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a few pics of my car should be finished next weekend but couldnt resist putting a few up  ;D

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Looks great mate it will look nice in my mirror

you got to get it to work first mate reckon that gives me a few more chances to wipe the floor with you  ;D :P

Dont worry you will be leaving me behind for a long while well at least a few seconds  :P

Looking good, hopefully see the finished car at the track sometime this year.
Cheers
Jo
PS Now it has to go as good as it looks  :P :)

Looking good Danny - well done mate - you don't hang about  :D I'll give you that  ;)

Very nice  8)

looking good bud!!! ;)

yeah the bloke who painted it seems to know his stuff  ;D

Very Nice mate , lets see the bonnet !

ill have it rolling on wed so will get some better pics also fitting doors tomoz so itl look a bit more complete 8)

That car is looking sweet :)

Looking good Danny!! Be good to see it at the strip at the end of Jan  ;D  Well done in getting it to this state  :P

couple of pic's with the doors on!!
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Stunning!!!  ;D ;D

Looks great mate  ;D

Cheers andy

another one with the wings and wheels on going to sneak up to the lockup for a few hours tommorrow morning  :D hopefully get it outside
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Looking mighty fine!

I like this, clean and simple.

getting there :D

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Looking very cool!

Looking good Dannyboy ;)

Michael

looking good

Clean, simple but oh so nice!!!!

gr
Wout

if the weather holds im off to the pod for a few shakedown runs on sunday  ;D
lots of tidying to do yet but its getting there  :)

Looking good  8)

nice man

car ran ok apart from the rear end needing to be re set as it was bouncing all the way up the track
still ran a pb n/a of 12.2 and i did back off on that run a bit mid track due to going towards the other lane :o :D
all in all the car is great very happy with the way it looks and goes  ;D
got 6 runs in
happy days
danny :)

one of a list of dodgey runs  ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAC2J8Ir4A&list=UUgrWfWYQ21WQjdjzOH3PHLA&index=3&feature=plcp

Danny,

well done for getting it back together so quickly,looks really good,just watched that video and it looks horrible :o :D  What torsionbars & shocks have you got on there? Also you really need to launch that on a 2step I think,it will help alot,the DTA has provision for it if you didnt already have it wired up?

cheers Richie

hi richie
the car has the same setup as it had when chris ran it
gaz coilovers and stock torsion bars it was ok until i wound them up a fair bit ::) i will move them back to where thy were last year and try again
when you are over mr sanchezes manor pop in and have a look

Ok,

not a fan of 2 springs on the same corner[torsion bar and coilover] but thats just my opinion,it obviously worked for Chris and for you :)  Why did you pre load it more,what are you trying to change? thought it always 60footed well before?

Will pm you when we are next coming over that way :)

cheers Richie

i mashed up the drive shafts/fulcrum plates and spider gears by having the arse to soft
but in hindsight i must have done that damage a while back as i had wound them up a bit near the end of last season when it was working well  ::) :D
never mind its all a big learning curve for me and im having a ball with it  ;D chuffed with a pb n/a while backing off a bit though must be more left in it than i thought
 8)

another vid


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjJruiQjROE

That actually looks better,pressume you turned the bottle on then? it looks like more power keeps the back end planted more

cheers Richie

yes i had a 25 shot in it and had backed the coilovers off a bit it was still bouncing all the way but not as bad made for an interesting run  :D

With them wound up you proberly have more spring than the shocks can handle

cheers Richie

cheers for all the feedback mate i have a lot to learn  :-[

Nos isnt N/A  ;) ;D :D

there was no NOS used on the 12.2 ;D

Nor was there any NOS used on Rich moss's 12.1 in "Little Stink Hound"  ;) ;)

Bugger! you got me there  :D

Still not N/A thou  ;) ;D

peach.
i ran a 12.2 n/a with fanbelt on WITHOUT NITROUS
that is n/a
i also backed off 3/4 track  ;)
now get back in your garage and get your car going  :D

 :D ok.............Car looks ace btw ;) 8)

But did you drive it to the track and back home again :P (Ditto, car looks great Danny)

last time i saw your car it was on a trailor on its way home from the pod  :-X ;)

still drove it there :-*

went on the rolling road yesterday after smoothing the map out it only made 157-159 fwhp  and that was a lot more than it made at the begining of the session
it still ran 12.2 last time it was out funny how so few ponies can make the car roll along at a fair old pace  :D 8)

That figure seems very low for a 2276 that runs low 12's?

