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ah might of had street tyres ;( booo

haha yer street tyres, :( could not even move out of the hole with out heading for the wall and my valve springs are stuffed, they are coil binding so every time I come on boost it starts to fludder out and it has no boost, the one run where I smoked tyres off line then straitened up into top gear I went 12.40 at 127 mph, there were cars doing easy 10 sec passes there with that sort of mph, I checked the tyre pressures after that run and they were at 35 lol so I put it to 25 got out of the whole a bit better but would hit top gear and the car would just die on me no boost and sounded very sick, gso I got off it and putted throught the tramps at 12.30 108 mph haha nearly 20 mph less and faster time , so ill be back with tyrers and valve springs and should see at 10 sec pass

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hey mate saw your car there, looked and sounded mint!

looked like you didn't do a skid to warm up the tyres at all? or did you only do small ones?

was your car tuned with no exhaust and the air intake like that? sure its not overboosting or anything?

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hey mate saw your car there, looked and sounded mint!

looked like you didn't do a skid to warm up the tyres at all? or did you only do small ones?

was your car tuned with no exhaust and the air intake like that? sure its not overboosting or anything?

Yer *Beep* hopfully your car is ready it will be good, and no the car wasn't tuned with pipe off or intake and the car prob is over boosting a bit but it is still doing the same thing with pipe on and my previous xr6t had the exact same prob and it was valve springs :( . My first run I done a massive burnout then when I took off I had no boost the whole run and it sounded like the car was dying, so then every run after I didn't do a skid cos I wanted boost during run, well hopfully next time with slicks we can get some good mph again with a half decent time :)

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Unlucky mate. It must be damn annoying to have a car with so much potential yet have valve spring dramas. I might have to go have another crack soon as I bet it was pretty cool up there last night. Goodluck on your next run and hopefully you have some slicks by then. Oh and what size stally you have?

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Unlucky mate. It must be damn annoying to have a car with so much potential yet have valve spring dramas. I might have to go have another crack soon as I bet it was pretty cool up there last night. Goodluck on your next run and hopefully you have some slicks by then. Oh and what size stally you have?

Thanks man, yer it was annoying but like u said it was awesome to be there, it was my first time racing and there is nothing better, um the stally, well I was told when I got the car it was a 2800 but when I got the gear box rebuilt I got the convertor loosened up another 500 or so :) well might see u at the track then

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ah ok I see, so after you give it a bit of hard time the valve springs start to suffer.

be good to see it out there again, should run a decent number one you get it all sorted.

Track looked a bit slippery last night too, my mate had a fair bit of wheelspin in his Tornado, ended up running a 12.9 @108 (manual)

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ah ok I see, so after you give it a bit of hard time the valve springs start to suffer.

be good to see it out there again, should run a decent number one you get it all sorted.

Track looked a bit slippery last night too, my mate had a fair bit of wheelspin in his Tornado, ended up running a 12.9 @108 (manual)

Yer it was def slippery every time I hit top gear it would get heaps of wheel spin and yer that's right as soon as it starts to go good it dies in the ass. I can't wait to get back out there judging by the mph it should go very fast when it hooks up.

Good times for the ute I remember seeing it out there :)

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Yeah its definatley awesome to line it up and not have to worry bout po po when your flat to the boards. When I went the other week I lined the car up with the back wheels lol and didnt know what all the fuss was about. Nerves start to get to ya when you line your tyres up to do a skid and the car in front of ya is launching off the starting line.. Wicked... Oh and definately a good time in it with that mph. Probs get a better mph again when you can get grip.

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Post up another thread or keep updates in this one as I am hanging to get to the drags, would prefer if I went with some people who have some experience there. :3gears:

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