my first outing

[Bigtone]

went to Ten Of The Best on the weekend with SXOC.com for the cars first outing
and my first drive in 2yrs

heres what happened..



first off a big thanks to SXOC for sponsoring the team..

a big thumbs up to the team itself (did the club proud)

on a personal note..

Mike and myself got to ND's first thing Saturday morning to finish her off...

by 11.00 hrs she was as ready as she was going to be,

fired her up and I got to drive her for the first time in 2 yrs,

ND told me to do a few laps of the ind est, bring her on boost just to make sure everything was fine..

Well.... on my second lap I nailed it in second boost came in lit the rear tyres up arse end shot out

I fought the car straight... oh and I crapped myself :nod:

ND then set it from 1.2 bar to 2.0 bar and sent me back out:eek:

all I can say is she is scary fast with a slight traction issue...

and thaty was my total amount of practice for TOTB, we hitched the car up and left for Elvington...

I had a cracking but tiring 2 days,

had a right laugh all day Sunday, very relaxed feeling all day..

as for my times..

while Mr Purple / White and I were chatting on the strip (they had to clean a load of oil up)

Mike came over with some of my timming slips, first one 13.38, 12.59, 17.81:wack:(1st to 4th gear change)

12.07, 12.06, feck I thought am what do I have to do to get into the 11's...

then he showed me a 11.59 the bastid

we let out some air (down to 8psi) and did a 11.32 @ 131 mph (all with no driver aids not even a rev counter)

the top speed.. was a bit hair raising (side wind was blowing the car all over the place )

but I though feck it and just nailed it foot to the floor...

managed 186.8 mph (not bad for a mile)


I would just like to say thanks to Dave at ND for the 3 days he was on wire duty, ND for all his help :thumbs: even on the Sunday morning
(they had to change some pins in the ecu on Sunday)

and a huge thanks to Mike for all the help over the last 2 yrs to get her ready (would never done it without your help):thumbs: :thumbs:

team HQ


accomodation


calm before the storm

the MLR boys came and joined us for burgers and beer..good bunch of lads :nod:

at the start line

[Vlade]

11.32 on the first outing... not bad... not bad at all

[Draco]

That is some good shit, I am jealous....

[Gary57]

I love those tail lights.

[qewrty]

I love those tail lights.

cool pics & report guys!

did i miss something or did we recently start getting int'l interest? about time considering the beasts that lurk around here lately! (and i do mean lurk)

just to get them all listed in one place now, but i suppose that's what the garage functionality is going to address.

[jon]

Thanks for the write-up and congratulations on your first outing, impressive times

May I have your rims please, front or rear