TRP Racing Ford Falcon XR6T runs 9.1@159mph, update 8.48@165mph.

[prasac]

Originally Posted by CYC06T

Yeah - maybe. They are definitely supposed to be great turbos.

Time will tell if there is meant to be one under the hood.

On another note........I just wanna go racing again!! It's been far too long since smashing out a nice pass.

would be good to see

yeah, i know what you mean we want to get the Capri sorted 100% and back on track. there is a Track Championship April 21st should be a good event.

[Giant]

Yeah TC have good track prep and are well run. I hope its going to be cooler.

[prasac]

we have alway run best 60' and times at track championships, i think this time out we are going on radials and throwing some weight in, we need to practice with a 275 radial and weighing over 3200lbs.

[prasac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPEhyM3Pj0U

[prasac]

good to see u back mate, and still in one piece. any news on the car?

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by prasac

good to see u back mate, and still in one piece. any news on the car?

Yeah back on deck. Made it out to the TNT last weekend for a couple of hours but didnt get a chance to try and find you guys to say hello.

Car is back together and will be getting the two-step setup next week and go back on the dyno to see if we can push her a little harder.

Then its off to magazine shoot and hopefully to the track. There are not too many race days left at the moment, and I have some travel for work coming up, so will see where we end up.

Hows your beast coming along?

[prasac]

Originally Posted by CYC06T

Yeah back on deck. Made it out to the TNT last weekend for a couple of hours but didnt get a chance to try and find you guys to say hello.

Car is back together and will be getting the two-step setup next week and go back on the dyno to see if we can push her a little harder.

Then its off to magazine shoot and hopefully to the track. There are not too many race days left at the moment, and I have some travel for work coming up, so will see where we end up.

Hows your beast coming along?

sweet as, it's coming together that is the main thing.

we were probably in the staging lanes waiting to run, spent most of the day there, was busy Joe pumped out some good numbers in the Capri, our first time on a radial, 200lbs heavier, full exhaust, 275 radial she ran 8.53, 8.49 & 8.42, mph was down to 162mph and 1.36-1.39 60's she is fattening up after about 7000rpm so need to lean her out. should be a mid 30 in her and 2-3mph, she was only picking up 31mph in the back half she usually gets 33-34mph when she is all sorted. we are happy, left the line nicely.

mine goes in to GrooveRyders next week, do the intake pipe and a few other things, im pushing but not pushing if you know what i mean, i want to make sure we have all the i's dotted and t's crossed as quickly as possible without cutting corners.

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by prasac

sweet as, it's coming together that is the main thing.

we were probably in the staging lanes waiting to run, spent most of the day there, was busy Joe pumped out some good numbers in the Capri, our first time on a radial, 200lbs heavier, full exhaust, 275 radial she ran 8.53, 8.49 & 8.42, mph was down to 162mph and 1.36-1.39 60's she is fattening up after about 7000rpm so need to lean her out. should be a mid 30 in her and 2-3mph, she was only picking up 31mph in the back half she usually gets 33-34mph when she is all sorted. we are happy, left the line nicely.

mine goes in to GrooveRyders next week, do the intake pipe and a few other things, im pushing but not pushing if you know what i mean, i want to make sure we have all the i's dotted and t's crossed as quickly as possible without cutting corners.

Yeah fair enough. I know what you mean, short cuts only mean longer term pain. I am hoping to get mine into Speedfab sometime over the winter to look at some weight reduction and a new alloy dash. Should be nice when its done.

I saw the capri get one pass. It did leave the line nice, so you gotta be happy with that on radials. Track seemed good, just a very slow day. Glad I wasnt racing as I woulda been pretty frustrated. The waiting kills me lately...

[prasac]

Originally Posted by CYC06T

Yeah fair enough. I know what you mean, short cuts only mean longer term pain. I am hoping to get mine into Speedfab sometime over the winter to look at some weight reduction and a new alloy dash. Should be nice when its done.

I saw the capri get one pass. It did leave the line nice, so you gotta be happy with that on radials. Track seemed good, just a very slow day. Glad I wasnt racing as I woulda been pretty frustrated. The waiting kills me lately...

sweet as, have seen Speedfab doing a fair bit of stuff now. i had never heard of him till recently, i was actually at a wedding and his sister was sitting at our table (i started swearing in Croatian, she is Croatian also) after she told me about him i started to see stickers on cars (Scott Cousins 2J Datto), one of Vince's customers had some work done by him he does nice work.

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by prasac

sweet as, have seen Speedfab doing a fair bit of stuff now. i had never heard of him till recently, i was actually at a wedding and his sister was sitting at our table (i started swearing in Croatian, she is Croatian also) after she told me about him i started to see stickers on cars (Scott Cousins 2J Datto), one of Vince's customers had some work done by him he does nice work.

SpeedFab is two guys - Antere (the Croation one) and Backyarder (Rob). They set up the business a handful of years ago and then shut it down for a while. They are back into it now. They have done most of the fab work on my engine and do an awesome job. They are at Smithfield with a really cool workshop. Yeah, they do work on all the Rigoli cars, so Scotty (2J), Jimbo (Boostn, VL), Nelson (WRX - previously Doms car) mine etc. as well as a heap of other cars/stuff.

