NITROUS OXIDE ( nos / n2o ) advice forum

So after 2 years of lack lustre performance and issues I started running High 15's again this year and have progressed steadily to a 15.1 @ 88 mph.

I put in a few runs with a good reaction time of .14 and .17 (obviously need better but hey)

Then I was called out to race against him in his other halfs 4.0 Jag
The results are on video here - http://youtu.be/yTM5bWZ1DtY

And as he was so adamant he was going to beat me 'agreed' to up the stakes!


beat him on RT by 0.6 secs and across the finish of 15.1 to his 15.3 - a 1989 1.3 vs a 2001 4.0 litre!

Of course not that I want to rub it in even more but the Skoda had a blown head gasket and STILL beat him!
oh and closed the track for 20 mins

blimey Steve ,you left him for dead

EXCELLENT JOB!!!!

I doubt his ego will EVER get over that thrashing and you'd have thought the first thing he'd do after that was order one of our nitrous systems but some people just don't seem to get it, either that or they enjoy being thrashed.

Ha Ha!!
Mike has had no end of bashing from me and the lads since Stevie beat him

Yes well - I keep chalking up the kills - 1.6 MooR2 with Nitrous and a MGB and a few others that just didnt expect me to leave the line THAT quick.

Mind you Mum still has the biggest kill of a Lancia rally replica that was so surprised she beat him off the line that he left most of the car on the track!

Funniest thing i've seen in a while.......


You did tell him it was go on green?

this takes me bag to when I was a kid, my grandfather had a 1205L Estelle and I`d love to have one. they`re like rocking horse poo these days.
he had a few skoda`s after that too, from the Estelle, to a favorit, then had two Felicia`s (I sent the 1st one to heaven 3 weeks after passing my test) then had a fabia.
nice to see some old school skoda still kicking arse!

I keep seeing more and more Skoda's and damn do they look mean!

Quite like the estate's meself

Yes but this is a REAL SKoda - made in 1989 several years before VW took over. Its a shame they reused the name for a hatchback!

Ahh That's very true, but they still live on in one way or another

Go on the GREEN???
We go on the Amber mate...!!

Skoda's leave the line quick from deep stage and when the Ambers start to come on. Aint that Right Steve ???

Its all about knowing how your car leaves the line if you want a holeshot win to trash a 4 litre V8 with a 1300 4 pot motor

Well Done Blue

Can i ask Steve or anyone who knows,im presuming it wasn't a race as such, so was the jags actual 1/4 mile time quicker

Yes Ted it was a RACE -
Mike with the Jag had been banging on all day how he would beat that Skoda in a straight up race.........

My fastest time this year up until that point was a 15.45 and my Reaction time was consistently 0.1.
Mikes fastest with the Jag was 15.2 but is R/t was consistently 0.5 or slower. So provided I was close to my best I would take him on first to finish - there are lights around the timing boards that light for first to finish and a light on the side of the track showing the driver who has won.

When we raced - My R/t was 0.1 his R/t was 0.7 (being generous) My E/t was 15.1 and his was 15.3 On the RWYB and qualifier runs the Elapsed time starts from when you leave the line not when the lights change so I could have been sat there for 4 seconds my E/T is only the time from start line to finish line. Obviously this is not 'race' timing which is from green to finish.

So not only did I beat him off the lights AND blow him away (First to Finish) - MY E/T was faster than his too. I also ran a PB with a blown head gasket!

However - if the track was another 1/4 mile longer with his higher top speed he would have caught me. My top speed was 88mph his was 92mph

But it ISNT so he LOST!

Now Mike owes me his better halfs Jag as he agreed to race for Pinks! And he wasnt even using his OWN car. His car is a methanol rail but the chassis has a few issues

On the Drag race thing - I roll forward into stage then roll a little further so the top pre-stage lights go out but the stage lights (second row) stay on in order to get a better R/T. This is VERY legal as it is the 2nd row of lights that are important. The Pre Stage are only there to assist with staging. I go as far forward as I dare and I am currently running about 0.02 R/T on a good day. I am working more on my reaction times at the moment as if I can get the fastest of the day I get an additional 5 points in the RWYB Challenge. Much needed for a car running 15's http://rwyb.co.uk/cc_introduction.php

Here are the results of the day in the challenge http://rwyb.co.uk/cc_results2013.php?EventDate=28%2F09%2F2013#meetings

Mike is CC3987
I am cc1526
Perry is CC0431
and my Mum Gwen is CC4319

The only vehicles with a smaller engine than mine have motorcycle engines!

wow thanks steve for the insight and theirs me thinking you just see amberish and then hit it...

Hell No Ted

There is quite a bit of expertise that goes into making a hole shot win when two cars are close on ET's for the 1/4 mile

Regardless of time or speed across the finish line. First to cross the line wins in heads up RWYB

Bracket racing is a whole new ball game though. And its great fun. I beat an 11 second drag car with my 18 second tow truck last year in a final heat of an event at Santapod. My old diesel truck left the line with reaction times of 0.03 of a second for 3 runs back to back. I wont go into the details of bracket racing, but if you have a read of how it all works you could run your daily driver on the dragstrip and beat much quicker cars in a race.

Heads up racing sounds more fun perry

Damn, and there was me thinking it was green!

It's been years....I mean centuries since I was last up any strip, no wonder the boys took the piss so much, they always thought I was reading the newspaper when i started!!!