What A Disaster !!

[SGHOM]

Santa pod, sunday 18th July !!
Met Richard [ zentac ] & the rest of the FTO owners, as planned !!

convoyed to the pod.

joined in with the FTO stand.

bought my 76 cool blue, & put all of it in the car !

stripped out the interior [ ready to take on Daves 13.5 ]

signed on, paid my £15 & joined the queue. :-b

missed my launch, [ I was along side Richard, & had one eye on him ] & ran a PATHETIC 14.35 secs :$

Never mind, got all day to do it in !! then realised why my nitrous assisted 1st run was so poor ?? I forgot to turn the bottle on !! :lipsrseal :$ :$

Now the best bit !! ...................the rain came. :( then went......... so they dried the track !! about 10 cars got on, then the rain came again !!

So to cut a long story short, around 200 cars sat there in the queue for 6 hours !!! [ untill 4.30 ] when we finally gave up & came home !!
From setting off, to getting home, 12 hours, !! for one run ! I hope my £39's worth of cool blue enjoyed it's trip back up the M1.

anyway.............. here's the only 2 pics I took ! :$ Me & 3 FTO's [ 2nd one is Richards ] & mine, stripped & ready for some fun !!

[Physician]

Sheeeesh - all that work stripping the interior. Hard luck. :sad3:

[zentac]

Best picture of the day has to be

http://www.mitsubishi-fto.net/download/best.jpg

I was expecting him to catch me up once I got going but the gap remained the same :)

[zentac]

One of the FTO Owners got a video of this run as well, I will post it when I get it :)

[SGHOM]

ahem/cough !!

reaction time; .664 / 1.874 [ I tried to launch ] :$
60ft 2.430 / 2.143
330ft 6.397 / 5.992
1/8 et 9.54 / 9.20
1000ft 12.2 / 11.9
1/4 ET 14.582 / 14.351
MPH 94.70 / 94.71


I rest my case your honour !!! :laugh: :laugh: :p :p

[zentac]

na na na bit of paper dont matter, its first across the line :p

[SGHOM]

All credit due Richard !! your car went well. I'm sure there's more to come also :-b
I just can't believe we sat there all day waiting for the rain to stop !! 'twas never going to stop !! :$ :$








But mine's faster !! :lipsrseal :$ :laugh: :laugh:

[zentac]

Only until wednesday when my exhaust is done and can push it to over 1 bar. I checked my boost settings on the way home and it was only running 0.5 bar all day :-D Loads more to come....just need some traction to go with it now :dozey:

[Jimbo]

Gutted for you, Derek. :( With the weather like it was, I'm surprised you got any runs though - I was all set to come over, but I was convinced it would have been called off completely.

Did you try out the nitrous / cool blue combo on the M1, by any chance? :$ :lipsrseal

[Spirit]

All that hard work and expense, sorry to hear the bad news Derek :(

[SGHOM]

It wasn't bad news Pete !! It was all good fun, sat there in the queue for 6 hrs or so watching the tractors & the dryers go up & down the track !! :rolleyes5 :rolleyes5
YIPPEE !! It's dry !! start your engines.............................. Oh sh!t..... I'ts raining again. :laugh: :laugh:

[zentac]

Heres the video I mentioned, listen to that screaching from my tyres all the way up the track....sorry dont see much of the VR4 :)

Pod Video (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anthony.aycliff/RBatty.WMV)