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Epic Suprapod road trip weekend


Clarkie

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Travelled down to Suprapod this weekend from Aberdeen with a few folk off the mkivsupra.net forum this weekend. Decided to head down a day early and get the car tuned at RSTuning in Leeds.

 

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Turns out the engine was running very lean which has now been rectified and she is driving so much better now, it's like driving a different car. In the end she reached 272 HP with 252 Ftlb.

 

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So we left Leeds with enough electronics to succesfully sink a ship and still managed to get lost several time thanks to co-pilot being a numpty

 

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After our rendezvous with the Supra guys at a service station we made it to the hotel in Wellingborough.

 

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Headed to Supra Racing Designs for a BBQ on the Friday, what an amazing place. Can't help but be impressed with some of the cars these guys are working on!

 

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After a quiet Friday night...

 

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It was off to Santa Pod for the event, now i could upload a few thousand pictures of Supras here, but be thankful i won't. Instead here's a link to pics for those that are interested - http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread ... deo-thread

 

Grabbed a spot of lunch

 

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So what else is there to do when you're at a drag strip with a RWYB event going on :D

 

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Drag racing has to be the most fun ever. Raced against a bunch of NA Supras and thankfully beat them. Sadly the TT ones were a wee bit faster and the 1200bhp ones were just ridiculous!

 

My best 1/4 mile time was 14.4229 @ 99.28mph

 

I did take a wee trip to Zedfest on the Sunday with another forum member (Blackie who has some more pics) but we turned up at 1pm and everyone had left... so chatted to a few guys for ten mins and headed back!

 

And just as the trip had started a horrendously long drive home. Thankfully cruise control came into its own here!

 

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Wee pit stop in Dundee to sort a flappy splitter

 

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A huge thanks goes to Ailsa, our official Team Beard photographer. I think you'll agree with me that she takes a good picture

 

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And as per usual my navigator was being rubbish

 

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Amazing weekend overall. Made a heap of new friends and had far too much fun in the Zed! Roll on next year :D

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Looks great I really really want to go to suprapod but felt bad asking if i could come in the zed! Do you own a sup as well?? Ive sen the vid's of Jamie sup that is just fast as hell! Shame he didnt do 160mph trap to shut the US supra forums up about his pump fuel power! loll...

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Loved the drag race vid, thought the Supra had stalled it for a second there!

 

Would love to do some drag racing, once me got a new job and have some spare cash will invest in a revup and be heading over to Santa Pod...maybe!

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Shame you didn't come over, we had our wasp swatting guys in action keeping us safe. Did you guys have the black zed? Jamie's Supra was amazing, first car i drove against! I actually beat him too, but he was having problems... i still beat him though yeah?

 

Not sure if these vids will work but if they do here's me beating Jamie :D

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=896514012181

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=896518732721

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Shame you didn't come over, we had our wasp swatting guys in action keeping us safe. Did you guys have the black zed? Jamie's Supra was amazing, first car i drove against! I actually beat him too, but he was having problems... i still beat him though yeah?

 

Not sure if these vids will work but if they do here's me beating Jamie :D

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=896514012181

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=896518732721

 

We did see guys with yellow bats whacking them lol

 

Yep, black zed is mine, liquid yellow supra is Mike's. Definitely want to drag next time. Few of the guys killed their clutches and I think a gearbox went too, especially the FTO that spat it innerds all over the strip! Jamie had a few issues that day, think his best run was 10.1, although the young guy with the blue drag supra (can't remember his name) got into the 8s I think. A few people stalled when they'd had the glue sprayed in front as.the cars just bedded in, its soooo sticky lol

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Shame you didn't come over, we had our wasp swatting guys in action keeping us safe. Did you guys have the black zed? Jamie's Supra was amazing, first car i drove against! I actually beat him too, but he was having problems... i still beat him though yeah?

 

Not sure if these vids will work but if they do here's me beating Jamie :D

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=896514012181

 

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=896518732721

 

We did see guys with yellow bats whacking them lol

 

Yep, black zed is mine, liquid yellow supra is Mike's. Definitely want to drag next time. Few of the guys killed their clutches and I think a gearbox went too, especially the FTO that spat it innerds all over the strip! Jamie had a few issues that day, think his best run was 10.1, although the young guy with the blue drag supra (can't remember his name) got into the 8s I think. A few people stalled when they'd had the glue sprayed in front as.the cars just bedded in, its soooo sticky lol

 

The blue drag Supra(something like 1300bhp) belongs to a friend of mine StuartW, our Devon boy B)

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