Lee

tell me about it  ??? got it weighed today at 690 kgs  dunno whats going on but im not complaining  :D

that's about right for RWHP, but yes, FWHP seems a bit low.

I'm sure someone on here had a calculation forum that would convert power and weight figures to et/mph?

Be interested to see if your figures match up?

Lee

Hi Danny, so yes, it is lighter but not super light - can't remember off hand kerb weight of standard bug of that year but have a feeling it's around 750 kgs ? - anyone correct me if that's way off please.


Hi Lee, yes I agree with both you and Neil and Danny and I were pondering all this the other day at the Rolling Roda. I have spoke to a few people re the validity of the figures from thoise rollers and they feel the figures are fairly accurate.

Yes if that formula could be found and used it might shed some light on this mystery as to how a car with only 150-16o bhp at flywheel weighing 690 kgs can run 12.2 naturally aspirated ??? Danny does run with Serpentine pulley and belt system in place and I have heard these rob a fair bit of power so this might up his figures by 20 bhp ? giving us up to 180 at the flywheel ??  Don't forget a lot of people quote flywheel bhp figures achieved off the dyno without cooling or transmission losses that factor in when using a rolling road as Danny did.

I for one was expecting to see between 195 - 210 bhp as a flywheel figure so was equally shocked, knowing how quick this car is.

Danny what did it make last year? it might be time for a freshen up,valve job and maybe valve springs need replacing?you runing same plugs n/a and with gas? what afr was it at on the dyno?timing?

wallace drag calc says 12.36@108mph with that weigth and hp

cheers richie

it made 168fwhp on a different dyno the springs are 2 years old cb650 i do run the same plugs all the time  as far as the timing afr info id have to ask ian at power engineering
as i dont know  :-[
he did say the dyno make approx 10-12 hp less than other dynos so it seems to be making the same power and

the other factor nobody seems to be allowing for is how good the driver is  ;D ;D ;D

Danny, in my old car I had a 2276 (10.5:1 comp, FK87 I think) that I bought off Jay Aldred. He'd run it in the first version of his buggy having had it built by John Maher. IIRC it had 48IDFs or 48DRLAs, and Wisecos to cope with a bit of nitrous when Jay had it, so I bought it without carbs/manifolds and without pistons/barrels. I put a set of Mahles on, my 48IDAs and had it rolling roaded at Raceshack. ::)
This is where the numbers get interesting. Jay had had the motor dyno'd when JMR built it, and it came out as 187.5bhp at the flywheel. Understandably I was quite disappointed with 129bhp at the wheels! >:( How can my transmission losses be nearly 60bhp?! >:( However, the purpose of the rolling road for me was to get the car running right and get the engine dialled in as best it could be, and the car ran pretty consistent low 12's (usually low 12.20's to mid 12.teens, best of 12.09) at 105-110mph, which I think is pretty close to where you were without gas?
I had a bit of a think after the first race meet of the year and remembered that the Mustang Dyno that Raceshack used needed a car weight inputting to the software to get all the numbers out. Unfortunately the softwares lowest weight setting that it would cope with was 2000lbs (907kg) and my car with me was 1639lbs (743kg), so a decent amount different. So I did a bit of working out.

First I wanted a correction factor for the weight of the car.
2000lbs/1639lbs=1.22, so that was what I had to work my RWHP figure against.
129bhp x1.22 = 157bhp corrected RWHP. That's more like it!
Then I figured in transmission losses, I'd read that 20% is about right.
157bhp x 1.2 = 188.9 corrected FWHP, close enough to what JMR had tested the motor at on his engine dyno.

Now this might just be a massive thread hijack, but in amongst those ramblings you might find a bit of info that helps you make sense of your numbers! ;D

So it should run 9s,but with you driving it runs 12s,is that what you are saying? :D  Ultimately the timing ticket is all that matters,mph is the best dyno for me ;)

cheers richie

Hi Neil,

That info is all very interesting indeed.

Danny's car was recently run up on a Dyno Dynamics Rolling Road which seem to be becoming more popular in the South East anyway, alledgedly for accuracy and consistency.

