Warren G
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no, in surely it would be faster with traction?
then surely pointless spinning up, as it would be faster with less power, or better boost control?
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Chris S
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naa mate, thats if im fuking about.
it does 1.83 60ft and gets to 8th mile @100mph
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Warren G
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i see, was gonna say!
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taylorboosh
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i dont think its a bad time tbh, id be over the moon with it, ive never did a qaurter mile either though
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Graham88
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quote:
Originally posted by Warren G
i do find santa pod to be less grippy that the road tbh, as i can lanch with alot more traction on the road
Somebody talking sense at last
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Originally posted by john-d
i dont think its a bad time tbh, id be over the moon with it, ive never did a qaurter mile either though
I'm pleased with it, room for improvement, but pleased
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Nic Barnes
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lol at a pva glued purpose built drag strip being less grippy than a shitty uk road.
are you people on glue?
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richc
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I went to pod last year with a friend from work and he did a 15.3 in his corsa D sri turbo! I thought it would of been quicker tbh! But thats what time it did so...
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Warren G
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nic - i guess all the rubber being layed down then it rains, and gets hot some how makes it slippery
a normaly road has more grip, everytime there, if i do the same launch it will just spin alot easier
a corsa d sri turbo is only 150bhp, suprised it done it that quick tbh
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Ash_EP3
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
106 and saxo always get good launch. 14.9 aint bad at all. 16 odd seconds to 100mph is good for standard front wheel drive car really.
Very true, almost lost to my mates saxo vtr (modded) the other day 
He had a very aggressive launch (smoke and everything ) compared to me pulling away at 3k (which in the civic is nothing...). 0-50 he was actually ahead! Finally reeled him in when the vtec kicked in 
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Chris S
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did vtec kick in yo??
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Fad
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
lol at a pva glued purpose built drag strip being less grippy than a shitty uk road.
are you people on glue?
Clearly when you put it like that
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dhdev
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I think the grip available at Santa Pod varies massively with the prep and weather conditions. I went there with my E30 M3 that would struggle to spin in 1st in the dry on the public roads, yet at the pod was twitching in third and a nightmare to launch. That was on a very cold day at the Pod early in the year. Yet when I went there with the Nova for FHM magazine and we had to park up on the strip and get out of our cars for photos, the track was so sticky it was pulling my trainers off my feet (literally) and pulling away after the photos it was like having the handbrake on!
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Daimo B
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If people warmed up their tyres with a proper burnout, the stickyness would be vastly improved.
A quick 2 second spin will not do anything.
Also, when your on the road, most of the time you are driving (funnily enough) hence your tyres are warming up.
When you get to santa pod, you have gone no-where. Your tyres are cold and don't have much grip. A prolonged burnout to get the heat into the tyres makes them sticky. Put hot sticky tyres on a sticky track and it will work.
Cold days are the worst at pod though, cold tyres, cold track = no grip at all, not even if its laced with Loctite all the way up.
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Nic Barnes
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yep.
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big eck
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4WD ftw 
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3CorsaMeal
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its all irrelevant half seconds and seconds, i don't see why people care so much when its everyday sort of cars
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Graham88
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I did a quick wheel spin before going up, it just skipped both wheels whereas before it span
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Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
its all irrelevant half seconds and seconds, i don't see why people care so much when its everyday sort of cars
im sorry? Whats the point in doing a quarter mile then? It is actually very relevant a half of a second or a second as thats what you are racing against. The time it takes to get from a standing start to the end of a quarter mile.
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Ojc
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I remember running up Santa Pod naked and it was very sticky
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SportBoy
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ive run at pod twice .. first time i went grip was about the same or slightly worse than the roads, second time i went it was amazeingly grippy 60ft times first time were 2.3 - 2.5 .
second time i went they were around 2.1 - 2.2 thats with road tyres too so didnt think it was too bad.
and the second time i had my 40 profile tyres on which i would of thought would have less grip than 45s
[Edited on 06-04-2010 by SportBoy]
[Edited on 06-04-2010 by SportBoy]
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Nic Barnes
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thats better 60ft's or as good as i get with track tyres/ ive never got quicker than a 2.2
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SportBoy
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yeah i got 1 2.1 and rest are mainly 2.2 which i was pretty inpressed with . that was on the porsche wheels aswell.
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Nic Barnes
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i really need to try pod out.
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SportBoy
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you do! .. when i found it grippy was at the PTM show .. there were a few proper slicked tyred cars going down too so dont know if that would of helped much.
first time was a rwyb with some plonkers from cs and was pretty useless
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Daimo B
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Nic you really do, just to see what time it can do.
Take it to PVS weekend and run?
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