#FINISHED Retro Show, 18th July Santa Pod

[A Van]

Great work guys, couldnt ask for any more detailed explanation Gez!

[arranj]

Indeedie! I like the lightening quick reaction times. You should have done a Top Gear style driver swap as well - to eliminate any doubt!

Who did your Volvo fuelling conversion then Gez?

[A Van]

I spotted that A Team van on the A14, must have been coming back!

[jerzybondov]

Who did the Volvo fuelling - me, Dan and Chris S. It was a basically a temp fix at Eurotec to stop the engine exploding due to running over-lean.

Here are the full details from mine and Dan's best runs:

Dan:
Reaction 0.33
60ft 2.37
330ft 6.72
1/8 ET 10.37
1/8 MPH 66.23
1000' ET 13.56
1000' MPH 76.29
1/4 ET 16.26
1/4 MPH 83.03

Gez:
Reaction 0.36
60ft 2.29
330ft 6.81
1/8 ET 10.61
1/8 MPH 63.94
1000' ET 13.97
1000' MPH 72.90
1/4 ET 16.81
1/4 MPH 79.82

Again, this was into a strong headwind. Would be interested to see if the cars would go half a second quicker on a still day...

What's also interesting is that I was running Dynolicious on my iPhone on a few runs. Here's what the app gave me:

Gez (Dynolicious)
Reaction -
60ft 2.55
330ft 6.88
1/8 ET 10.49
1/8 MPH 68.9
1000' ET 13.6
1000' MPH 78.2
1/4 ET 16.22
1/4 MPH 86.3

0-60MPH 8.27

What's interesting about the Dynolicious results is that they seem fairly accurate up to the 330ft mark and not too far out at the 1/8 mile - but it becomes less accurate after 10 seconds of running. Which might actually mean the 0-60 time is reasonably accurate...

[jerzybondov]

And here's my little vid to commemorate the occasion...

Gutted that the GoPro camera I had (the awesome interior shot where you see out of both side window and windscreen) ran out of battery 30 seconds before the start...

Would be nice to bring down all the kit another time and do a proper Top Gear job (rather than filming on a crap digital stills camera blu-tacced to the binnacle)!

[arranj]

Wow Gez! You're wasted on here - you should be a film producer or something!

Brilliant video!

[A Van]

Superb Gez!

[tourettes tony]

Awesome Dude and dan

[RobvdVeer]

Amazing stuff sirs!