A very good option if you need fab work done.

[prasac]

Originally Posted by CYC06T

SpeedFab is two guys - Antere (the Croation one) and Backyarder (Rob). They set up the business a handful of years ago and then shut it down for a while. They are back into it now. They have done most of the fab work on my engine and do an awesome job. They are at Smithfield with a really cool workshop. Yeah, they do work on all the Rigoli cars, so Scotty (2J), Jimbo (Boostn, VL), Nelson (WRX - previously Doms car) mine etc. as well as a heap of other cars/stuff.

A very good option if you need fab work done.

good stuff, i get asked alot all the time for good fabricators. i have seen the fab work on those cars and it is good work.

[Giant]

Paulie do you know a good fabricator?

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by Giant

Paulie do you know a good fabricator?

He he he he he

[prasac]

yeah, but, they are all busy. a good fabricator is a busy one

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by prasac

yeah, but, they are all busy. a good fabricator is a busy one

Hey Paulie, you know anyone who does good work with Lexan?? It would be awesome if someone made pre-made windows for a falcon? Otherwise I will add it to the list for Speedfab to do.

[Giant]

He does but they are busy....

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by Giant

He does but they are busy....

Too funny bro. Let's hope they are not that busy....

[prasac]

i had GrooveRyder do my windscreen. i'm not sure who else does, i know the place he got it from was around Smithfield, Wetherill Park. there is also a place in Penrith that my brother used for his Corolla, they were reasonably priced and did a good job.

[SNB05T]

how did you go yesterday phill?

saw your car coming back from a run, didn't realise it was you mate

[prasac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X4G9mC7cdw car looks to be making more power now? she really dropped the nose on the shift of the 8.64 pass.

[CYC06T]

Yeah hey guys, went out yesterday to test out a few new things. We did some retuning during the week and have got the two step setup now as well. We also wanted to see how the new taller tyres would impact on the ratios. Unfortunately because of the recent cold snap they reduced the qualifying passes from 3 to 2 so I knew we would only have limited chances for testing. The track was pretty sticky, so even though there wasn't much temp we hoped to get a few good passes in.

First pass was just a chance to see what the track was like and for me to see how the two step works and make sure I got to the end of the track 8.69 with a really slow 1.48 60'. it was also popping a bit across the line, so we wanted to adjust the fuelling.k

We realized with the taller tyres we could feed more boost in off the line. 2nd pass, the first one in the video, the car was going better, launched a little harder and was on a mission, right up till I was ready to shift into second and everything just cut out, like we hit a boost cut or something - hence the dip in the nose. We still ran 8.64 @ 166 , so we woulda gone into the 8.5's at least - 60 was down to a more respectable 1.39. So we are on the right track. A couple of little adjustments and we were keen to get back out again.

In the end, something came loose in the pass and we went slower, so that was it for the day. Still 60' in the high 1.3's, but was considerably slower in the first half track.

Positive signs moving forward. The two step is awesome, so much better, so I am confident of going quicker moving forward.

Good to go racing aging, that was for sure. I can now also start to work more on cutting some good lights.

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by prasac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X4G9mC7cdw car looks to be making more power now? she really dropped the nose on the shift of the 8.64 pass.

Oh, and maybe a little more power

[xr6t_ute]

Bloody V8's too noisy in the youtbe clip..lol... Well done good to see it out on the track again :-)

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by xr6t_ute

Bloody V8's too noisy in the youtbe clip..lol... Well done good to see it out on the track again :-)

Ain't that the truth. I couldn't even hear if I was on full boost on the two step. Dom thought I left early so I am keen to get a clean pass. Definitely starting to go crazy not getting under 8.50 yet.

[Giant]

I love the commentators ealier in the day, was along the lines of for something that looks like a stock BA it pretty quick and ow yeah and everything is black and it looks pretty mean with that dark tint.

Yep TC rounds pretty much always have good track prep, hope to see you at future rounds.

[CYC06T]

Originally Posted by Giant

I love the commentators ealier in the day, was along the lines of for something that looks like a stock BA it pretty quick and ow yeah and everything is black and it looks pretty mean with that dark tint.

Yep TC rounds pretty much always have good track prep, hope to see you at future rounds.

It was good day. I had fun and the car went pretty well. We will up the nitrous jet size to get on boost a little quicker and I may even be able to be more competitive.

[Giant]

Thats the dream to be competitve and enjoy the buzz of racing...

[prasac]

wish coulda got out there to race or watch some racing. we decided it was time to pull the box out of the Capri.

hopefully you get it sorted, saw the car nose over i thought shiiiit that can't be good was on a good pass also

shame the racing stops now for a couple months

[FreddyDUZ747]

Originally Posted by prasac

wish coulda got out there to race or watch some racing. we decided it was time to pull the box out of the Capri.

hopefully you get it sorted, saw the car nose over i thought shiiiit that can't be good was on a good pass also

shame the racing stops now for a couple months

Come to Adelaide,we race all through winter

[Giant]

Damn it was that cold and windy I am glad its not on for a couple of months. I got runner up was some great racing in the cold windy conditions, started the day fresh was worn out by the end of it sleep like a baby.

I like the plane it was on before it dropped the nose, looks like its on track to run a good number.