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Old 19-12-2004, 08:30 PM   #1
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[QLD] : Drag Racing @ Willowbank

Well, you know I keep on bring this up, but I wanna go again!

I know boostedbatman, mazdabator and chicaboo have all voiced interest...so you 3 and others, when do we want to go?

I'm thinking in early February. By that time I'll have my new clutch and flywheel, chicaboo will have his full exhaust and hopefully boostedbatman will have his car sorted!

so, these are the possible dates :

Saturday the 12th or 26th. the 19th is a street meet and costs more and you'll get less runs as it's a competition, and the 5th is a track championship round.

so what's it to be? 12th or 26th? either i'm happy with either.

remember, cost is $34 to race and that admits another person (catwoman, snert in the support car). gates open at 4pm and racing starts from 430pm. last time i was there i got through 10 runs and i could have done atleast another 5-10 if i didnt have to cool down my clutch after each run. All you need to race is full body cover (long pants and long sleaved shirts) and a helmet. i have a helmet if anyone would like to share. but either way, it's not expensive. i bought my helmet for $59 i think from midtown kawasaki at bowen hills. passes all the regulations and that's all you need.

so....let get talking!

oh and if you think drag racing is boring, you're dead wrong! the smile you get from a .401 reaction time is great and beating your best time is even better! oh and if you're worried about hurting your car - it's no more damaging to your car than street racing...
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Old 19-12-2004, 10:14 PM   #2
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Yep.. i'm in... i wanna see wot the 66.8awhp beast does :P I'm out there on the 6th and 13th of feb anyway so either day is cool... just gimme notice!

I reckon mid to high 16's :wink:
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Old 19-12-2004, 10:50 PM   #3
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Yo guys,

I reckon the 12th Feb is safest incase I am doing the move in late Feb?
Hey greg how much have you lightened the Charade? 16s sounds pretty good to me.
If I have the underdrive pulley in by then (which I hope to!) I should be getting near 85kW atw, but my last dyno run was very dissappointing so maybe that's pie in the sky...?
Damn, I think I'm gonna have to give my car a diet before the drag day!

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Old 19-12-2004, 10:58 PM   #4
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well 12th sounds good to me!

gav - easy car diet : fog lights (and place your air intake thingie to come out of the fog light area), rear seats, spare wheel and tools (kept in kurt's car....thanks kurt ), and no water in the windscreen washer container. more than that and things start to get a bit more complicated, but very do-able in 1 day. i will be taking te above out of the car before the run, otherwise the rest will remain. and best of all, those things removed keep you safe for sport compact fwd drag class...

and i intend to do 15psi on the front tyres and 50psi on the rears as i did last time. seamed to work...
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Old 19-12-2004, 11:07 PM   #5
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Do you think my auto will want 15psi on the front?, it don't squeal so much. ops: I think mine biases torque to the left, so maybe I can run another 2psi on the right side tyre?
I think we will have to do some testing on the private road before we go make an official run at the strip, what do you think?
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Old 20-12-2004, 12:13 AM   #6
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I would like to come, but i'll see as we get closer, having engine problems at the moment, might just get them repair enough so i can still drive around, but just going to start saving really hard for that engine conversion, but doubt that i'll make that deadline.
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Old 20-12-2004, 07:15 AM   #7
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gav, still go 15psi at the front. it's partly for more grip, but also you'll get a little bit of a sling-shot effect when you take off, which gives you that bit better 60ft time and therefore 1/4 mile time.

pretty well all guys in america who dont run low psi on the front tyres cant get lower than a 2.2 second 60ft - even the mazdaspeed guys - and i've done a 2.142! and because we're only talking less than 0.1 of a second, testing probably wont help. but on the day you can start at whatever psi and go down???

hopefully you'll get it sorted by the 12th of feb then tublade!
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Old 21-12-2004, 12:12 AM   #8
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Hey greg how much have you lightened the Charade? 16s sounds pretty good to me.
not that much.. it doesn't have any carpet or spare tyres anyway.. so the only thing i'll do for the drags is remove the back seat... its got a few other things going for it... it had 66.8awhp before i put the cam in, so i don't know what its doing now... its also got a better gear box (both rally and drag wise) than standard, plus i run smaller tyres which effetively shorten the ratio's, plus it'll be running Yoko A032R on the front, so add in hopes and dreams and she should be running 10's flat :P

na, that and the fact that is only weighs 800kg standard :wink:

To be honest i have no idea what'll it run... but if i had to put money on it, yeah, it'd be in the mid 16 to low 17 bracket... as far as near standard 1.3's go, its not a slow car :P
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Old 21-12-2004, 04:17 AM   #9
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The 12th Feb sounds great and it could be a great send off for the batmobile :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: She gets a wonderful holiday for the next 4-6 months while we build something interesting and only time will tell how this little girl is gonna play afterwards. Let us just say that the financial input will be close to a $15'000 development program.We are going for a new and improved Batmobile so lets get all the Brisbanites together and send my girl off in stylewith lots of rubber in the air and PB's on the cards
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Old 21-12-2004, 07:28 AM   #10
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^ yep, that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Old 22-12-2004, 09:32 PM   #11
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yeah im in....im fitting a new microtech and upgrading the clutch so will be keen to see if i break into 13's
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Old 23-12-2004, 07:13 AM   #12
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Old 26-12-2004, 07:57 PM   #13
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also , when you all decide a date would u mind if some dudes from fordlaser.com came aswell , having bpt motors etc aswell it would give some more competition and be good to see how others setups perform
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Old 26-12-2004, 08:49 PM   #14
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yeah sure! just as long as there are some NA guys so us guys dont look hopeless

i'm really looking forward to this. will have my new flywheel and clutch installed by then, so will be interesting to see how my launches go compared to the stock fly and clutch (that was slipping big time)
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Old 26-12-2004, 08:59 PM   #15
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Yeah and bring some autos too so I don't look particulary hopeless!
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Old 26-12-2004, 09:41 PM   #17
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ill bring mums fully sik commy ... omg bro ... its got a fully sik black bumper
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Old 26-12-2004, 09:47 PM   #18
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is nate going to be treating us with his presence at willowbank???
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Old 02-01-2005, 06:09 AM   #20
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You would hope so its the only time he gets to drive how he wants too legally. So Nate hows about you use it and abuse it
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