XR8888 - car 1st run down the 1/4

[aps]

Originally Posted by rodderz

Everyone who has been to your shop Peter has had no dramas whatsoever that i've heard of....

Maybe I better borrow those nitto's again and see if i can get into the 12's with 106mph!!
: : :

Now that would be a hoot to see rodderz, the first manual XR8 ute into the 12's, let's get to it! :evil3:

Peter

[X ORSMXR]

Originally Posted by XRFPV8

of coarse you can only ran a pb once ...if you beat it, its longer a PB.
my time was done with a rev limiter, does a street car have its rev limiter removed?
Not interested in any more nit picking... we will leave it to the track..

no worries Mark will line you up in a couple off weeks buddy you can have your stripped car and your nittos me not scared LOL

[rodderz]

I'll be lucky if i get 12's.... i only hope to improve by a tad!

Wonder who will be 1st na XR8 boss into the 12's though! Will be a big benchmark to set!

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by ORSMXR

no worries Mark will line you up in a couple off weeks buddy you can have your stripped car and your nittos me not scared LOL

Can you tell me what i strip?
Have you got nitto's for me ?

[X ORSMXR]

oh sorry mark no need to get your feathers in a knot just revin you up buddy.

See you at Heathcote in April you are racing the purple monster arn't you

[Xtreme F6]

Originally Posted by ORSMXR

no worries Mark will line you up in a couple off weeks buddy you can have your stripped car and your nittos me not scared LOL

Mate its very hard to get to the bottom of this variation in draging a car.. Thats hwy classes and regulations where made. Your points are very valid. Good on ya for saying what you think.

I think if we are going to quote true street cars headlights should be in, air filters should be in ect ect.. But end of the day, ppl invest alot of money supporting ppl and wanting to take records. If this means changing tyres, running race fuel, removing headlights, removing cats then its going to happen... The list goes on.

I think if your going to try and get ppl to take this list serious you need to stipulate some ground rules so ppl actualy have guidelines that they know the bounderies of.

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by ORSMXR

oh sorry mark no need to get your feathers in a knot just revin you up buddy.

See you at Heathcote in April you are racing the purple monster arn't you

AHH Chris i will murder you...good on yah mate : .. :Reverend:
I hope we all go Faster..
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Lets give Brad his thread back....he did 13.42@ 104.5 mph

[X ORSMXR]

Any magical Ofr secrets that will be reveiled in April

[X ORSMXR]

What diff gears are in you car now mark ,and your best time with the 3000e

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by ORSMXR

Any magical Ofr secrets that will be reveiled in April

Yes i must empty the catch can in the Monza before Rod runs down the Quarter... : :gren:

Originally Posted by ORSMXR

What diff gears are in you car now mark ,and your best time with the 3000e

My Diff is 4.11 Dont you read the forums, did a spread at the old place on them.
Thanked Bill, thats Chris's Dad he done a A1 job, if you are doing gears get him to do it...
with my 3.45's best was 13.80, xede chip, no underdrives, sp3000s,ofr spacer,full zorst, cai, Rob Herrod tune.
Chris we can talk or start another thread, this thread belongs to Brad.

[X ORSMXR]

Sorry Brad You Can Have Youre Thread Back Now

[WASP]

I just want to see a BA Ford V8 do great times. Don't care how it's done or what people use. If it makes it faster then use it. It's all in good fun hey fella's.

[GT 8888]

Originally Posted by ORSMXR

Sorry Brad You Can Have Youre Thread Back Now

Couldn't give a rats toss bag about the thread to be honest...all I did was post what happened on the night ...took wife and 2 kids up and all the gear...did a run on sp9000's with 14.4..changed to Nittos, both 13.4's....I'll leave it up to the experts as to whats street and whats not.

Be no times in my signature until it's me going down the black stuff.

Cheers

Brad

[Xtreme F6]

Originally Posted by xr8888

Couldn't give a rats toss bag about the thread to be honest...all I did was post what happened on the night ...took wife and 2 kids up and all the gear...did a run on sp9000's with 14.4..changed to Nittos, both 13.4's....I'll leave it up to the experts as to whats street and whats not.

Be no times in my signature until it's me going down the black stuff.

Cheers

Brad

WELL Done Brad, Shows the importance of good rubber i say. WHat tyre pressures did u run again?

