Todays PVW Thrash Day at Bruntingthorpe...

[J@mes]

I was invited down by Performance VW mag to join them at Bruntingthorpe Air Strip to do a bit of a thrash day!

I had a wicked day!


Very early start and feel shattered now!


There were 13 of us in total

If anyone has this months PVW mag or any other with a thrash day in they will see what its about!


I got first blood and the timing gear was put in my car…The track was damp in places but not too bad tbh.

I only got the one session with the timing gear unfortunately but I did…

0-60 in 6.2
0-100 cant remember lol
¼ mile in either 14.4 or 14.7 lol
and top speed was 152.7mph


right, firstly one thing… I didn’t expect the airfield tarmac to be as bad as what it is! it certainly doesn’t compare to POD where I got 13.8 last time!


0-60 was sooo hard… I only did a few attempts… basically due to crap traction I struggled to get the power down and was spinning in 1st, 2nd and 3rd and could only get 6.2. So I got someone to sit in with me to see if it would help and it did a lot! But ironically I still got 6.2 seconds to 60mph! doh! (If it was at pod Im sure I could brake into the 5s!)

last excuse re 0 – 60 is that I was always under the impression that I could hit 62mph in 2nd gear and thus for 90% of the runs I just let it hit the limiter in 2nd to make sure I was goin over 60mph… but what did I notice when I looked at the timing equipment…. The fcuking limiter is at 59. something mph in my car! :cry; so having to change to 3rd to hit 60mph doesn’t help the LCR time! :-(

EDIT: excuse number 104… I literally had over ¾ of a tank in the car! doh!

¼ mile excuse lol… again traction… done a proven 13.8 at pod so all good!



top speed… now this I enjoyed lol.

I had 2 attempts at this… first one was immediately after all my launches for 0-60 etc and as a result as I was gaining speed, 120, 130, 140 etc etc I could feel the engine was heat soaked quite badly and I was approaching the end of the straight and thought sh*t better brake! On that attempt I hit 152.3mph

I then did a cool down lap and ran again… this time when I hit about 120mph I trimmed the boost back slightly on the jabba boost controller so that the engine wouldnt get quite so hot… I think this sort of worked… but I also had the bottle to brake a bit later this time, and I hit 152.7mph

Interestingly both times on the speedo the needle got to bang on the 160mph mark… so that’s not too bad! Means my speedo is out 5% at the top end. (one guy with golf was right off the clock but only hit 140mph... shows how all cars are different!)

I would say if the straight was longer I could have prob hit about 155mph (I have had the needle slightly past where the 160 mark is, about where 165 would be) so I guess a true 155mph is possible?!

Also looking at the hall of fame section in PVW I see once upon a time Bill did a 151.9mph run and also a 159.6mph run in his IHI Ibiza (stripped?!). So I guess my time isn’t bad! :whistle; (Elliott and Si were impressed for a k04! )


Right enough about me lol... the other cars…

Some very impressive results…

Ashley (whos in this months polo thrash in the PVW mag) improved his 0-60 time big time! He has IHI mrk3 polo stripped out on slicks and he did a 4.8 0-60!

Other quick 0 – 60s were 3.7 buy the twin engine mk3 golf and 4.2 but a 3litre VR6 turbo mk2 golf (4WD!)

Also the twin engine golf did a 177.5mph top speed run followed very closely by James from jabbasport with his 1.8T mk 2 golf… 177.4 mph!

Next time il have to strip my car completely and get some racing slicks like the others! lol



some pics...

Jabbasports/James' 177mph 1.8 T MK2 Golf!

mental twin engined big dub!

So all in a wicked day!

Elliott and Simon will be in contact with me and hopefully I will be organising a scn thrash day for the beginning of the new year!

fingers crossed!


over and out!

 

[Scotty_b]

Nice one fella. Did you tell them you had a boost leak too! hehe

 

[ice maiden]

lol....all the updates during the day......u were like a kid at christmas.......

glad u had a great day !!!

 

[J@mes]

thanks guys!


bring on pod... i want to get even lower 13s this week!

 

[gazjones]

cool looks like a good day petty you have to change into 3rd to get 60 mph think mine will get to 60 in second speedo says 68, waht was your speedo saying at the limiter in 2nd, looked like a cool day out though mate!

