NITROUS OXIDE ( nos / n2o ) advice forum

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

But where's the shot from the front that was texted to me, as that was even more AMAZING!?!?!?!?

I posted your impressive result (yet ANOTHER WIN) on the following thread but for some reason nobody has taken any notice and responded (which I can't understand as you have such a positive following on my forum);
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I just hope they see this your post.

Please drop me a PM when you're available for a chat, as I'd like to discuss some tech stuff with you.

Ian has the other pictures, that one was a snapshot from my launch video.

I'll give you a call soon, but we are racing again next weekend (Round 3- @ Shakey) so I've got a pretty busy week coming up...........Probably the week after...............

I'll get the video clips posted and a report (including the reason for the wheelie ) sorted in the next couple of days.

We've also flow tested the nitrous side of the system, in readiness for stepping up the power. I'll foward you a spreadsheet of the results once I've typed it out!
Time allowing, we'll be testing the fuel side at Shakey.

The most important job to tackle is the lack of a decent launch! After the wheelie, we smoked the tyres on every pass- We've messed up a setting somewhere, either the Max, MSD or suspension, so I will be spending a couple of quiet hours at Shakey checking everything.....

Brain.

Flippin' Eck!!!

What a picture

The man has Y fronts of cast iron

Make that balls of iron.

Here's the pic you've all been waiting for;

hehehehehehehe awesome
that is totally mental, no bars on the back
ians got some nuts worth hugging

Shakespeare County this weekend for Round 3. Hopefully less "up" and more "forward" this time!

but its the upwards while going forward that makes you so popular
are wheelie bars allowed? it would be something new for brain to play with

Nope, no "sissy" bars allowed!
I believe in a 'no bar' class, the Max Extreme will give us the adjustability to control the front end lift better than anything the turbo cars can do.
Once I get my launch mojo back, we will start to play with ramp rates on the Max- My target is to be the first radial tyre car in Europe to run a sub 5 second 1/8th mile!
Oh, and try to win the next meeting too!

Brain.

Agreed on no wheelie bars for a street class and the Max giving you the control that turbo's wont have.

What's the current 1/8 mile record and while you're running the sub 5 1/8, just keep your foot in and take the 1/4 record while you're at it.

Your names as good as on the first sub 5 sec run in that case.

The Spring Nationals was a very difficult weekend for us that resulted in a first round loss to our main title challenger, Steve Pateman. The track was very poor and we failed to master it before eliminations . Forget nitrous, it took us 5 of our six qualifiers to find a tune for a N/A launch! And when we went out on Monday for that first round even that had disappeared. I am not blaming the track for the result as it was the same for everyone.
This is our first full season with the new engine (and a lighter car) and we are still learning. We will get better.
We are still leading as, fortunately for us, Steve lost in the final. But that lead has been severely reduced. In effect our season starts at the Summer Nats in June and we've got a small head start!
We are going to pull the motor over the next couple of weeks and check it over but first we have to fix our bus whicj now has almost zero oil pressure!!

Just a quicky to let the non-Associates know that we had another victory on Sunday and remain on top of the Street Eliminator championship. I have to be honest and say that once again fortune smiled on us but they do say that to finish first, first you have to finish! We were number three qualifier, raced an opponent in every round (no byes) and beat the number two qualifier in the final.
Big thanks to my crew and to Trev for such a tunable system. All we need now is a driver who puts his foot down properly.
Cheers
Fatty

Well done Fatty well deserved

Another win for the Fat Boys!!!

Thats 4 wins out of 5 rounds this year

We still have an evil handling car- but at least we now have an idea where the problem(s) lie.
Fatty did an awesome job this weekend, keeping the car under some sort of control and in it's own lane
And we ran our quickest pass of the year so far- 8.08 . Without the handling issues I think we could have matched, if not bettered our 7.80 pass..............

More when time allows..................

Brain.

Thanks to Brain for the praise. And, yes, the car is quite scary at the moment. "Ragged edge" is probably a very appropriate description of where we are with the handling.
Of particular interest to this board was the tuning we did between semi final and final. The track had been pretty good through most of Sunday (we went 8.08) but in the semi I had to pedal twice for an 8.80. We knew we faced Brian Payne in his Mustang in the final and he'd gone 8.10 earlier in the day. Brain & I discussed our options and a few button presses on the Max Extreme later we had a milder tune in - it's so easy to work with. And I reckon we got it right on the nail. The car went 8.27 and I doubt we could have gone anymore than 5/100 quicker without it spinning. I beat Brian off the line and our ET was enough to cover his 8.53. But an 8.27 to 8.53 final from road legal cars - quite something in my (slightly biased) view.

SHIT!!!!!

I didn't realise you were racing this weekend!!!!!

So annoyed that I missed that but VERY PLEASED that you once again nailed the opposition. Considering your handling problems it's TRULY AMAZING that you've had such GREAT results. We can only imagine the kind of results you'd be achieving if you had perfect handling but at least it's showing the extent of the worth of the Max Extreme, providing you with the extent of control you've obviously had to rely on (in conjunction with your own OUTSTANDING control which goes without saying) to stay the right side of that ragged edge.

Where were you racing this weekend then?

BTW how many rounds are left and surely you have the 2010 Championship under your belt by now anyway!?!?!?!?

We were at the Pod. There are 3 rounds left but we need to score reasonable points in at least two of them to secure the championship. We may decide to throttle back a bit now as any damage (whether from pushing the engine or an accident) would cost us dear.
We are back in action on August Bank Holiday at Shakey. If we can get the car running straight again we should get some reasonable numbers.
I am convinced there is a LOT more to come out of this car but I'm not going to risk crashing it to prove it!

Martin and I have discussed this and if we can secure the championship before the last round AND we can get the car going straight we will deffo be going for it at the National Finals. Martin even reckons we can do it without upjetting!!