Style Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Guy I know went to Crail today for the Ultimate Street Car event and put a snap up on facebook of a black Supra. Had a low level spoiler and was running drag tyres by the looks of things. This belong to anyone on here? Gutted I never went now, only 40 minute drive away. Would've came over for a chat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenblockseal Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 It was me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Style Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 How'd you get on? Weren't up against that orange Skyline were you? That thing packs a punch! Guy I know came 2nd in his class in his DC2, ran a 14.0. Looks like it was a good turnout Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenblockseal Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 (edited) Got to crail, weather was decent, decided to give it a go on the ET Drags, ( i got Tdr to take a picture of these after 2 runs to show this forum members realy howbad crails surface is, Im sur ehe will post it soon ) , Got to stage and the starter noticed my HKS BOV had worked lose i suspect it was when we refitted the front bumper during the night. so Had to bodge it up as the retaining circlip was missing. Back into the queue and got to the start, done my burnout , Staged lights whent green, Wheel spin in first, then tankslappered, then 2nd and tank slappered, then 3rd and same again, got traction in 4th and ran a 12.8 Second run, i gave my mate who helps me with the car drive with TDR as a passenger, He got a decent start but sturggled with wheelspin, and went from 3rd gear to 6th gear and ran a 13.2 At this point one of the Crail staff aproached me and told me they were throwing me out of USSC for running full on slicks, So i changed to my ET Streets, Which were more grippy in crails surface, Got into the queue and the big ends went as i sat waiting, I was gutted to say the least. Edited October 16, 2011 by kenblockseal (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Style Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 Sounds like you had a pretty bad day And you're right the surface is pretty pathetic. Seems as though all big power cars have trouble getting the power down at Crail. Wonder where all the money goes that people pay to get in! Pretty gutting when the big ends went I bet! Least it wasnt half way down the strip then it would really have gone pear shaped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Unlucky Kenny, you just seem to have no luck mate. Did you chance shells mate? I thought your car was blue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tDR Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Aye I was there to see Kenny run after the epic effort that went into the build - following various setbacks - to get it there. Absolutely gutted for Kenny and for Martin who'd poured his heart into the build too these are real enthusiasts who did all the build work themselves and deserved to see some glory come from it. Crail's surface was indeed its usual piss poor standard with pottholes and loose stones everywhere - here's a pic of the ET slicks after the first 2 shakedown runs: Hard work trying to launch on that amount of debris, regardless of the tyres. Cheers, Brian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 seen this track for the first time 2 weeks ago, it really is piss poor, no way id take any car on that, Santa Pod all the way. Even if it is a good trek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tDR Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 My 11.9 at Crail on stock turbos turned into an 11.5 at Pod - 'nuff said IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L18msy Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 I was also at Crail a few weeks back, i hadn't been for quite a few years. It was a hovel back then, i thought that it might have been improved a bit with the money it takes at the gate. Man i was wrong. I wont be making that trip through again anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieP Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Love to see more pictures of the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Style Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 Aye I was there to see Kenny run after the epic effort that went into the build - following various setbacks - to get it there. Absolutely gutted for Kenny and for Martin who'd poured his heart into the build too these are real enthusiasts who did all the build work themselves and deserved to see some glory come from it. Crail's surface was indeed its usual piss poor standard with pottholes and loose stones everywhere - here's a pic of the ET slicks after the first 2 shakedown runs: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/tdr1980/Forum%20Stuff/4bfccff2.jpg Hard work trying to launch on that amount of debris, regardless of the tyres. Cheers, Brian. Didn't realise how much effort went on to the build to make it on time, hope everything gets sorted! Theres always next year too. Looked for a project thread but couldn't find anything. Would love to see more of the car too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenblockseal Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 As you wish jamie When i bought the car from Gruggs in July, In its ramshackel state, I was told there was a few days of tidying to do to get it ready, When we seeen the state of the workmanship we decided to redo everything ourselves. Though i was assured the engine was perfect, I should have trusted my better judgement and stripped it down as i know better, But i was assured it was in good health and never bothered and concentrated on converting it to Manual and fixing all the faults. 3 Engines later after various failures ( I should have forged it properly, but due to having less than 2 weeks to get it mapped painted and raced i went for replacement engines) this was it yesterday at 6pm on the dyno in Falkirk. 1am this morning it looked like this - 4am we had this - 8am i had this - Heres a few pics i took as i unloaded it from my truck back at my garage in disgust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey. Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Holy smokes super fast respray!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Wow that was a quick colour change. Explains the reason I thought I was losing it though. Absolutely gutted for you mate, you must be due a break soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieP Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 That was a quick respray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenblockseal Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Weve done quicker colour changes lol, its easy when you have the facilities and a good oven, Needs flattened and pollished to bring the shine up, but for off the gun its pretty decent. In the last week i think ive had less than 15 hours sleep so i was like a zombie today my reaction times were terriable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Style Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 Wowzers! When tRD said you put a lot of effort into this recently, I didn't realise he meant this much!! You did very well to get it as far as it did, crying shame it packed up What power did you make on the dyno? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenblockseal Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 We only took it to 525bhp@ 1.4 bar due to it being on stock internals and valvetrain, Aswell as the intake temp sensor not working correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Style Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 Good figures regardless mate. You've got all winter to have it perfect now lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony tt Posted October 16, 2011 Share Posted October 16, 2011 Good effort, shame Crail is a dump it has the potential to be good but seems like there's no interest from the owners or organisers at it. My car certainly won't be anywhere near that surface. Pod all the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tDR Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 I just wish there had been more time for you Kenny so RyanG could have worked his magic not just on power but with getting all the safetys in place on the ECU as the Syvecs is an excellent bit of kit for keeping an engine together as well as for power and all the nice toys like traction and nitrous control. I saw an orange R33 run a 10.46 so he was the big overall class competition, not sure who was running fastest in RWD class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Style Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 I just wish there had been more time for you Kenny so RyanG could have worked his magic not just on power but with getting all the safetys in place on the ECU as the Syvecs is an excellent bit of kit for keeping an engine together as well as for power and all the nice toys like traction and nitrous control. I saw an orange R33 run a 10.46 so he was the big overall class competition, not sure who was running fastest in RWD class. 11.68 was the fastest RWD time of the day from a guy in an MR2. Not much competition other than that. Pontiac Trans Am was 2nd in the 13's. And that R33 is a pretty wicked machine. Running around the 700bhp mark iirc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kenblockseal Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Crail wiped my time because i was running ET Drags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Wow-that's a quick build! Nice looking car-black ftw! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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