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Been a long weekend which was mostly more suited to boats than drag racing, but here's the video of the weekends high-light for us  :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwbnYiYcdo&feature=share&list=UUs2s_xsGzwZVZCWDu_zWRNQ

Well done Richie and team. Its getting very close now ;D

Congrats again....well done!!!!   ;)

Congrats!!!  Well done!
From Skinne

>>>>bababaBAAAAAHHHHHHHHH....!!  NICE......

Brief recap of my weekend
 
Saturday only one pass, rain etc spoiled any chance of more,  9.4something@126mph I think, clutch hit to hard, rattled the tyres in 1st, I short shifted and it hit the wheelie bar hard and bent the middle bar again so just cruised up after it had a look at the wall while wheeling in 2nd gear but 60ft was coming back with a 1.29
 
Sunday 1st pass
 1st gear real good, spun the tyres a lot in 2nd and moved real hard out of shape, I got it back straight and just paced myself behind the guy in the other lane to try get a good qualifying pass, that idea backfired when he threw a rod out which I didn't know, I ran 9.12 to his 9.10 so did a good job of pacing with him ;D and 1.243 60ft
 
2nd pass, made a real tiny clutch adjustment and turned boost up in 1st gear, and down in 2nd, not much but hoped enough to get it to hook and stay hooked, trying to make it so there wasn't a big step up from 1st to 2nd, then waited 3 hours in the lanes while it rained on and off and really couldn't decide if to pack up and go home or not, sun finally came out so ran it, was lined up with a dragster which runs pretty on the number so just did my own thing.[Mark Fairhurst of Fairhurst racing, he used to run a Nova VW powered kit car with supercharger for you UK old farts who might remember and a gold 1303 I think] and he red lit which I didn't even notice as I was just trying to keep it straight and it runs 8.14@167mph, was happy with the improvement
 
Had to put a new fuel pressure reg in last week and found out that it doesn't rise at 1-1, but a little more so it was real fat, increments were  1.240 60ft and 5.22 1/8 but only 134mph, so gained 0.13 over the 8.20 run[5.35 at 1/8] but lost 5mph[8.20 was 139mph at 1/8]  8)



Next up for me is Top sportsman event end of July, no real rules, door cars only, quicker than 9.99, 2 races in one weekend a bracket and heads up, thought I might be able to upset a couple of the "proper race cars"  ;) :D

cheers Richie

Thank you, good luck to you all this year :)

Congrats Richie!! Keep the pedal to the metal and stay safe.

Best rgs
-K-

An here's the timing ticket  :)

Amazing!!! Congratulations Richie and Jo!!! well done!!!

Dear Richie

Big congratulations to U!
looks like U R runni' towarts the 7.xx  :o

C Ya at the tree at Nitrolympix. ;D

MeXX

Thanks, we are getting there slowly, I sent my entry in for Nitrolympix already so will be there for sure 8)

Super comp again

cheers Richie

Congrats to you Richie and team!! So cool to follow your progress  8)

Congrats - i would race super proet with that times :-)  So you can go with full throttle every race

See you Udo

Super Comp and f**k the index again

MeXX

Now you talk my language ;D


Udo, it is still way to inconsistent for a bracket class, I will just have fun to see how quick it will go and if I have a bad start try then to run near the index :)

cheers Richie

He just hasn't got the hang of this 8.90 bracket yet  ;D
Great work team, can't be long now! (easy for me to say  ;) )

Here's the in-car video    ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kihhA6F-xd4&list=UUs2s_xsGzwZVZCWDu_zWRNQ&feature=share

wow! my pulse went up just watching this  ::)

it is impressive to see how you have 'grown into the car' as you really look comfortable driving it. it must be part the seat time, but also making this beast do what you want it to do.

hats off.

Now that is good news, I think you will be very well received over there, it's going to be good to see!!

Congrats on the '14', from where I was standing it looked amazing, well done to the whole team.

Love to see the dragster take off and then you catch him like it was no big deal. Well done!

Richie congrats.

That in car movie is cool, standard steering wheel  :o  ;D

Way to go Richie !!!!!!!!!  A great pass,   Mike McCarthy

Thanks Berger, been quiet a journey already :o :)


And with no aero stuff on the car and stock style front end, who would have thought it ;)   at what point do all the other cars trying to go quick cut the roof off?  :o :D

cheers Richie

Great job guys....and always good to see a doorslammer 'do' a dragster!!

167mph!!! Jezzz that's fast!!!!  :o

Good luck next time out......

Ian

What's the wind like in a convert at that speed?
Ever stick your hand out?

