UK's Fastest FWD 1/4 Mile 9.86 @ 148MPH

[RSTuning]

Congrats Specky

I know for a fact you wont be happy with that and we'll spend 10000000 hours on the dyno chasing a 9 dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEwowyJW9ys

 

[Nick172Cup]

Congrats to him, that is a huge acheivement tbf when there's 100's of drag cars that struggle to do that with either 4wd or rwd!

 

[Rob]

Seriously impressive time in a front wheel drive, well an impressive time in anything really!

Careful though, I hear Lynden's had the back seats out of the Abarth....

 

[hughesclio]

well done to both of you
you will have to drag him away from the pc today as he will be watching it on replay all day
awesome car.

 

[Christopher]

Seriously impressive time in a front wheel drive, well an impressive time in anything really!

Careful though, I hear Lynden's had the back seats out of the Abarth....

LOL.

 

[Ian_182]

Well done>And in a bloody tigra...lol

 

[Dave.]

thats bloody amazing mate!!

Im hoping for 190+ on friday! See you then!

 

[dalla]

Seriously impressive time in a front wheel drive, well an impressive time in anything really!

Careful though, I hear Lynden's had the back seats out of the Abarth....

Ha ha

 

[kevin.s]

i heard him on the mic after saying that his brake pedal just went to the floor after lol. bet that was scary

 

[lbrench]

Seriously impressive time in a front wheel drive, well an impressive time in anything really!

Careful though, I hear Lynden's had the back seats out of the Abarth....

FLOL

 

[Rob]

 

[RSTuning]

i heard him on the mic after saying that his brake pedal just went to the floor after lol. bet that was scary

He went past the turn off at the end and was so close to the gravel! Brakes or a parachute next i think!

 

[jamie rigby]

lyden will do that easy!

in all seriousness, congrats!

 

[JamesBryan]

He went past the turn off at the end and was so close to the gravel! Brakes or a parachute next i think!

Anything quicker than 10 seconds should have a parachute i think or some bloody good brakes!

Half a mile to slow down and he was close to gravel! Brakes must have faded bad

 

[Russ_16v]

As said fair play to Specky and Paul!

Now tell him to stop pissing about and get a 9.5

 

[jamie rigby]

Not far off the worlds fastest FWD ford either, keep going haha

 

[Andrew Cooke]

i heard him on the mic after saying that his brake pedal just went to the floor after lol. bet that was scary

master cylinder? I had one go "intermittent" at the top of harewood

 

[specky tigra]

am not sure whats going on with the brakes.

if i have my normal wheels on as in treads the brakes are fine, the problem starts when i put the big slicks on.
i do a run and the peddle just goes to the floor but pumps back up and then there fine till i do another run.

 

[jack_kemp]

am not sure whats going on with the brakes.

if i have my normal wheels on as in treads the brakes are fine, the problem starts when i put the big slicks on.
i do a run and the peddle just goes to the floor but pumps back up and then there fine till i do another run.

I'm assuming it doesn't have ABS?

 

[davo172]

I have raced this at santa pod a while back and i did pull on him too (a car lenth as I was quicker to react ! ) TBH I could of done with half a track start this THING is epic :approve: beat me by OVER 4.5 sec IIRC !!!!

 

[Andrew Cooke]

am not sure whats going on with the brakes.

if i have my normal wheels on as in treads the brakes are fine, the problem starts when i put the big slicks on.
i do a run and the peddle just goes to the floor but pumps back up and then there fine till i do another run.

I think my problem was related to heat in the bay, it's likely things will be hotter with the slicks on. However, you may be getting pad knockoff, it's possible that your uprights are distorting enough for the pads to push the pistons back. If the pedal comes straight back as soon as you pump it that's possible. When my MC went intermittent I could leave the car for a while, and when I came back it would be fine. After the new MC the problem went away.

Do you have decent front hubs? When I stripped the ones in my 5 (120mph traps) I'd opened the hub up along the splines like a Terry's chocolate orange. I swapped them for new shotpeened clio uprights, and since then I've gone to early Laguna ones, twice the weight of the original 5 stuff, but I'm trying to stop things moving about.