NITROUS OXIDE ( nos / n2o ) advice forum

Well its here again - weve already got a thread but the IT Guy CANT FIND IT!

Ah well

Whos coming?

The Skoda lives again (temporarily) so I will be there
Steve U in his Rover (his Skoda aint ready yet)
Little Rob in the Furby (once we get the Minimax fitted)

And?.........

By the time I get the Bimmer running again on NOS, all the warm weather fun for 2010 will be over.
I can't get out of the weekend shift anyway

I'll be there eventually Stevie!!

I've got to start a job at BAE Farnborough at 7.30am on Saturday. So I'm towing the MG to work. And then leaving the lads to get on with the job once I've got it sussed. Hoping to leave Farnborough by 12.30 and drive straight to the Pod. This will save me an hour by not having to divert back home to collect the trailer. I can just stay on the M25 and pop round to the M1.
I'm hoping to arrive at 3pm. I wont have the gazebo etc. Just the gas burner and some burgers and beers. As you know I have DVD in the truck so I may be charging 50p admission to watch Hotrod Porn

I'll just sleep in the truck. Unless you have room in your sleeping bag honey

So the usual suspects - (less Rich)

Anyone else?

Sorry Pel your just NOT my type.

Prefer leggy brunettes.

Too late dude!!

I'm going to snuggle up and rub my pulsoids now

I raided the Tea machine stash at work today!
I got 40 coffee with suger
20 coffee no sugar
20 latte's
20 tommy soup
20 minestrone soup

And I've found the magic combo for cheap nosh pit side

24 warburtons baps £2...
16 tesco sausages 98p
20 cheap rashers £2...
Big bottle of tesco tommy sauce £1...

24 meat baps for under a fiver!! Cant be bad eh

I might even chuck in a pack of tesco burgers for £2 and an onion as well !!

It would cost over £70 to buy this stuff from the burger van + £1 a cup for tea and coffee

That means I can feed my home boys and still afford the gas, fuel and beer for the weekend

I will still bring the BBQ. But it will be loaded with logs and coal on Saturday night so we can warm our hands.

I just need someone to video any runs I do in the dark

Hokay - Your on - will charge up some kit and make sure it is at trackside

Will also bring my tea burner etc.

Have a great time guys.
I MUST be ready for next years Sat Night Special

There will be one in october Rich!

And the way the weather is going it could be quite nice too!

Thats great news Steve, I'll aim for that plus the BMW Show in Sept

Hope to make Sat or Sun which ever offers the best weather ,


Austin

OK Pel, just loading up , Saturday weather looks best, see you there.

Austin

Cool!
I was going to work tomorrow. But thats been cancelled so I'll be there 1st thing now

What a FANTASTIC bit of weather!

Lots of Bacon, burgers and sossages to go round.

Roll on the next one!

What a great weekend of racing / testing eh guys??

Stevie!
I think you need to buy a car transporter dude! That way you can bring loads of Skoda's to trash on uber boost + nitrous

Austin!
Your help this weekend was invaluable mate. Especially the use of your bore scope. I've just realised that the dent in the top of my no1 piston looks like the wedding ring I lost during the engine rebuild

I'm happy that the Holley 60DP is now working as best as it can on my little engine.
We did shed loads more testing on Sunday. I have all the data logged. (thats written on a piece of paper, and not on a computer by the way)

After you went, Me and Jason had a party in the pits. The 3 (skoda) Musketeeers were there. Thats Steve, Rob and "steve U".
Then The pod photographers (Ian and Paula) rocked up around midnight for BBQ and Beers.

I've never seen Santapod so empty??

I got on site at 9am to find only 20 cars on site. I think I was the highest sign on number at 150 by 7pm on the Saturday?

I thought Sunday would be busy. But it wasnt. One of Sam AX's mates trashed his tranny and dumped his load of gearbox oil on track late this afternoon. Even after an hours or so clean up. The queue was only only about 10 pairs behind the Zebra crossing

It was just the best weekend for tuning and test runs. I've got some great pics and vids to post up as soon as I can figure out why my Q time player has stopped working??

I spent all day Saturday (11 hours) and 7 hours on Sunday getting my Holley carb set up. I used 9 gallons of petrol just on nasp runs. And another 3 gallons of petrol and 15lbs of nitrous on static testing with only 6 nitrous passes all weekend

I now have great data on testing the Spider as well as some other problems I need to iron out on the dyno next month. Last year I PB'd at 10.6. This weekend I made 11.4 with 100hp less gas??

I helped Sam out with some static and flow testing. I think he PB'd on the setting I left him with? Sam is a really nice bloke as well!

I was jumping up and down as Sams little Citroen AX came in about a car length behind a Big Mustang

I gave Sam a few idea's about shift points etc. His last run was a real hard pass. He crossed the line and coasted toe the exit gate. He used hardly any pedal on the way back so we could check his plugs. But halfway down the return lane his engine went CLUNK!
He coasted back in and we pushed him to my trailer. We found that his cam belt tensioner pulley had come adrift? The bolt had sheared and the cam belt had popped off?

Sam was last seen being towed out of the pits by a mate of his. Hopefully the engine wont be too badly damaged. Fingers crossed !!

Good luck Sam!!
I hope we will meet again later this year dude!!

Perry

Had a great day day Saturday, good to meet up with everyone again,got to thank Steve for taking a passanger ride in the truck to visualy log the Max operation for me,

Perry nice to see the MG making some strong runs again ,did you have enough gas for Sunday?

Austin

Thanks for the ride Austin!

Its very educational to ride along with any other driver, see how they do stuff etc.

Thanks for all the help perry car runs alot better now and got a better understanding of the won system, the golf vr6's came to the rescure as both of them had to tow me and my mates broken french crap home. I get the head off soon and have a look at the damged im hoping its just bent the valves on and no head on cam damage as just put the new high lift cams in. im sort of thank full it let go at the end on the week end as it could of done it satadya morning a mesh up my hole week end.

Sam

Austin!
I could only do nasp runs on Sunday. I tried 3 nitrous passes, but way too much pressure drop in bottles for anything decent. The last attempt was at 850psi with 3lbs in the bottle. But that had dropped to 600psi by the end.

I was happy to have done all the nasp work anyway. I have morer to do on the gas yet as I can easily find 6000rpm on the track nasp, and easily find 6000rpm on a static test. But on the track with gas it gets to 4400rpm and just stays there? I did manage to do timing adjustment on the fly from the 1/8th mile marker. She got to 4400rpm and I slowly adjusted the timing + & - 3 degree's. No difference at all. At least I've made some progress.

Sam!
Bad luck mate. I hope the car is ok.

Perry

Heres one of 7 slo mo vids that Ian did for me on the weekend

Its a 3 min vid. But only about 10 seconds in real time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_8SfNwjsMk

I dunno POSING for the cameras again Pel


Very nice - it shows that your getting a nice smooth burn and no nasty judders

Pell just one thing , ya went to all that effort to warm and clean tyers almost stoped and drove out of box covering tyers with water , would it not be better to burn rubber out of box ? till ya in dry , plus the bike boys will thank ya for it