I agree with you the numbers are intresting and it's nice to have big one's but the real deal is as you say to endure your motor is performing as well as it can be efficiency wise etc.

My old JMR 2276 made 201 bhp at the flywheel no cooling on John's Stuska dyno. Within a week or two I took the bug down to Power Engineering and had it rolling roaded just for comparison and we got 202 bhp calculated at the flywheel with if memory serves 165 bhp at the wheels so nearly a 40 bhp loss through the transmission.

For those racing with cooling attached ( fanbelts ) the anount of power they sap varies and seems relative to the amount of power the engine produces - in general the more the engine makes the higher the losses seen to drive the fan.

On my new motor fitted with a "power pulley" this saps 14 bhp when belt is fitted.

if you want me to get your car into the 8s just let me know  ;)
 ;D

You Raise another point here Shane, I didn't run cooling at all - when I had the little 1600 in the car I found that it made around 4/10th difference - yes, it was only in the high 15's, but with the belt on it wouldn't get out of the 16's at all.

Do some work on the engine and you do not need any NOS  ;)
My wife Karin did some 11,0 passes with our small 2,3 engine and her 660 kg car .. at Bitburg uphill
Udo

Car looked really good at the show. Congrats.

thanks  ;D i polished it as well :D

who polished it????? :P

 :D you did  ;D but to be fair it was dirty when i got there and i did give it a once over  ;)

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 ;D 8)

Lovely!

bit better today 11.54 @118mph  8)

Good work Danny, that's really cooking for a n/a motor  8)

11.45@119.5mph today  8) 8)

Congrats Danny, well deserved mate.

Well done Danny. You ran good numbers all weekend and deserve to with all the effort you put in to your racing. 11.45, wow and I'm sure your going to continue to set new pb's on a regular basis   ;D

went to dragstalgia this weekend pissed with rain saturday but sunday was awesome had  runs 2 with the brakes rubbing on new drums  ::) 12.32 :-[,11.49,   11.35 ;D
11.04 @121.5mph  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D  then got all nervous thinking the next run would be a 10 so i cocked up the launch and ran 11.2 :D last run was a 11.09
all in all a great day and very close to a 10  :o 8) 8)

It was a good day, I'm knackerd lol

thanks again for your help andy  8)

few passes at shakey on sunday track wasnt good as i couldnt get the car to hook up  but ran 11.03 @124.5mph so another small increase  :)
got the car booked in at power engineering to get the map altered to run on race fuel and im going to get the nitrous jetted properly as well :)

Oooshhhh tens here we come :)

C'mon you bad boy let's be 'avin those tens now please  ;D and less whinging about crappy tracks and messed up launches !  ;)  :D

It's because I wasn't there lol

next time  :D

a slowmom vid of the car hooking up at the pod at dragstalgia when i say hooking up i mean taking small chunks of track on the header  :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3BWLQPVvBQ&feature=youtu.be

Whaa that's crazy  ;D

edited and replied as a pm instead ;)

cheers richie

went to the rollers today fitted 65rwhp jets and had the map adjusted for race fuel car made another 20hp after work and even made another 2hp na over pump gas even with 4 deg retard  :D so looking forward to some testing at the pod on saturday :D

So what whp are you making now and does it include the nos?

176 na with belt on and 255 on the bottle the dyno is a bit tight on the numbers shane did a power run on the same dyno then went to another one and i think he made 18 more on the other one?

Looking forward to hearing how you get on with this now Danny!

Yep as Danny says, I did back to back dyno rolling road sessions. No changes to set up at all. Both Dyno Dynamics rollers but the one Danny uses has a different newer software package and tends to read low compared to bhp figures previously achieved at other rolling roads. Even the technician where Danny goes says across a broad spectrum of cars his customers report this dyno seems to read around 15 bhp low as a calculated flywheel figure. My own car read 184 bhp flywheel ( with cooling attached ) and muffler at this road then read 200 bhp at the other dyno dynamics road. So I noted a 16 bhp difference.

If you apply that to Danny's figures his 176 bhp flywheel figure becomes 192 bhp which would seem about what you would expect with his spec 2276 efi motor n/a. Therefore his NOS figure with 65 hp jets of 255 becomes 271 bhp at flywheel on gas.

as long as it makes the bloody thing go 4hundreths faster ill be over the flipping moon ;D

 :D sounds ace dude!

