09-08-2015, 07:47 PM
Went to a RWYB at Santa Pod today, first time Iv taken the Evo on the strip, father inlaw came to in his Impreza Turbo 2000, first time he's ever been and last time I went was 5 years ago in the old ST205!
Managed to get 10 runs in as it wasn't overly busy considering the weather was nice - re:hot!
First run was just a test run as Iv not had the car flat out in the higher gears since it had the new actuator and remap, so let it roll a few feet and then floored it, result 14.16 @ 104mph but still left the Audi A3 2.0 TDI for dead in the other lane
The next 5 runs were high to mid 13's as I started to try to launch it but was getting nowhere with bogging down mostly (I knew i'd be a bit rusty at launching but didn't think i'd be this bad!)
After the lunch break I decided to break out the secret weapon, launch control never really used this properely before but had to do something to improve!
And it worked! 12.85 @ 110mph! Still got a bit of bogging but nowhere near as much,it was just a question of not lighting up the rear tyres now!
The following run was an even better start but missed 3rd gear which cost me a couple of tenths.
Penultimate run was the best start of the day but I had to change up into 5th before the line else I would of been bouncing off the limiter!
The last run was quickest of the day, 12.75 @ 108, not quite as quick off the line as the previous run but because of this I could just get away with almost maxing out in 4th over the line, was on 7.5k rpm,redlines at 7k and have no idea where the limiter is but wasn't going to push my luck too much.
The guy in the yellow Mustang GT500 Supercharger looked a bit bemused as an 18 year old Mitsubishi was running side by side down the strip on the last run! He beat me over the line by half a car length, not bad considering he had twice the capacity, twice the cylinders, considerable more power and drag slicks on the back!
Heres the timing slip
![[Image: Times_zpsz15gx3v1.jpg]](http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr283/paulgtt/Times_zpsz15gx3v1.jpg)
and matey boy's 'stang lol
![[Image: 11844151_10207494871200508_625099965_n_zps9t7ym6vd.jpg]](http://i492.photobucket.com/albums/rr283/paulgtt/11844151_10207494871200508_625099965_n_zps9t7ym6vd.jpg)
I do have an onboard video too but no matter what I try I can't get it to upload!
We are looking at going again towards the end of the year, the heat was sapping performance but at least the track was sticky!
And im going to be checking what gearbox I actually have as it seems ever so short ratio'd, 110mph redline in 4th? Maybe its an RS 'box....heres hoping!
Managed to get 10 runs in as it wasn't overly busy considering the weather was nice - re:hot!
First run was just a test run as Iv not had the car flat out in the higher gears since it had the new actuator and remap, so let it roll a few feet and then floored it, result 14.16 @ 104mph but still left the Audi A3 2.0 TDI for dead in the other lane
The next 5 runs were high to mid 13's as I started to try to launch it but was getting nowhere with bogging down mostly (I knew i'd be a bit rusty at launching but didn't think i'd be this bad!)
After the lunch break I decided to break out the secret weapon, launch control never really used this properely before but had to do something to improve!
And it worked! 12.85 @ 110mph! Still got a bit of bogging but nowhere near as much,it was just a question of not lighting up the rear tyres now!
The following run was an even better start but missed 3rd gear which cost me a couple of tenths.
Penultimate run was the best start of the day but I had to change up into 5th before the line else I would of been bouncing off the limiter!
The last run was quickest of the day, 12.75 @ 108, not quite as quick off the line as the previous run but because of this I could just get away with almost maxing out in 4th over the line, was on 7.5k rpm,redlines at 7k and have no idea where the limiter is but wasn't going to push my luck too much.
The guy in the yellow Mustang GT500 Supercharger looked a bit bemused as an 18 year old Mitsubishi was running side by side down the strip on the last run! He beat me over the line by half a car length, not bad considering he had twice the capacity, twice the cylinders, considerable more power and drag slicks on the back!
Heres the timing slip
![[Image: Times_zpsz15gx3v1.jpg]](http://s492.photobucket.com/user/paulgtt/media/Times_zpsz15gx3v1.jpg.html)
and matey boy's 'stang lol
![[Image: 11844151_10207494871200508_625099965_n_zps9t7ym6vd.jpg]](http://s492.photobucket.com/user/paulgtt/media/11844151_10207494871200508_625099965_n_zps9t7ym6vd.jpg.html)
I do have an onboard video too but no matter what I try I can't get it to upload!
We are looking at going again towards the end of the year, the heat was sapping performance but at least the track was sticky!
And im going to be checking what gearbox I actually have as it seems ever so short ratio'd, 110mph redline in 4th? Maybe its an RS 'box....heres hoping!