santa pod

anyone going, or up for going to santa pod 16th march?

run what you brung saturday 16th , fast show sunday 17th.

be me im my 20vt and i'm going up there with 2 astra coupe turbos from the west london neck of the woods!

be nice to see few coupes up there

No mention of coupes going. You may get there and see some that dont frequent the Forum,

Whats your Coupes spec?

A standard ish 20vt should waste your buddies if they're only stage 1.

Have fun!

Chrissy,

Quite a few fiat Punto Gt's a will be up there and also a few 12second ones as well

standard turbo, flea remap before i baught the car,, pannel air filter , and i have just fitted a large front mount fitted with cable ties for the moment !! (just for testing purposes)

not sure weather to leave the large intercooler on or standard .......

one astra is stage 2 the other is 3.5 or 4 (310) bhp

should be good fun as long as i dont blow the coupe up!

If I can get out of DIY for the weekend I'll be there on Sunday.

I may be up for this one, workload allowing

Come on Barbz, the quarter mile record gotta be there for the taking with the shape your cars in at the mo??
Flea & Maverick will be shittin it..... As will your gearbox!!

Nick

Been itching all over to get down there but up to me eyeballs with work.

I try my best.

You going?

Never done quarter mile, but definitely wanna have ago!! The horror stories put me off a little though, i.e Nigel's car left parts of his gearbox on the line iirc last time he did one?!
Cars not back on the road till April 1st though..... No jokes!!
How often are these open days at pod on??
Shakespeare race way is prob a better bet for me I think!?

Nick

First of all, you have to turn up. Marco the 2nd

Santa Pod are currently resurfacing the entire track - from the piccie I saw yesterday, I rather doubt it will be ready for the weekend and even if it is, it will be completely "green"

green??

Not rubbered in

Only "Green" Marco knows is the stuff he's out selling in his Pimpmobile M3!

Lol!!

weather is looking pretty s##t!

How did it go?

not the best!! managed to get one run down the strip when it decided to stop raining for 2 hours .

14.5 with seats and some luggage not too bad

only saw a few coupe's down there and mine didnt get much attention , probibly because it dont have a massive spoiler and a bumper thats been ripped of from a little bump!

going to go back again in the summer time (if we ever get one)

Tempted to head down to the Pod this Saturday (4th May) if this nice weather holds up.

Its been a very long time since I last went. Im hoping to beat my personal best of 15.1 seconds set in a Honda Prelude

Anyone else planning on going?

Errr.. think you'll find the majority of coupe owners are Auto Italia

Good point B!

I guess it'll be myself and the tumbleweed fighting the coupe corner!

Back from the Pod! Was a good day!.... but mainly for everyone else! My clutch let me down a bit today. It has been the Achilles heel of my setup for a while as its not quite man enough and to top it off it has started slipping quite badly when i launch the car. Today I couldn't launch the car at any revs over 2k and had to ensure the clutch had fully engaged before accelerating. Once engaged it to coped with the torque ok. As you can expect this is not ideal for drag racing. It bogged down every time.

My best time was 14.1 seconds which was not that bad I guess but I reckon I should be seeing mid to high 13's.

Watch this space for a "which clutch" thread in the tuning section!

Is anyone on here going to Santa Pod tomorrow for the japshow? (yes I know we drive italian cars) but the weather should be good