DannyB
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What's stopping you using a makeshift mesh type of thing. Just make one out of 2mm ally sheet and drill a shit loads of holes in it and properly secure it. Best of both worlds then surely?
I personally wouldn't like to take the risk of building an engine and something so easily prevented causing it to fuck up.
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bigron1988
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really cant see the point in running no filter on this , fitting a proper one is only going to loose 1/2 bhp and could save the engine , i only dont run one as it would loose me 30/40 bhp but there will be a filter on it all the time till it goes to the burnout area and straight back on at the end of the run
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Steve
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Apparently it ran 'slow as fuck' so must lose several hundred bhp from fittingone i imagine
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bigron1988
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Apparently it ran 'slow as fuck' so must lose several hundred bhp from fittingone i imagine
if thats the case then when people fit proper air filters to 300bhp standard cars do they loose power? no , its because a cheap ebay filter was used ,
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taylorboosh
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It was a sock filter straight in the maf by the sounds of it
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Nic Barnes
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Vrsturbo is only jealous as your car is vastly faster than his jed, and vastly cheaper, oh and you did it yourself.
 ok Nicolas. Seeing as though I've done most the work on my car.
sure you have princess
Any one can build a car to go in a straight line 
in your case, the phrase would be "pay someone" your fingers nails are perfect like a girls. works on cars, really............
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AK
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get rid of that 10ton battery!!!!
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Jed D
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get rid of that 10ton battery!!!!
aye, i was thinking about making a bracket to mount it at the front somewhere, sounds daft but more weight over the front wheels...
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AK
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This runs in the 12's ??!??! What on earth has been done to it to get that quick? What terminal speed?
Must have a much better launch / 60ft than normal to get that quick if not running fairly high power.
Cant really remember now but I think I could only manage 13.7 or something with a 200bhp lightweight XE
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AK
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get rid of that 10ton battery!!!!
aye, i was thinking about making a bracket to mount it at the front somewhere, sounds daft but more weight over the front wheels...
Thats a good point for launching it, but you then have to carry it up the rest of the strip  Lighter is nearly always better
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Nic Barnes
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Should bin the other headlight as well and replace it with a blank made from fibreglass
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Jed D
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This runs in the 12's ??!??! What on earth has been done to it to get that quick? What terminal speed?
Must have a much better launch / 60ft than normal to get that quick if not running fairly high power.
Cant really remember now but I think I could only manage 13.7 or something with a 200bhp lightweight XE
12.95 @ 104.5mph with a badly slipping XE clutch. 0-60 4.2seconds so room to improve... 8.26 at the 1/8 and 1.8680 60ft
its practically stock... G inlet cams, fse reg, 3l lower divider, TTV xe flywheel, f20.
13.7 is good from a XE but if its running 200bhp you must have some weight in it...
my mate got a 13.7 the same day out of a completely stock XE corsa... only thing it has is a fse reg
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Should bin the other headlight as well and replace it with a blank made from fibreglass
aye was thinking that mate, been looking for them through the stock car boys but aint too cheap
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AK
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12.9 at 105..
Wait a minute...
I was doing 13.7 or so at 105/106 with 2.0/2.1 60fts.
How on earth do those times work
13.7 on a standard XE  whheeet
I'm I losing a second somewhere
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Nic Barnes
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York is a better surface than crail.
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AK
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but 1sec different ET for 0.2 60ft difference... oof.
Must be glued or something
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Nic Barnes
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See I can hit mid 130 terminals same as what bigron did at pod running 10.6 yet I do 12.0 as its the surface difference.
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AK
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yup, big difference in grip for the first bit.... must make a huge difference with your power, no so on an XE that will stop spinning 20m or so up the strip
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taylorboosh
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Nor sure if you read jeds thread but he has some fibre glass panels and cut all the strength out... It will deffo be light
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spencer88
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0-60 in 4.2? Really?
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VrsTurbo
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
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Originally posted by VrsTurbo
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Originally posted by Nic Barnes
Vrsturbo is only jealous as your car is vastly faster than his jed, and vastly cheaper, oh and you did it yourself.
ok Nicolas. Seeing as though I've done most the work on my car.
sure you have princess
Any one can build a car to go in a straight line
in your case, the phrase would be "pay someone" your fingers nails are perfect like a girls. works on cars, really............
wow you are such a chump.
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Jed D
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York is a better surface than crail.
was prepped well that day aswel
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Jed D
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i have the reaction time of a dead snail... need to work on that!!
there was our mate with a 4 door nova with a very similar spec 2.5 v6 in there the same day and he couldn't get it lower that a 13.5... i honestly think my exhaust has made the world of difference, no silencers or anything, just strate out the side, no back pressure... it loves it
i could probs work on the fueling... its not ideal, its probs a bit on the rich side low down the revs but lean high up... hence why i said in a previous thread that a wideband may be required...
few other tweaks to come from the engine over the winter i think too.... spending all my money on getting it out to use at the min
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Steve
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Have you got a pic of the slip?
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Jed D
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Jed D
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yet the worst one of that day (the one with the foam from a b.new hks replica type air filter stuffed up inside the air intake pipe agaist the mesh of the afm) was a 18.5 yet my reaction time was 1.0168 (which i can only put down to the fact the clutch was still b.new at that point haha)
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