Cant wait to see it at Action, im guessing you'll be there?

ohh yes  :D

hmmm best today was 11.2 with a 1.72 60ft  >:( >:( the track was not good very frustrating as there was a tailwind  as well  ::)

still no 10 had a big headwind but had fun trying to get the car to corner on a spool and slicks  ;D
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GREAT,a slalom,that car is multifuntional  :D

nurbergring next i reckon  :o :D

Hey Danny !!
Bloody cool bud ! Good to see ur up for anything
as usual.
Don't worry about that spool !! Hand brake her into the corners
And power on and out ... Ala drifting style !
Good on ya !

Wat ya run today ? ET "s not slalom !??

Keep at it !!
Tony Thailand

more 11.0s   ::) had to give it a try but the dots were not letting go much i tried a dougnut but it started going on 3 wheels  :P :D

10.79 baby  ;D

NICE WORK!!

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decided to have a go at making a alt stand for the new engine im actually quite proud of it  :D engine is going over to gac this weekend to be built up run in on the dyno
hopefully have it in the back of lil lizzy before crimbo and ready for another season of abuse  ;D

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Nice ;)  From what car did you take it?

Michael

its a denso unit i belive from a diatsui

Die Shitsu?

 ;D Nice work Danny. Thought you been quiet lately ! Beavering away I see  ;)  I'll have to scoot over soon for a gander.

Cheers

Shane.

Thanks is that from the LX or the GLX version? ;D

Michael

New motor?

What's the spec Danny? ;D

Lee

2232 flange crank fk89,comp elims,50mm twm throttle bodies cr will be around 10.5 and a bigger shot of gas 100-150??????

Wow,

That's going to be a monster! Did you build it?

Lee

LOL

What's so funny?
Lee

I think Danny's limit is building a sandwich ;D

cheers richie

pretty much /\/\. engines are way beyond me im loving learning to drive the car thats enough for now i am learning a lot as far as basic mecanics are but anything inside the engine is defo out of bounds  ;D

pretty much ready to be built now the csp linkage with the billet base is much nicer than the older one i have on old motor  :)
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Danny is this a complete new motor or is it your old motor up graded.

complete new motor mate  :)

Can't wait to see how this goes Danny, nice work mate!

not sure how much more power it will make n/a but it should make for a nice strong nitrous motor  :)

how cool is this painting of lil lizzy  8) 8) 8)

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not realy i like it

cheeer andy

works do today so no progress other than an hangover tomorrow  ;D

i finally got motor over to engine builders last week    ;D cam and cr are slightly different  11.5-12.1 and a scat c75

Good to hear mate ! Is Alan doing the work on your 2332 chap?  ;D

yes mate he will be making it go fast  :D

took the car to the dyno for a retirement shootout so i can compare new motor when fitted
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Very cool I can't see the results  ;D

new engine is close to being finished . its bolted to the dyno now and needs a few wires connected then hopefully itll produce some nice results  :D

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Cool  ;D

Great looking motor. What header is that?
Lee

its a temporary berg 2" i will have a turbo thomas one made later on in the year

Nice looking motor Danny. Don't want view it from that angle too often ;)

Want to sell it when you finished with it?
Lee

yes i will  ;)

Let me know, have you got a matching stinger?
Lee

yeah its in the back of the picture  ;)

Oh yeah ::)
You going to be ready for uk drag day then?

damn right i will be  :o i was hoping to be at vworld show with it but engine has taken a bit longer to get right .hopefully it should be a nice strong motor and get me a bit deeper into the 10s .lucases motor made 191fwhp on the same dyno i have it on so it will be interesting to see how much difference the headwork makes ?

So you bought the heads from Lucas then?
Lee

no my heads are the same spec as lucases comp elims apart from mine have now been heavily reworked and now have 20 odd % more flow

211fwhp @7k  first pull but tps shat itself so no more till new one is delivered tomoz thatll do me but alan is confident theres a bit more in there

With gas ;)

lol no mate thats all natural :D

Just winding you up. See you in a couple weeks. Are you thinking of doing Street Nationals?

