Turbo @ Pod 12.3@ 117mph

[Coops]

Got my arm twisted into going to santa pod today, Dan el turbo man has been pestering me for weeks to go and i eventually caved in

initial plan was to run his car and i'd just passenger down, but in end i took the turbo..........couldn't resist!!!

had a cracking day and laid down my best time yet, finally set a couple of decent 60ft's as well peak being the best run!

i got consistently into the mid 12's most of the morning, and eventually just before lunch struck into the low's with a 12.36@117mph. 60ft or 2.06 olay!!!

and this is from a car that split a pipe on way down and was botched up oin tesco carpark again, after the fiasco with radiators and head tanks at mallory as well!

still confused about the header tank pressure issues but after re-routing the turbo water pipes the issues seems less pronounced, so roll on donny, see how it goes

then after lunch me and dan swapped cars and had a blat in each others, both to fairly useless effect! weird as i cant drive his and he could only crack 12.9 in mine as well, madness!!!lol!!!

then we had the inevitable incident, dan's second gear decided it had had enough and ran off into the sunset, so off home he limped!!! quick swap ready for donny on the cards now!!

cheers to Dan and Bacon for a top day!

slip below for your delectation folks!!

cheers

Coops

[Wobba]

Man that's fast!

[Kingscott]

That's a quick little 5 turbo! Whats the spec ? If you need any advice regarding the water system give me a shout, owned my 5 for 10 years, not much I don't know about lol.

[zmaster2k]

It's a Clio dude! 1.8 16v turbo

[Kingscott]

Ah, sorry saw the slip, didn't read it correctly.

[Coops]

lol, it was RTOC pod day, but mines still a renault turbo, just not as renault intended!

[tutuur]

You're not right on that one Coops.
Someone told me at first Renault intended to make the clio's turbocharged but due to emission and other rules they didn't do it.

A shame they didn't design the gearboxes for that kind of violence. Would make things alot easier!!

Nice time man! You might consider about going the vr6 gearbox route too.
A sper diff costs half the money of a jc5 one. The ratio's are lot better for turbo use and last but not least.

A bone stock vr6 gearbox can handle 350hp and more then 350 lb/ft without breaking

[Coffee Mug]

Anyone any idea what a standard mk2 clio cup race car would do?

[Flan]

About mid 14's

Rappido that Coops!!!

[Coffee Mug]

About mid 14's

Rappido that Coops!!!

Mid 14s?

I doubt that very much. Some road cars can egde that.

Anyone with an informed opinion?