spuddy
Ulster Area Rep.
As the title says, me and the brother headed over to the Pod late Friday night got the ferry and drove down to the track all night, arrived at 7am, slept for 20 mins and then went to the gates to get in, too excited to sleep!
We had arranged to meet up with Gaz on the day for moral support and if the worst was to happen he had kindly offered a place for the car to stay until it was recovered, which I'm very grateful for so thanks lad!
Anyway, got the fuel in her, tyres on her, suspension set, tyre pressures set and then we where ready to take on the world!!!
Got her into the wetbox and did a big burnout, lined up on the line, nice revs lights go green and bam off we go, or not as it would appear lol. Broken drive shaft first run! ET - not set Speed 54mph
Brought her back to the pits and swapped out the shaft. Back onto the start line, this time in order to get a time I sat at idle and drove off calm as ya like, second gear half throttle nice, the 3rd and 4th I let her at it. ET 14secs speed 122mph
Another run much like the last only I give it some in second gear about a bar of boost, going into third a huge jeerk out of the car, lost all power then bang it came back to life, like a missfire but different, like someone turned off the engine, continued on anyway ET 13.5 speed 123mph
Another run kind of like the last 2 but give it some stick of the line but alot of clutch slip to protect the drive components, this time at the end of third gear the engine cut out, pulled 4th gear and planted it and nothing so freewheeled on up the strip ET 13.2 speed 90mph
Turns out the map sensor wires where caught on part of the throttle body mechanisim and it nipped through the wired shorting out the sensor and destroying it. So after some bodging and ECU settings changed we ran off the internal sensor but this limited the car to 1.5bar max but we thought lets go for it anyway.
Final run I decided a normal launch caused wheel hop so I'd go mega aggresive and hope to spin through it, absolutly massive burnout, up to the line 7500-8000rpm launch and the tyres go bounce bounce bounce and bang outter CV joint shredded ET none Speed 50mph
Replaced the CV and drove her home again, if I'd took her on the traler I would have give it one final go but was running low on spares.
All in all I broke one Shaft, one inner CV one outter CV and a map sensor. It was a great weekend and a great experience but I'll not let the track beat me, few upgrades and suspension tweeks to eliminate the wheel hop and I'll be back in March/April to give it another blast.
If the trip taught me one thing it's that I need a VW Golf! My car from my door and back again £120 fuel, the brothers Golf from his door and back again £35!!!!
We had arranged to meet up with Gaz on the day for moral support and if the worst was to happen he had kindly offered a place for the car to stay until it was recovered, which I'm very grateful for so thanks lad!
Anyway, got the fuel in her, tyres on her, suspension set, tyre pressures set and then we where ready to take on the world!!!
Got her into the wetbox and did a big burnout, lined up on the line, nice revs lights go green and bam off we go, or not as it would appear lol. Broken drive shaft first run! ET - not set Speed 54mph
Brought her back to the pits and swapped out the shaft. Back onto the start line, this time in order to get a time I sat at idle and drove off calm as ya like, second gear half throttle nice, the 3rd and 4th I let her at it. ET 14secs speed 122mph
Another run much like the last only I give it some in second gear about a bar of boost, going into third a huge jeerk out of the car, lost all power then bang it came back to life, like a missfire but different, like someone turned off the engine, continued on anyway ET 13.5 speed 123mph
Another run kind of like the last 2 but give it some stick of the line but alot of clutch slip to protect the drive components, this time at the end of third gear the engine cut out, pulled 4th gear and planted it and nothing so freewheeled on up the strip ET 13.2 speed 90mph
Turns out the map sensor wires where caught on part of the throttle body mechanisim and it nipped through the wired shorting out the sensor and destroying it. So after some bodging and ECU settings changed we ran off the internal sensor but this limited the car to 1.5bar max but we thought lets go for it anyway.
Final run I decided a normal launch caused wheel hop so I'd go mega aggresive and hope to spin through it, absolutly massive burnout, up to the line 7500-8000rpm launch and the tyres go bounce bounce bounce and bang outter CV joint shredded ET none Speed 50mph
Replaced the CV and drove her home again, if I'd took her on the traler I would have give it one final go but was running low on spares.
All in all I broke one Shaft, one inner CV one outter CV and a map sensor. It was a great weekend and a great experience but I'll not let the track beat me, few upgrades and suspension tweeks to eliminate the wheel hop and I'll be back in March/April to give it another blast.
If the trip taught me one thing it's that I need a VW Golf! My car from my door and back again £120 fuel, the brothers Golf from his door and back again £35!!!!