Nice,how does that compare to the last engine N/A?

cheers richie

old motor made 184 with the belt on and 190 witout so even if it dont make any more its a nice improvement and the line was still going skyward at 7k i think the incresed flow of motor should make for a fun motor when its got 100shot of gas in it  :D

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Cool ;)

getting there
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ran some copper lines for now ill redo them in nickel once ive got it all done  :)

its alive  :D ;D :D :D bit of a tidy around the wireing put the slicks on and were off to dragday  8)

Great news,
Just got to fill mine with oil and I am ready too:)
See you there
Lee

Awesome  ;D

See you all there.

Bring me a XL stitch up t shirt burnie :) pls

I'll have quite few with me.

Coolio :)

car ran good on the first few passes after  "oilfiltergate"  :D fitted a 30 shot of gas for tomorrow so we will see how it compares to the last motor on a small shot of gas .it certainly feels a lot more powerful na with 2 11.9s with a pretty poor 60ft as 11.8 was the best i ever ran on the old motor na

right a few issues with oilfiltergate turning into oildownthetrackgate on the sunday due to me not nipping up the oil pressure relif nut  ::) :o
resulting in the rngine buggering up the big end bearings  :( ...... anyhow on the way back from the track i rang alan from GAC he told me to bring it in and he will check it just in case, good job i did anyhow its all back in thew car now running oil lines on correctly  :D the new bgasser wings are on drilled and painted with the flake dummy headlights all from east coast gassers (robthemanx)  ;) the last thing to do before i can finally call the car car finished is a trip to prosign for neil to put the credits on the rear 1/4
but its finally looking how i first imagined it to  ;D ;D ;D
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i have a whole list of people to thank for advice help and piss taking . now all i need to do is run some decent times  :D

Looks great Danny, see you at Gary's.   :)

great weekend at garys picci car ran great a little pb 10.77 so thats good once i get a decent shot of gas in it and sort the map out as it felt flat at the top end (think its going very rich)i think it will really fly  :) very happy and its back in the lockup not broke  :D ;D

well it was a bit broke lol , few issues sorted and off to dragstalgia fitted a black magic clutch that took all day saturday to get all 4 gears but on sunday once i got tyre pressure right for track it hooked up and ran 10.65 @124mph so very pleased with that  :D

Awesome, well done Danny :)

Well Done Danny ;D

crap track saturday but good banter and car is very happy at the moment  :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4yNDdiRzNI&feature=share time was 10.67 for this run

10.47@129mph i think there is a little more in it if all the elements line up  :D so im going to stick with the 96 fwhp jets for this season and wait to make sure engine is all good in winter rebuild before upping the jets to 120-150 over next season

right a few changes are happening this winter car is with jim at cotsweld for a irs conversion and a few upgrades to the cage etc popped over today and was blown away by the job he is doing  ;D

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Car is looking good Danny
Nice work Jim (as always)

Hi Danny

I was at Jim's last month talking over plans for my car and while drinking tea, we stood at the back of yours for a while and used it as reference.

Certainly looks different now  ;D Those arms look great !

Good luck next year
Darren

Looking great Danny. :)

An amazing car that just keeps getting better. :)

Dude  8)

cheers ,jims work is second to none,i cant wait to get it all back together and start running some decent times,  8)
theres a few more bits being done by jim updates will be posted after my next visit to cotsweld racecars  :)

Same engine set up going back in or something different?
Lee

enine and gearbox is now in clarkies car.gearbox is 091 with vertigate shifter,new engine is 2443 turbo chargecooled with 2 stages of nitrous and dry sump

I like the way you say you'll start running some decent times! I'd consider 10.3s pretty decent! How far into the nines do you expect to go Danny?

no idea neil, ultimatley im hoping to go low 9s but im not sure what itll take to get there, i would just like to run regular high 9s
10.3s was amazing considering the badly setup car as it was before, but i dont think there was longevity in using 150 hp of nitrous all the time,i still believe there was a high 9 in the old setup if i had the car setup properly as the coilover and torsion bars combined with stock springplates etc were not doing the job

Wow :o
That's going to be fun

hopefully lee i guess itll take a while to get it all setup but it should keep me happy for a few seasons  :)

See you at the agm?

yep a plate of nachos and a snooze  :D

Oooh that's nice, how narrow is the rear end now? Are you upping wheel/tyre size? I like the IRS setup, it should remain constant rather than camber on launch.
That engine turbo, nitrous combo should certainly liven things up not to say the old one wasn't  :o Can't wait to see this back out on track.

