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#1

Anyone see this tonight? What a load of shit the race was.
How did it only manage a 17+ second quarter with a 270bhp V8 and another
150bhp of nitrous.
What I think happened is, unchecked V8 from old wreck was knackered, with
the drag racing engine expert there they didn't even bother to take the
heads off and check it. As for the nitrous, did anyone even see anything
being connected to the engine, never mind setting it up with the correct
jets. I don't think it was even connected to the engine.
With the above taken into account it stood absolutely no chance in beating
the custom built dragster which mysteriously threw a conrod between getting
there and getting to the start line. You would have thought they would have
shown the damage but all we saw was dirty oil dripping onto an old rag,
would a custom built drag V8 be full of dirty oil?
The replacement opponent vehicle was a VW Camper van with tuned 1800 engine,
meant to be quicker than a Golf GTI but still only managed a 18+ second
quarter, not quite in the same league as the original opponent. If they
wanted a challenge why didn't they just race against Dialynx's short Quattro
Turbo which was in the background when they were at the track, of course
like the other dragster it wouldn't have been much of a race.
It would have been better just to give them a chance to get everything
sorted right and it may have been a better race, as it was it only just made
it to the finish line before a water hose burst.

#2

Homer wrote:

Quote:

Anyone see this tonight? What a load of shit the race was.
How did it only manage a 17+ second quarter with a 270bhp V8 and
another 150bhp of nitrous.
What I think happened is, unchecked V8 from old wreck was knackered,
with the drag racing engine expert there they didn't even bother to
take the heads off and check it. As for the nitrous, did anyone even
see anything being connected to the engine, never mind setting it up
with the correct jets. I don't think it was even connected to the
engine.
With the above taken into account it stood absolutely no chance in
beating the custom built dragster which mysteriously threw a conrod
between getting there and getting to the start line. You would have
thought they would have shown the damage but all we saw was dirty oil
dripping onto an old rag, would a custom built drag V8 be full of
dirty oil?
The replacement opponent vehicle was a VW Camper van with tuned 1800
engine, meant to be quicker than a Golf GTI but still only managed a
18+ second quarter, not quite in the same league as the original
opponent. If they wanted a challenge why didn't they just race
against Dialynx's short Quattro Turbo which was in the background
when they were at the track, of course like the other dragster it
wouldn't have been much of a race.
It would have been better just to give them a chance to get everything
sorted right and it may have been a better race, as it was it only
just made it to the finish line before a water hose burst.

They hadn't rigged up a radiator at all as far as I know, so the hoses were
just going round in a loop. Seemed to me they had a budget of approx 2 bob.
I know nowt about drag racing, but a milk float that couldn't have weighed
much more than half a tonne with 400 horses should have flown, not just
beaten a 200brake or so type 2 camper...

#3

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Anyone see this tonight?

I keep hearing about it, and then plan to watch it and keep missing it.

Damn.
--
Carl Robson
(The poster formerly known as Skodapilot)
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#4

¤¤¤ Abo ¤¤¤ wrote:

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Doki raved thus:

budget of approx 2 bob. I know nowt about drag racing, but a milk
float that couldn't have weighed much more than half a tonne with
400 horses should have flown

I couldn't help wondering about that Lexan screen. I mean, if you were
driving it and wearing a full face helmet, would you have even
bothered fitting a verticle screen? Surely leaving it open would have
helped the aero.

Ah, there is the answer to the OP; it ran so slowly because the
windscreen ruined the aero

I wonder what it was actually making and actually weighed? The calculators
I've found reckon it should have been doing around 11 seconds with 400
horses if it weighed a tonne.

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