Quarter Mile Times

[Brucester70]

I have not had my Westy that long and am thinking about popping up to one of the run what ya bring things at santa pod.  I have a Vauxhall 2.0 pre-ecotec with twin webber 45's, on 15" Alloys.  I have no idea what sort of quarter times are achievable yet, any ideas? Are sub 15 secs possible?  Also a friend has just picked up a Uk Scooby X-Reg, its got a new pipe and air filter, any ideas how the westy will get on against the scoob down the strip, imagine it would be close.

Cheers

[stu999]

IMO you should be looking at around mid to high 13s. But, like everything, it depends on soooo much.

I went to a Vauxhall car club RWYB earlier this year and watched a new Scooby get wasted by a 16v Nova, which was really struggling for traction. With that in mind, with the same engine, RWD, and a lot less weight, disposing of your friends Scooby should be no probs.

However, no LSD, banana skin tyres, unsuitable gearing, etc etc all play a part. Good luck in finding out if you do go, and let us know how you get on!

[DavidBirchZEI220]

Check out the times on Ian's site.

http://www.seight.com/

David

[SEiGHT]

Traction off the line will be your biggest problem at Santa Pod. If you can master that you should be able to do a sub-14 second quite easily.

I went up against a WRX300 and whilst he was off the line and over the first 60ft before me

my power to weight ration meant in the end I beat him by 8/10ths (13.5 vs 14.2)

[peterg]

14.2 vs 13.5  eerrmmmm shouldn't that be 7/10ths    

[SEiGHT]

Oops, I just copied it off the timing report. That extra 1/10th was due to my quick reactions