no idea how much narrower it is  :-[ :D im going up to  a 9 inch slick but wanted to be able to fit a 10 inch under there as well if needed ,i have no idea what to expect from the new setup ,but a few pbs would be nice  :D :D

cage is done i need wider arches but i figured it would very happy with the work jims done and looking forward to getting it back next week

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looks really good  ;)

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Hi Danny,
Cage looks great. Have you got new front wheels to match? Also what's the rude height going to be?
Lee

rear wheels are just for mockup fronts are weld magnums and rears are convo pro starcuts dunno what the rude height means lo lbut itll be as it leaves jims  :D

old jim sure can pannel out a racecar....  8)
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And he's fast while doing it ;D ;D  Seems to take me forever

Michael

best pop in to the newsagents on the way to work in the morning....  :D



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Is that photo shop?  :o

Looks like it to me

Wow!  Good for you dude..... Car looks fantastic!

a few more bits done the shifter and box is good so did a bit of rattle can black inside to clean it up a bit  :D
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terminator skull
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had a go at welding up a water tank for chargecooler....just waiting on the weld on filler neck then i can check if it holds water  :D
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and rolled it out in the nice warm sun we had today  :)
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 :)
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looks fXXken ace mate bring on those nines  ;D

Glad you got those rear wings fitted mate , you got enough room for the tyre now ?

Rob

Roll on 2015 season for this car and too the many years of racing...

Can't wait to hit the track again guys  ;D

just about i thinnk but its close....  :) not going any wider if it catches ill get narrower walled tyres as i didnt want to go wider than stock really

Hard to tell at the moment without the engine, it's on the launch when it squats.

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so got the new wheels and the front beam narrowed car looks great very happy and have found the love again cant wait for next season now  :D


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That looks fantastic!   

thanks mate ,it was a toss up between these and the radir 18s but i had been warned about the fitting o fthe radirs so went with what i htink is the modern equivelent of halibrand 12 spokes
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I must admit , I was a bit dubious when you asked me to make some 2 inch oversize rear fenders with a flare on too , but with the fat rear end the car has now they really work well . Will you have enough clearance for the tyre when it squats ?

Looking forward to seeing it out again !

to be honest mate these are the old ones .i had issues with the offset on other rims even with oversize wings so i ordered a new set with much deeper backspace  there was a lot of clearance inside wheel on irs setup so i managed to get full travel of suspention without foulding the ol dwings  :) :) :) 

looked wicked today bud cant wait to see it back at the track

thanks for your help pushing it back in shed  :D

Oh yeah , shows how much I know . Can't even tell what wings are what !

Looking good anyway !

cheers mate  ;D thanks to your giving in  after me hassling you for ages to make the gasser parts  8)

nitrous motor is ready to be fitted so hopefully in two or 3 weeks it'll be race ready.....
motor made 242fwhp today on dyno so with some gas should get the job done ?

242fwhp? would you share the current specs?  this is an animal.

84x94 fk47  11.1 cr  GAC 46x38 comp elims ,efi

What crank you got in that?

And when you drop the oil, can I have it as it should boost the hp of my engine having merely been ran in yours. Any ideas for the first outing?

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Whoa Danny !!    That is some seri-arse normally aspirated power from a 2332 mate :-)   Alan must them heads flowing like a hurricane now......be interesting to see how it feels with an FK47 in there now too. Good Job and look forward to seeing you crack the 9's

Shane.

billet scat flange crank mate

so the engine is in and running finally  :D theres still a fair bit to do but it should be ready to race next weekend  8)

pick a track and i'll see you there.  ;D

Pod next Saturday? if so I will bring the white car ;)

cheers Richie

bit closer to being race ready.... got to knock up some inner wings/tubs/ type of things to stop shit going into the throttle bodies :o
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looks great ;)

drove it round the yard today .got out shaking like id just run a pb  :D :D :D :D feels great to have it ready to race again its been way to long so hopefully there wont be to many gremlins to sort at the track next weekend.... :-X :)
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My old nitrous 2332 with the same cam but with 10.8:1 CR, Jeff Denham Comp Eliminator heads and 51.5 IDA`s dyno`d 227hp. The engine responded really well on nitrous but unfortunately I could not get the clutch to hold due to a leaking wedgemate.