[GT 8888]

Originally Posted by GTP-330

WELL Done Brad, Shows the importance of good rubber i say. WHat tyre pressures did u run again?

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[Xtreme F6]

Originally Posted by xr8888

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do u know what sizes they come in?

[GT 8888]

Originally Posted by GTP-330

do u know what sizes they come in?

Don't know the whole range...we had 245x45x17....

Will be finding out tomorrow (checks watch ...yep still today!!) if I can get some...the guy who did my unichip and exhaust can source them somehow and he will let me know.

I'll PM you if I find out something.

Brad

[Xtreme F6]

Originally Posted by xr8888

Don't know the whole range...we had 245x45x17....

Will be finding out tomorrow (checks watch ...yep still today!!) if I can get some...the guy who did my unichip and exhaust can source them somehow and he will let me know.

I'll PM you if I find out something.

Brad

thanks mate (stoopid 20 characters)

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by CDAA

I just want to see a BA Ford V8 do great times. Don't care how it's done or what people use. If it makes it faster then use it. It's all in good fun hey fella's.

Hi Colville, Totally agree we race for FUN not for a sheep station.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Rod

Congratulations Brad
very well done, let us know what you give it a run yourself

dont worry about the knockers they come from everywere, just check your PM's i bet you have a few in there asking questions of how you acchived it but in the open they hurl to you know what

just remember there is two different type of people in this world those that can do it & those that talk about doing it

well done
regards
rod

Has somebody here bagged Brads achievement? I hope not, as facts are facts, and the timeslips dont lie.

I merely stated earlier that I wouldn't drive a car on the street with 18psi in the tyres.

For all the people who whould like to know what street trim is, look in your driveway.

For all the people who say they run there cars to the track with lights missing, circuit slicks, no cats, pipes off, race fuel, etc etc things will be fine until

1 - you end up on a wet and twisty road somewhere
2 - you meet a member of a law enforcement agency
3 - you run into your car insurance broker
etc etc

so you end up off the road into a tree with circuit slicks on in the wet, you do realise that your rating one will disappear, along with your policy.

I build street and drag engines every day. Customers are forever asking me what ET there car is capable of. it is almost impossible to guarantee ET, as where do you stop with the "extras" such as headlights, etc. Always quote low, the customer will always be happy.

mph is a different story. a mate I built a turbo supra engine for ran a 12.6 at heathcote at 145mph WITH STREET TYRES (no, not nitto's)

I dont remember anyone bagging Brads achievement - maybe its my fault for not starting another thread regarding what is street trim, etc. But after having raced around the country since i was 18, and having crewed and built the engines for cars totalling over 12 gold andra christmas trees I think I know a little about the sport.

Ask Alex FPVGT about his "other" car. (yeah, the one that runs 12's in STREET trim) There was a link to its run at calder - driving skill played a part here.

Brad has run a fast number in his BA, no doubt. And for that, I shake his hand, I dont need to PM him, i will congratulate him here in the open.

For the people that want to run street trim, run street trim.

Im lucky - my car doesnt have traction problems (wet or dry, sob!) but I am planning on having them real soon. I am looking at some racing tyres today, so when I run the car with racing tyres, you wont hear me quote street trim,

because it isn't. my street trim ET will be the one I quote with the dunlops.

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by Chris

Has somebody here bagged Brads achievement? I hope not, as facts are facts, and the timeslips dont lie.

I merely stated earlier that I wouldn't drive a car on the street with 18psi in the tyres.

For all the people who whould like to know what street trim is, look in your driveway.

For all the people who say they run there cars to the track with lights missing, circuit slicks, no cats, pipes off, race fuel, etc etc things will be fine until

1 - you end up on a wet and twisty road somewhere
2 - you meet a member of a law enforcement agency
3 - you run into your car insurance broker
etc etc

so you end up off the road into a tree with circuit slicks on in the wet, you do realise that your rating one will disappear, along with your policy.

I build street and drag engines every day. Customers are forever asking me what ET there car is capable of. it is almost impossible to guarantee ET, as where do you stop with the "extras" such as headlights, etc. Always quote low, the customer will always be happy.

mph is a different story. a mate I built a turbo supra engine for ran a 12.6 at heathcote at 145mph WITH STREET TYRES (no, not nitto's)

I dont remember anyone bagging Brads achievement - maybe its my fault for not starting another thread regarding what is street trim, etc. But after having raced around the country since i was 18, and having crewed and built the engines for cars totalling over 12 gold andra christmas trees I think I know a little about the sport.

