my sub in which must add loads of weight.

Maybe next year the time will come down, who knows.

It was worth it to see and hear the Ultima as well.

Aww! (Sex Wee)

Last time I saw the Ultima was when it decided to take an unplanned short cut through the fields half way down the strip.

Seeing that was worth the entrance fee alone

Yup, watching the arse end of it twitch along the strip was quite amusing.

Sounded amazing though, especially on start up.