I wish you good luck on the race track!

Best rgs
BB

looks great, good luck next weekend ;)

thanks i cant wait to run it again been too long  :)

testing went ok got a issue with a bit of slip in first that is intermittent .could be driver error ?not sure main issue i had was the starter motor broke so i bought a cheap one to get back on track and that lasted about 5 starts.... but it ran 11.9  with either slip or massive wheelspin ????? in first so ill take that for a first weekends testing  :) roll on the next outing  :D
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nice picture  ;)

I wondered what was going on - I was following the reports on Eurodragster and saw a pic of Lizzy but then didn't see your number in the qualifying charts - no-one had names listed either, which was odd. Is it worth sticking a go-pro on the side of the car pointing at the back wheels to see if that gives any hints?

new starter is fitted  got a few changes on nitrous trigger to sort .and finally have the 2 step setup so some more testing this weekend at shakey  8) :D

so the car is running well getting a little clutch slip in first on launch  so 60 fits are bad  but had a few 11.6 passes at 115mph  with 1.74 60fts   and one 1.62 60ft but missed 4th and had to shut off as a pushrod shit itself at the top end  but still ran 11.5  at 110 mph so plenty of potential ,motor feels soooo strong  8)

quick update ,had loads of gremlins that I've been working through or more like muddling through  :D anyhow most issues seem to be sorted now the rear end seems to work well and the zero camber change on rear is very noticeable with traction on the line ,playing with the cm adjustments to get the launch better and it ran 10.36 and 10.37 with fairly poor 60fts so i think theres a fair bit more in it yet
very happy with the whole car so big thanks goes to all involved in helping /working on car

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Well done Danny.
The wheelie bars on the lupo made my son laugh so much  ;D

10.26@133.6mph so chipping away 😁

Getting closer  ;D

second pass it almost hit wall so i called it a day and left with a big smile on me mug  :D roll on fridays peak performance  8)

Where were you today? Pod?

yeah just rwyb track was bad from all the rain but it was a fun day

That's an even better result if track wasn't up to usual standards.

I got a nice picture of Ian from Blackett Photography.

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Good call  8)

And a pb for frank also. Well done

it was a fun day busy rwyb but we both ran a pb so what more can you ask .made a few changes to the micro switch setup ...again  :D ::)  so hopefully friday it might run another pb.....

Get some pics of the ego wall up Danny  ;)

 ;D  :D

bug is all built back up apart from a couple of little jobs its ready to race so as soon as the pod opens ill go have a few passes in the old girl  8) :D

bug went up track a few times today .apart form a dodgy fuel reg ending play it was ok for a test day .new track is going to be really good  8)
thanks to luke and richie for helping me  8)

so the motor is back in bug after a new case and barrels due to the incident  in fiat..... if it fires up tomoroow and they have room I'm hoping to test it at the kids fun day on thurday  then get some passes on it before starting to hit it with a load of gas again ...fingers crossed :-)

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new pb for bug  after a couple of great days testing  10.05 @130 mph with a 1. 31 60'
over the moon with that one  :D 8)

Good work Danny! Just been looking at the pictures of Saturday on Eurodragster and saw you were there. That's almost all three of your cars in the nines?

yes i guess it is .im confident it will run the number with more time working it out but car hooks up hard and runs straight so all good on that front just needs more power....

few runs form sat night and sunday  https://youtu.be/EyL7-RLOPAI

9.96@130mph... with 1.29 60'  :D

Congratulations!!! Well done!

Well done Danny, perseverance pays off 8)

i feel tired now its done  :D many many hours in lockup working on it to get it fixed and back out only to break again and then fix .... :P
all worth it though when it comes together and runs the number

Good job!

Congratulations! I remember running my first nines back in May 1994. A great feeling you'll never forget. ;)

its the one I've been waiting   for as its a pan car well chuffed and its not broke lol

all tucked up for winter race ready for next season  :D

car is all ready to go again with a few little changes to hopefully get a little quicker  :)

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One of the most iconic cars of the uk vw drag racing sence that got me into racing.

7 years of crewing and getting that car on point  ;D

doorslammers didn't go as planned couldn't get 3rd gear after fitting the spare box so got knocked out in first round  of elims  .was a great event though and cant wait to go to next years one  :)