Ask Alex FPVGT about his "other" car. (yeah, the one that runs 12's in STREET trim) There was a link to its run at calder - driving skill played a part here.

Brad has run a fast number in his BA, no doubt. And for that, I shake his hand, I dont need to PM him, i will congratulate him here in the open.

For the people that want to run street trim, run street trim.

Im lucky - my car doesnt have traction problems (wet or dry, sob!) but I am planning on having them real soon. I am looking at some racing tyres today, so when I run the car with racing tyres, you wont hear me quote street trim,

because it isn't. my street trim ET will be the one I quote with the dunlops.

Chris I didn’t know Rod was saying that to you.
Does your business depend on our cars times?
Don’t talk about Dunlop’s you only rang me up yesterday asking if you can use my re-molded street rubber because you wanted to use them on your Ute..
Enough talk a about who should run what, and what we should be running stick to what you know… worry about what you are doing, not what others are doing.
Go do a descent number yourself, then sell your products on your cars back.
This Forum isn’t here to sell or promote sales for you.
We race for fun, end of story.

[XA-Coupe]

I think we all better get back on track. No more 'discussions' in this thread except about brad's times thanks!!

[Chris]

Originally Posted by XRFPV8

Chris I didn’t know Rod was saying that to you.
Does your business depend on our cars times?
Don’t talk about Dunlop’s you only rang me up yesterday asking if you can use my re-molded street rubber because you wanted to use them on your Ute..
Enough talk a about who should run what, and what we should be running stick to what you know… worry about what you are doing, not what others are doing.
Go do a descent number yourself, then sell your products on your cars back.
This Forum isn’t here to sell or promote sales for you.
We race for fun, end of story.

Good on you Mark, learning to moderate I see. PM sent.

[Xtreme F6]

Originally Posted by XA Coupe

I think we all better get back on track. No more 'discussions' in this thread except about brad's times thanks!!

XA Coupe, WHat Chris has just said is what i was trying to say ... if you guys want to run a list you have to have some ground rules to your list.

Can you start another thread with that in mind? I agree with Chris's last post. Was some valid points

[XA-Coupe]

GTP-330 .. this thread is for discussion of Brad's time only . Feel free to start another thread to discuss ground rules.
Anything not relevant to Brad's run from here gets deleted.

[MaD_KiWi]

Well done Brad, congrats.

Personally all PB's should be backed up at least twice, three times to be consistent, no one hit wonders especially with some timing errors i have seen in the past

Simon

[PhantomXR8]

Guys,
Ya know, there's one thing that this type of talk does and that's fire up everyone. It brings the best out of everyone, me included. I was a novice only 2 months ago, people like Mark and the 2 Rods have inspired me to have the quickest N/A BA XR8. I'm trying from an CAPA edit perspective. Lets bring it on, lets leave the speaking to your feet and back tyres.....and the engine. I almost forgot, Brad top effort..... It's amazing how close all of these BA XR8s are, we're talking tenths of a second here.

[GT-P 738]

Originally Posted by PhantomXR8

Guys,
Ya know, there's one thing that this type of talk does and that's fire up everyone. It brings the best out of everyone, me included. I was a novice only 2 months ago, people like Mark and the 2 Rods have inspired me to have the quickest N/A BA XR8. I'm trying from an CAPA edit perspective. Lets bring it on, lets leave the speaking to your feet and back tyres.....and the engine. I almost forgot, Brad top effort..... It's amazing how close all of these BA XR8s are, we're talking tenths of a second here.

Yeah well said,we don't want dyno queens we want ET,and good ones at that.My aim now is to get the GT-P into the twelves in street trim and unopened engine etc.

BRING IT ON : : : :

[Xtreme F6]

Originally Posted by GT-P 738

Yeah well said,we don't want dyno queens we want ET,and good ones at that.My aim now is to get the GT-P into the twelves in street trim and unopened engine etc.

BRING IT ON : : : :

My aim mate is to have your GTP and mine do a side by side 12 second pass :P : :

[XA-Coupe]

My aim would be able to afford to get to the 12s