Red Devil mkII - The Journey Continues

[seangti]

[Paazuzu]

Looks awesome!

[jasn78]

Sean how did last night go??

[seangti]

Sean how did last night go??

haha, damn, knew I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Nah, I suck, can't drive in a straight. Best was the first run of the night that I bogged the launch, had a second dig of the clutch and got a 14.308 @ 166kph. My 60ft times were all awful at 2.5-2.6sec, worse of 2.659. I had 5 runs, slowest was a 14.5, with a best 60ft at 2.45sec... so not good. I felt I had good traction in 2nd gear, but obviosuly not so. I ignored the lights going out, so reaction time was like 1sec, so cant' blame rushing it either.

Given I had little expectations of myself, I have little to be disappointed about. I did enjoy it more than I expected to. Certainly appreciate the difficulty in getting the car off the line, god knows how you and Anthony did that so much cleaner than I could achieve. Perhaps should have done burnouts at the start to get tyre temp

[jasn78]

Dont worry about burnouts mate

[vwthunder]

Found one of my old time slips

14.303@104.21 which is 167.7kph 60ft was 2.38

Oh that was spinning one wheel all the way through 2nd up to about 100kph

Im sure your car has a lot more potential

I find the more power in my polo the slower i go due to traction

[Lito]

Found one of my old time slips

14.303@104.21 which is 167.7kph 60ft was 2.38

Oh that was spinning one wheel all the way through 2nd up to about 100kph

Im sure your car has a lot more potential

I find the more power in my polo the slower i go due to traction

A diff would fix that

[seangti]

A diff would fix that

Group buy on LSD's??

I've got happy laps this weekend and planning for timeattack the following, depending on how that goes I'll potentially pull some power (timing) from it for the time being and look at LSD options, or just settle with less power. Have only been able to find Guy Harding with an idea about LSD's and the polo's, though he recommends a plate style diff which is around the $4k. I'm aware of the draw backs of the others, though comfortable a wavetrac (or similar) will suffice, but yet to price it.

Interestingly, my speed at the 1/8mile was marginally higher than cars running mid 13's. eg. Golf R ran a 13.9s @ 171kph, 122kph at 1/8, I ran a 14.495 @ 163kph, and 130 at 1/8. Another run, Golf R did a 13.7 @ 170kph, at 1/8 he was travelling 128kph, I did the 14.3 @ 166kph, but was travel 132kph at 1/8. The Golf R was manual. Perhaps I'm just really bad at launching it cos once it's going, it really goes.

[jasn78]

Sean it is all in the launch
The way I did it and this is why you cannot run a standard clutch for drags.
1. Dial in about 1800rpm
2. Engage hand brake
3. Release clutch till bites
4. At the same point release hand brake
5. Balance throttle clutcj amd hand brake against each other to avoid wheel spin in first 60 feet.
6. Dont rev out to anythi g over 6 grand on gear changes

[VWindahouse]

haha, damn, knew I shouldn't have mentioned it.

Nah, I suck, can't drive in a straight. Best was the first run of the night that I bogged the launch, had a second dig of the clutch and got a 14.308 @ 166kph. My 60ft times were all awful at 2.5-2.6sec, worse of 2.659. I had 5 runs, slowest was a 14.5, with a best 60ft at 2.45sec... so not good. I felt I had good traction in 2nd gear, but obviosuly not so. I ignored the lights going out, so reaction time was like 1sec, so cant' blame rushing it either.

Given I had little expectations of myself, I have little to be disappointed about. I did enjoy it more than I expected to. Certainly appreciate the difficulty in getting the car off the line, god knows how you and Anthony did that so much cleaner than I could achieve. Perhaps should have done burnouts at the start to get tyre temp

Nice work mate, great 1st effort! Especially considering you've only had the car for a couple of months v's my 7 years of getting used to the set up

Just wondering what tyre pressures you ran with?