djtimo Posted July 31, 2011 Share Posted July 31, 2011 Guys today was great! Great weather and had such a good time. Andy J was not able to make it as it was his birthday Ill have to let him off! (happy Birthday mate! lol_) Soooo I was team **REMOVED** all on my own ......Me and Jess left our house at 7:30am got to Elvington for about 9:30ish and got signed on. While I was queuing up for the sign on I got chatting to a guy behind me who ended up owning a V8 200SX I've seen in magazines and at TOTB last year! We had a great chat and being a fellow nissan owner invited me to come and set up in the pits with the SXOC team! After signing on I had to get the car through the scrutineering, that was going to be fun! I dropped the car in the tech inspection area and 5 or 6 guys jumped all over it! lol.. The cheked wheels nuts, tires, under the bonnet, seat belts, you name it they checked it! Anyway it passed! ha... Next was the noise test! I had spoken to Dave Naxon about the fact it may not pass and he said he would get it through, the guy asked for 4K rpm to start with and he got a 99.1 dB reading! great, he asked for a 4.5K and got well over the 106dB limit so said "we will stick to the 4K reading then hey!" lol.... We had the driver briefing at 10:30am and the explained how the day would run, what class the cars would run in etc. I ran the Zed in RWD class B. Here's a few pic's taken off my phone. The driver brief on the starting line. The zed wearing its race number! Some of the cars that were running during the day! Scudder from the SXOC' super charged LS2 V8 Beast! The inside of the white R35 GT-R! Few more of the Zed! Jess and the zed cooling down! lol.. Few more shots of different cars that were there. Fully nismo built RB26 The BORG built by RIPS in new zealand. 500BHP GT35 Turbo top speed bike! Nicely built motor! Now for the results: I went for the standing 1K first! Runs: 1, 126.0mph just learning the track. 2, 153.0mph 3, 144.3mph 4, 154.7mph 5, 155.4mph << 6, 155.2mph 1/4 mile, I did not go for any records as I don't want to kill my clutch and the surface is not anywhere near as good a santa pod so ill save the 1/4 records for the drag strip! Runs: 1, 13.51@116mph 2.45 60ft 2, 13.07@116mph 2.31 60ft 3, 13.07@118mph 2.42 60ft 4, 13.06@117mph 2.43 60ft 5, 12.82@118mph 2.27 60ft << Handling circuit, never going to win this when the Dax rush with a cosworth turbo motors in my class! lol.. Runs: 1, 47.38sec 2, 46.92sec 3, 46.49sec<< Only had 3 runs on the handling circuit as it was busy and very hard on the brakes as there was no space to cool down etc. Im sure I could have dropped another 1sec off at least as some of the team SXOC guys had 10-12 runs and went from 50+ sec down to 42sec region! Also Very hard to put the power down! hahaha... Over all standings were: 2nd in the standing 1K in the RWD class, 5th in the 1/4 mile, and 11th in the handling!! Made up with the results as the only guy to beat me in the standing 1k was scudder from the SXOC in the 600+ WHP supercharged LS2 200sx! Few video's from the event! The handling circuit. Some in-car standing K runs! 0-159MPH Run Great event! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter10 Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Looked like good fun. Some cracking cars there too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Some very nice cars. Is the yellow R34 actually Abby's or was just a sponsored car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted August 1, 2011 Author Share Posted August 1, 2011 Some very nice cars. Is the yellow R34 actually Abby's or was just a sponsored car? A guy calld Jeff Ludgate owns this car, Im not sure if he's sponsored by abbey but will have had work done by them on the car most likely. Was a great event and would be nice to see a few more zed's there nexrt year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronzee Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Some very nice cars. Is the yellow R34 actually Abby's or was just a sponsored car? A guy calld Jeff Ludgate owns this car, Im not sure if he's sponsored by abbey but will have had work done by them on the car most likely. Was a great event and would be nice to see a few more zed's there nexrt year! Looks very cool. Must be sponsored to some degree surely, to be running a their sticker on the panels. The BORG built by RIPS in new zealand. How the heck did I miss this one yesterday. Robbie's team build totally wild cars. I've posted a few of his cars on here before. The 240z shelled one and the other red drag car, have been to our meets. http://www.ripsltd.com/index2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilscorp Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 nice videos, liked the sideways action you were getting on the handling course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docwra Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Haha! Ive driven Ken's Supercharged S14, its quite funny once you get grip Good work, the SXOC boys ended up 3rd and 4th in class and actually beat one of the DAX's and a couple of Caterhams - both were in daily driven cars with full interiors! Ill be up next year if it doesnt clash again, looked like a good weekend. BTW the XF got a 13.57 on the 1/4 mile, we might run that next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT4 Zed Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Nice vids and pics Fun day out on all accounts We look out for this next year and get time off to give it a go Well done mate and thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brataccas Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 very nice vids, shame about the music added though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Mcgoo Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Only just been able to watch the videos due to being blocked at work. Congrats on the results and flying the flag for the 350z. That last video of the speedo is awesome!!! Well done Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steady Zeddy Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 great vids - the 0-160 was particularly impressive - that looked like 0-100 in under 10 secs (supercar + quick). What tyres were you running? - looked like they let down your handling run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted August 10, 2011 Author Share Posted August 10, 2011 great vids - the 0-160 was particularly impressive - that looked like 0-100 in under 10 secs (supercar + quick). What tyres were you running? - looked like they let down your handling run. Yeah mate the rear tires are pants there only crap falkens as my R888's did not have enough tread on them! lol.. The 0-160 run was fun mate, the car wheel spins badly in 1st 2nd so I would like to think if i could go full throttle in 1st 2nd the car should do 0-100 in the 8sec range! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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