I was at the SCN RR day at RSTuning on Saturday and was chatting to Blade before his K1 went on the rollers - the usual sort of thing of 'so what you done? what you hoping to get?'. Well I must admit when he said 'I've had it mapped and played with the air intake - it made 316bhp the other week' I thought this should be interesting...
So I was watching the big screen with interest and the graph launched it self up the screen in an almost vertical line and off the chart; it was at this point someone said it had skipped on the rollers - I bet blades face was a picture in the car! Anyway the second run was well over 300bhp (can't remember the exact numbers) but the third run popped up 332bhp and 350lb-ft on the big screen!!!
A bit later on Blade took me out for a blast up the road - he pulled out of the trading estate and then once rolling jumped on the loud pedal - fook me! I was expecting power but nothing like this, the car just surged forward even though it was wet and the wheels were spinning and Blade was not even using all the revs.
I've been in a few fast road cars over the years - but nothing has impressed me like his K1. Hopefully I can blag a blast in the dry sometime...
So I was watching the big screen with interest and the graph launched it self up the screen in an almost vertical line and off the chart; it was at this point someone said it had skipped on the rollers - I bet blades face was a picture in the car! Anyway the second run was well over 300bhp (can't remember the exact numbers) but the third run popped up 332bhp and 350lb-ft on the big screen!!!
A bit later on Blade took me out for a blast up the road - he pulled out of the trading estate and then once rolling jumped on the loud pedal - fook me! I was expecting power but nothing like this, the car just surged forward even though it was wet and the wheels were spinning and Blade was not even using all the revs.
I've been in a few fast road cars over the years - but nothing has impressed me like his K1. Hopefully I can blag a blast in the dry sometime...