drewcrane wrote:
ooohhh yea that is so much slower lol
no it isnt, that is still fast,faster than stink on poo!
Hey Drew , try tellin that to the guys on here trying to gain .03 (not 3 tenths) of a second , can take a looooong time to knock that little bit off yer ETs. , not including the extra $$$$$$$$$ it takes.
drewcrane wrote:
ooohhh yea that is so much slower lol
no it isnt, that is still fast,faster than stink on poo!
Hey Drew , try tellin that to the guys on here trying to gain .03 (not 3 tenths) of a second , can take a looooong time to knock that little bit off yer ETs. , not including the extra $$$$$$$$$ it takes.
oh yea i tried for years to knock off 2 or 3 tenths and im only doing mid13,s, i cant imagine what it takes when the times get faster,how hard it is to shave a few 100ths of a second,its very hard so when i see these times im very impressed,but as they say speed costs money ,just how fast do you want to go,and then it takes time just to figure out to drive the car that fast
OK her is a quick run-down on this weekend.
I did not want to take the Bee to the Nats without doing a few shakedown runs.
I simply did not want to spend the Nats weekend under the car again i would much rather be in the bar when Budge buys the whole club a drink on Friday night.
As Dave was having big probs with a seriously painful shoulder Al Golding agreed to help with the shakedown runs and wagged some demo runs at the Retro show today.
As Saturday was a RWYB we put in 12 hours on Friday to finish the little nasty outstanding jobs, then got up at 5 30 on Saturday morning and set off for the track.
Cav (whose wife was 2 weeks overdue) and James met us there and we set to finishing the jobs we failed to do on Friday, plugs, gearbox fluid ect we finally got to the line around 4 ish.
She stalled and required a jump but the key was with Tony alias the silver fox who was filming the run at the 1000 ft mark.
A sprint back to the pits sorted that out and just as we got her fired up again they let 2 junior gangsters out, NOOOO.
I can tell you it seemed like a lifetime waiting for them little cars to clear the track with the Bee cackling in the burnout box.
Finally Al ripped some rubber of the rear slicks staged and flew of the line running a low 10 sec run straight as an arrow.
After a lot of high fiveing we retuned to the pits to find she was puking oil from the valley pan, running as rich as a Brummie salesman and the trans temp was high.
By way of a celebration I poured a brandy and lemonade, which soon got filched.
I porky pied Adam saying we had a 9.5 but she was as rich as a Brummie salesman to Adam and within the hour Adam and Chevy john were in the pit's stripping down the carg and rejetting 6 lower to lean her out, My 9.5 rouse to Ad worked and Blue was right on the numbers.
Unfortunately Adam had drained the fuel in the carb bowls into a glass the same as my brandy and lemonade.
I thought oh there is my drink and promptly swigged a mouthful of 116 octane race fuel.
Actually it was not that bad but it definitely needed some lemonade.
Cav dived in and had the top end out in no time ignoring us when we said you had better get home to her indoors in case anything happened.
Na! he refused until he had the top off the engine and had cleaned the pan and intake maniofold, he finally left in the dark.
we resealed the valley pan and left it overnight sleeping in the truck.
The next morning we had the engine back together in time to run at 12ish.
Al said we need a fan on the gearbox cooling rad I said there is one and a flick of the switch sorted out the gearbox cooling issues.
The next run we found she was not pulling 3rd gear and we found the trans shield belt was bearing on the shifter end and a few adjustments soon had her running all three gears.
On her next run she pulled all gears and ran a lower 10.
Back in the pits she was all good no leaks a couple of washers got the oil pressure back to 80 on the revs and there was nothing to do but re fuel and charge batteries sorted.
The last run was 10.01 puling hard through all the gears.
As a footnote I rang Cav to report on the day and started to discuss the wiring got to go he said lindsey has started to have the baby
An hour later he phoned to say they had a baby boy.
Congratulations to them both.
A perfect end to a perfect day.
Amen
yep great report bob well done all involved spec cav and wife congrats,
main thing i see from all this is obv you boys are from some sort of institution and are allowed out only to do car related activities, but i think they should send a full time career with you as your ALL not safe on your own, and never fail to have a cockup of some description, drinkin 116
The old Lardy Bee looks the business Bob, well done you lot that is what I call a real result after all that hard work...now don't break it between now and the Nats!
The pump don’t work coz the vandals took the handles.
Really well done to you all bob.Is that the Ray White that ran an orangey/yelow mark 1 years ago???? If it is,he must be as rich as a Cheshire gearbox builder,never mind the Brummies..
, not including the extra $$$$$$$$$ it takes.
