Went down there yesterday.
What a good laugh that was.
Also went down with another board member Syanthan's E39 M5, Supercharged too, but by C.A. (who actually invited me to the event, which I confirmed I would attend ONLY at 7.30 AM on the day).
I have never been on a drag strip. But I loved it.
I loved all the variables that combine together, to determine your ultimate ET and Vmax.....
My car did admirably well considering, its on a stock clutch, and it sort of kept wanting to pop itself out of 1st gear when I tried to launch it quite hard.
On my first run of the day it popped out of first gear. This unfortunately set the precedent for me in terms of how hard I would attack on the day.
My best reaction time of the day was 0.116s but this prompted another episode of popping out of first gear.
I managed three 60 Ft times in the 2.0s range.
I am quite confident, if I can workaround the issue the car popping out of gear and keep my reaction times under 0.3s and 60ft in the same range or perhaps just under 2.0s, AND stop hitting the rev limiter (since fitting my Van Manen headers, the car revs its nuts off from 5000 rpm to 7000 rpm !!), I feel my car, without any further modifications, will run 12.6s/12.7s/12.8s. I am currently running the standard pulley size of 96mm, stock BMW clutch, 135000 Miles 1999 MY, and she drinks Castrol's finest at a rate of a Litre per 400/500 Miles when I am driving relaxed and alot more when I am using the whip liberally
My best time of the day was with my girlfriend on board ! :thumbsup:
PS: I will let member Syanthan discuss his runs and experiences of the day. But I must admit that he was suffering an E6 code (Drive by wire throttle issues).... This was leading to some pretty interesting issues....I kept catching glimpses of him in my mirror trying to man handle massive amounts of yaw, created by what seemed to be a massive amount of lack of traction, as the throttle was definitely not acting in a normal fashion.
PSS: The night before we did about 15 runs, on a private and deserted, stretch of road. Runs started at 60/70/80 mph and I remeber letting off at 170 mph a couple to times too
..... In 4th gear runs starting at 60 MPH he would pull on me...but I seemed to catch him pretty spectacularly when my ESS M5 came into the boost zone, and then sort of left the CA car quite comfortably...doing a 60 mph run in 3rd showed both of us staying with each other, but as the revs and speeds rose, during the run I would start pulling away....The runs we had at night give a much better representation of how powerful Syanthan's car actually is, than our drag runs the following day.
I also got the impression when I am over 100 MPH there was no way the CA car was going to catch me.....Although we will need to do more runs to confirm this
The CA car is a stunning machine, and really looks the business too ! It basically shouts "I MEAN BUSINESS, COME GET SOME"
Whereas my one is a little meak looking in comparison, but good luck if you can catch me
What a good laugh that was.
Also went down with another board member Syanthan's E39 M5, Supercharged too, but by C.A. (who actually invited me to the event, which I confirmed I would attend ONLY at 7.30 AM on the day).
































I have never been on a drag strip. But I loved it.
I loved all the variables that combine together, to determine your ultimate ET and Vmax.....
My car did admirably well considering, its on a stock clutch, and it sort of kept wanting to pop itself out of 1st gear when I tried to launch it quite hard.
On my first run of the day it popped out of first gear. This unfortunately set the precedent for me in terms of how hard I would attack on the day.
My best reaction time of the day was 0.116s but this prompted another episode of popping out of first gear.
I managed three 60 Ft times in the 2.0s range.
I am quite confident, if I can workaround the issue the car popping out of gear and keep my reaction times under 0.3s and 60ft in the same range or perhaps just under 2.0s, AND stop hitting the rev limiter (since fitting my Van Manen headers, the car revs its nuts off from 5000 rpm to 7000 rpm !!), I feel my car, without any further modifications, will run 12.6s/12.7s/12.8s. I am currently running the standard pulley size of 96mm, stock BMW clutch, 135000 Miles 1999 MY, and she drinks Castrol's finest at a rate of a Litre per 400/500 Miles when I am driving relaxed and alot more when I am using the whip liberally
My best time of the day was with my girlfriend on board ! :thumbsup:
PS: I will let member Syanthan discuss his runs and experiences of the day. But I must admit that he was suffering an E6 code (Drive by wire throttle issues).... This was leading to some pretty interesting issues....I kept catching glimpses of him in my mirror trying to man handle massive amounts of yaw, created by what seemed to be a massive amount of lack of traction, as the throttle was definitely not acting in a normal fashion.
PSS: The night before we did about 15 runs, on a private and deserted, stretch of road. Runs started at 60/70/80 mph and I remeber letting off at 170 mph a couple to times too
I also got the impression when I am over 100 MPH there was no way the CA car was going to catch me.....Although we will need to do more runs to confirm this
The CA car is a stunning machine, and really looks the business too ! It basically shouts "I MEAN BUSINESS, COME GET SOME"
Whereas my one is a little meak looking in comparison, but good luck if you can catch me