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And with no aero stuff on the car and stock style front end, who would have thought it ;)   at what point do all the other cars trying to go quick cut the roof off?  :o :D
cheers Richie
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I've been saying all along this 'aero' chit we get fed by 'experts' is Botox, all you need is common sense and driving ability.. You are proving it,,
you run it low and flat bottomed, and the ' folded down top' is clever, that helps clean up vortexes behind the car and pulls air out from the underside so generating downforce, also aided by good airspeed over the 'folded top' by the missing roof,  thats the key so many can't see, Even the gearbox crunches like a stocker lol...

Congrats Richie....it just keeps on going quicker ;)
And you told me at dragday "I'm rubbish at this engine building stuff"  ::) lol
See you later in the year as my plans come together
Cheers Chris

No idea, always trying to hang on ;D

I really don't notice it in the car at all, doesn't feel like a motorcycle for example

We are going to do some wool testing next time to see how the air is moving around to get a better idea of what's happening

cheers Richie

Yeah take a sheep as passenger ;)

Gr henri

I`ll bet the next improvement will be to shop of the windscreen  :D ;D

I think it would be far more effiecent to chop off the windscreen   ;)

One thing I do regret when building this was not to have the cage built lower so I could use an early screen and frame, it was built off the old car's measurements and I really think it would benefit being lower now, maybe even leaning the screen back a little. To late now

cheers Richie

I left the windscreen out of the Fiat as it pretty much doubles the frontal area...a torneau cover next should help with the airflow over the cockpit and it's nice and flat at the back.
But then I'm only planning on 125mphish... but I need all the help I can get with under 2.0lt and no hair dryer etc  :D
It also increases the sensation of speed....have to remember to put my googles on tho'!!

Outstanding work Rich and the YAC team! :)

Roll on August!

Cheers

Tom

Ian, do me a favour and do a pass with the screen and then one without to see what ET & MPH difference it makes? Ta ;D    If you need a little more help than the tonneau I am sure we could find room for a bottle in their :o :D

Oh and buy a proper helmet, googles!!! do you think its the 70s or something?  ;) ;D

cheers Richie

cool congrats sir richie ;) VW FAN CLUB lol

 :P :P

As it's raining here today I finally got time to upload the Slo-Mo video   :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOpNkZTioZk&list=UUs2s_xsGzwZVZCWDu_zWRNQ&feature=share

Congratulations team YAC and Richie! Amazing to see the slow motion video... looks like your only using 15mm of wheel travel at the back for the entire run! Never seen anything like it! Congrats, hope you catch the sevens soon!

That is seriously quick!!!! Congrats Mr Webb!!!

Hi Jon,

your eye sight must be way better than mine, I thought it was 17mm of travel ;D  If I could just figure out the shock sensors and get them to work I could actually tell you correctly, something for the winter.

I am not sure I have approached it in a conventional way, but with only 3 cars that went quicker than this that I know of and all of them having very different set ups there really isn't a path to follow, So I set it up how I think it should be this year, so far it works, and the car behaves how I would expect it to, which as I think you see on the in-car video allows me to be quite relaxed in it now :) 8) 
Still focusing on the 60ft and 1/8th mile as the MPH shows, so not sure how much progress I will make on the 1/4 mile ET but it will go quicker, that's for sure  :o ;D

cheers Richie

WOW!! Congratulations on your continued progress and success! It's just great to see the progressions of what you've done! Thanks for posting this.  8) All the best to you in the future.

This is brilliant to see, congratulations!

Congrats…
Ritchie and Mexx, You go to the race the week before Nytrolympix or to Nitrolympix?

Nitro olympix for me

cheers Richie

NitrolypiX

SC 403 Richie Webb
SC 404 MeXX

DoD

MeXX

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 8)

I believe one more will join us, but he only sent entry in last week so hopefully he is ok to race as well


cheers Richie

gr8  ;D
SC too  ???

MeXX

Not reserved, too much registration…

Well done Richie and Jo!

Allen

So i will do my best to lay some rubber in Hock for you this weekend.  ;D ;D

And maybe read of your new PBs one week later.

Good luck, guys!

As promised i did my best to leave some rubber for you, guys:
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Unfortunately i´ve been gringing the track, too.

That's not so good, hopefully no damage to car or track?  I am hoping its real sticky all the way down as its about 700ft I am having issues with wheelspin at about 140mph!!!!!! Its tricky to catch it at that speed :o

cheers Richie

No damage to track so far. But my header has been grinding too much.

As i got lined up against a S/C Dragster i was thinking of you, richie!

Unfortunately i missed 2nd gear after the car came down.  ::)

Otherwise it could have been really close.  ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShRe-rZmrLk

Looks fun, if you could have found 2nd while still up it would have really cool :o 8)

cheers Richie