Been racing the VP tonight

[greenfoam]

I went to the drags tonight 1/8th mile. I was heaps happy with how it turned out, I ran several 9.3 second passes at above 75 mph, I didnt even bother racing other 5 litres that were there later in the night because I could just rip them off and line and then pull away so easy. So I had a run against a VY SS with a zoorst he got a *slightly* better time than me but I still beat him off the lights and won the race fairly easy, I drove past him on the shift to 2nd to. That made my day.

I met VQ Rat too, hes a nice guy so that was good and my mates Silvia that we tuned last night smashed it's PB, old was 9.1 and it ran a 8.6 tonight and was perhaps the fastest daily driven car there tonight (it gets driven 200ks to tafe and back almsot every day). I got beat by a like 600 hp Torana:P and a VB/C? that had a fair chunck of power too. And a supercharged VX SS beat me too. Apart from that I won all the races I had

[ephect]

damn thats a good time.. is it just in the tune? or is there something u been doin to her, that we dont know about yet?

[greenfoam]

Pretty much just the tune and a little bit of excess fat removal. But yeah the old beast was pretty strong tonight. I'm confidant it would have pulled a 14.5 1/4 mile on any of those 9.3 runs if the track was longer. I've never heard of a VN/P with a stock exhaust doing that kind of time so It's good. I knew it was going to be fast because after I changed the oil (massive gains in power from the oil change today) and pulled the air con pump off I had a little gtech out the front and it ran a 5.76 to 60mph which is the fastest it's ever gone and that was just before I left to go to the drags

[azkwazere]

Good news man!

thats great to hear!

been folowing your progress with ya cars and im happy as that you ran those times! awsome work dude!

aZK.

[Matt_vp]

well done mate
Matt

[PaRaDoX]

go foam! when we race it shall be a good match!

[AirStrike]

Pretty much just the tune and a little bit of excess fat removal. But yeah the old beast was pretty strong tonight. I'm confidant it would have pulled a 14.5 1/4 mile on any of those 9.3 runs if the track was longer. I've never heard of a VN/P with a stock exhaust doing that kind of time so It's good. I knew it was going to be fast because after I changed the oil (massive gains in power from the oil change today) and pulled the air con pump off I had a little gtech out the front and it ran a 5.76 to 60mph which is the fastest it's ever gone and that was just before I left to go to the drags

No one has done that time with a VN/VP with a stock exhaust because no one runs a stock exhaust Good to hear you made it to your goal mate.

[vq rat]

It was agood night man pity there was not a lot of cars next month the hamilton lads will make a good show and good to put a face to a name too look out of the white vn its sick

[nathans1987]

you need to go to a 1/4 mile the time sounds good for that speed, you must have got off cleanly. what was the exact speed?

[greenfoam]

you need to go to a 1/4 mile the time sounds good for that speed, you must have got off cleanly. what was the exact speed?

My best 60 foot was 2.153 and mph was 75.50 mph, I think I got full traction on the 9.3s but I may have turned a tyre a bit, it was a hard to tell really. I did have quite a few runs that I lost traction on and one run was pretty full on wheelspin into 2nd

[SICK SS]

how come you were only racing 1/8 mile?

[greenfoam]

Nearly all or all the tracks in the country are 1/8th mile. It costs ALOT of money to build a 1/4 mile track and not many drag racing clubs (none?) that are not owned by a big company can do it. It doesnt really matter anyway nothing happens after the first 1/8th mile, the rest is just driving down the road and waiting for a time that you allready know based on the first half a track

[Andy68]

great times bud ya gotta be happy with that...good luck in the future...Andy

[SICK SS]

just looking at my time slips best of 14.2 but there was no 660 time the rest of the runs went from from 9.4 to 9.6 i realy dont no how you are working out ur 1/4 times with out actualy runing down the full lenght track

[greenfoam]

There's tables and calculations to to work it out from the weight and power, I allready knew my car would run a 9.4 1/8th and 14.6 1/4 mile a year ago before I removed some weight from the car so it's no big suprise for me. I'm 100% sure it would run between 14.50 and 14.59 on the 1/4 mile.

I know it wouldn't run a 14.2 like your car because I don't have that amount of top end power and I'd need a bigger exhaust and extractors on it to match that 14.2 but I'd be a car or two in front at the half way point

[88GreenVN]

Are these times on good tryes? What size? I just wana know thats all.

[greenfoam]

I came across some super sticky remoulds for $70 each at my local tyre shop, they are 215's. Since rear tyres only last a few thousand ks on my VP, that's what I've been running. Next time I have some spare cash I'm going to buy 4 or 6 of them in 225's and wrap them up in plastic for later.. Before they stop making them just how they are now because they really are very sticky

[Boonz]

whats the brand of them??? one of my mates from tradeschool worked at beaurepairs and he had some heaps cheap and sticky tires.... after a 5 minute drive the rocks in the carpark started to stick the tread it was crazy!

[88GreenVN]

I came across some super sticky remoulds for $70 each at my local tyre shop, they are 215's. Since rear tyres only last a few thousand ks on my VP, that's what I've been running. Next time I have some spare cash I'm going to buy 4 or 6 of them in 225's and wrap them up in plastic for later.. Before they stop making them just how they are now because they really are very sticky

Like this 215/60. Ive had it in the shed for ages and put it on the other day after a flat. (side wall damage to a good trye) It grips OK - so I'm a remould convert for a while anyway.

[greenfoam]

The ones on mine are called HIGHWAY with "Max" written in a radical style under the HIGHWAY, they have a different tread than your picture 88GreenVN, bit more complex tread. I'll get a picture of them later and post it in here

[88GreenVN]

I only have one remould but with the new SV 3800 tune & CAI it may just spin the wheels yet (with the remould on)

[greenfoam]

I dont think a V6 would spin the ones I have even in a massive downpour of rain, my VP can still run 6 flat to 60 mph with them in the middle of a storm

[AirStrike]

I dont think a V6 would spin the ones I have even in a massive downpour of rain, my VP can still run 6 flat to 60 mph with them in the middle of a storm

Let AGRSSV with her new gears give them a spin

[greenfoam]

You bring AGRSSV here and film it getting beat by a VP with a Mcdonalds thick shake straw for a exhaust :P

[AirStrike]

You bring AGRSSV here and film it getting beat by a VP with a Mcdonalds thick shake straw for a exhaust :P

OOOOOOOO I don't know about that
Next week it's all happening mate.............plenty of new parts.