 

[smoothuk]

Glad ya had a good day buddy

 

[acidstrato]

surprised no-ones asked this...but why you?

dont mean to sound rude like, i mean well done figures aint bad, i know how crap brunts is compared to other tracks, the surface is dreadfull in comparison

but whats so special about you?

 

[dan-ish]

Cool sounds like you had a good day.

What did jordy get in his mk1 rocco?

On a side note why do PVW never phone me? I had one of the fastest golfs in the UK they've taken my number loads of times but I still don't get a call... not that it matters because I sold it.

EDIT: just noticed Marks corrado what time did that do must have been respectable

 

[tris]

Still GUTTED i missed this

glad you had a good time mate

 

[ibizacupra]

Cool sounds like you had a good day.

What did jordy get in his mk1 rocco?

On a side note why do PVW never phone me? I had one of the fastest golfs in the UK they've taken my number loads of times but I still don't get a call... not that it matters because I sold it.

EDIT: just noticed Marks corrado what time did that do must have been respectable

likewise Dan...
I heard about it from JBS James Sunday afternoon, as he was invited but his Octy was'nt finished in time.

there's always a next time, and this time in your A3.

 

[ibizacupra]

Also looking at the hall of fame section in PVW I see once upon a time Bill did a 151.9mph run and also a 159.6mph run in his IHI Ibiza (stripped?!).

Well done m8ty
However... worth mentioning, the speeds are gear limited in mine with the close ratio 6spd. No more gears after 159mph, and Vmax by 1/2 way.

Std box is going back into mine, where its Vmax will be back to aero limited & power limited. I am very interested to see how that goes, as it spins off the clock very quickly on the quaife currently, and I am on tall 17" rims making a taller final drive ratio.

Interesting invitee list tho.

Well done...

 

[andyj]

looks like you had a good day matey!

will be keeping my eye out for the report in PVW... any idea when they're going to publish it ?!?

 

[Mitchy]

Sonds good J@mes i'd be up for that if it was organised as a SCN day.

Good verified top end speed aswell

 

[jetsetjimbo]

Nice one - Looks like a blast. Some seriously fast kit there!

 

[Dodson]

Id be defo game for the SCN group thrash like!!

 

[jenk]

Quality

 

[J@mes]

thanks for the nice comments guys!

why me acidstrato... well to be perfectly honest, i emailed them last week re trying to organise a group thrash after seeing the polo group thrash and their reply was yes, but in the beginin of next year as they are sooo busy atm!

obviously in the email i included the spec and a few pics of my car

and at the end of their reply they offered for me to come to this thrash day!... who was i to say no?!


EDIT: just got an email from Simon Jackson...

"...No probs, glad you enjoyed it and good to have you there and gets some Leon times on the board!

Hope to get something sorted with the forum at some point, would be good to get the guys in the mag..."


in the hall of fame there is only one Leon.. now there will be two!

tris... yes fella... shame u couldnt come!
no one could lol being a monday!

 

[J@mes]

Cool sounds like you had a good day.

What did jordy get in his mk1 rocco?

On a side note why do PVW never phone me? I had one of the fastest golfs in the UK they've taken my number loads of times but I still don't get a call... not that it matters because I sold it.

EDIT: just noticed Marks corrado what time did that do must have been respectable

Dan... not sure wat the mk1 rocco got, i think it was one of the last to run!

as for marks corrado (thats the black 4WD jabba'd one right?!)... that was rapid as foook! think he may have even got a high 3 to 60 if not was a low 4



andyJ...this thrash day will be published not in the next issue (due out next week i think) but the issue after... so about 5 weeks time

EDIT: should be in issue 122

 

[J@mes]

Well done m8ty
However... worth mentioning, the speeds are gear limited in mine with the close ratio 6spd. No more gears after 159mph, and Vmax by 1/2 way.

Std box is going back into mine, where its Vmax will be back to aero limited & power limited. I am very interested to see how that goes, as it spins off the clock very quickly on the quaife currently, and I am on tall 17" rims making a taller final drive ratio.

Interesting invitee list tho.

Well done...

thanks bill!


and yes indeed... ur Vmax with the std box will be very impressive! tho how big are your balls? (will the strip be long enough?!) lol.

 

[ArosaRacer]

id be up for group thrash!

and i'll bring the slowrosa to see how slow it really is