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santa pod,the times and the excuses

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:29 pm
by penton08
well..... it was very windy, it had be raining and i am very fat soooo 14.2 for me :cry: slower than last year!! at least all my runs finished facing the right way tho, hey.....ian?

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:33 pm
by jamiebmw32
what e30 u got mate?

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:35 pm
by penton08
s50b30 powered tec2 sportalike

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:40 pm
by Rav335uk
15.6 for me on the second run :D ,
no excuses, just the wind as penton said, bass box, everyone elses items i picked up in car, camping stuff in the car, hardtop, oh and me. :mad:

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:41 pm
by jamiebmw32
sweet just got a 318i for my first e30, went down santa pod dint take it down strip tho

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:55 pm
by Dezzy
I didn't run for obvious reasons :cry: but everything I saw go down was slower than i expected.

If you had stopped show boating and spinning first and second you could have had low 15's Rav

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:09 pm
by DanThe
14.01 was my best... pretty gutted TBH as it pulled better than the 2.8

Next job = sort the clutch, biting point is really low, after some slipping and abuse at the start line I would have to literally touch the floor with the pedal to change gear, missed 3rd three times trying to quick change, just had to change slow to get a gear properly :-x

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:13 pm
by Rav335uk
Dezzy wrote:I didn't run for obvious reasons :cry: but everything I saw go down was slower than i expected.

If you had stopped show boating and spinning first and second you could have had low 15's Rav
I tried on the second run no to, even with all that shi7 in the boot :mad:

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:14 pm
by beardymat
could have sworn i saw you in the 13`s on your first run dan, must have been daydreaming.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:15 pm
by Rav335uk
beardymat wrote:could have sworn i saw you in the 13`s on your first run dan, must have been daydreaming.
Misty eyed perhaps Matt.? :D

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:21 pm
by DanThe
Rav335uk wrote:
beardymat wrote:could have sworn i saw you in the 13`s on your first run dan, must have been daydreaming.
Misty eyed perhaps Matt.? :D
Haha, there were a few misty eyes this morning :)

First run was 14.1 Matt, didnt get a run in yours?

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:21 pm
by beardymat
still W@nkered to put it bluntly Rav, That Billgates and gareth keeping me up saturday.

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:26 pm
by pritts
never come in my e30 but my e36 evo saloon got a 13.7.............. :D

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:26 pm
by beardymat
It had only done 100 miles by the time i reached the pod Dan and there were a couple of things niggling me which meant i wasnt happy to run it, got a snagging list but will run next year, Might be able to change gear properly by then too, right hand and left foot arent connected properly and coupled with a stiff accelerator makes some gear changes a bit amaturish 8O

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:29 pm
by Alex
my best was 17.2

last year was 16.4

however this year there was the massive head wind, full tank of juice and a lot of camping gear and minus a stainless steel exhaust although i doubt that did much :(

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:32 pm
by DanThe
Changing gear properly is a must, I think this was my downfall more than anything this year,

pritts wrote:never come in my e30 but my e36 evo saloon got a 13.7.............. :D
You beat us lot then :)
I believe there was a standard evo coupe that did a 13.1 last year, so even the aerodynamic cars were down a bit

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:36 pm
by BadDave
beardymat wrote:still W@nkered to put it bluntly Rav, That Billgates and gareth keeping me up saturday.
That had been interesting.
I know what those 2 deviants are like

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:40 pm
by magpie
That Billgates and gareth keeping me up saturday.

not the only one Matt.. + the rain :cry:

good laugh though :D :D

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:15 pm
by gareth
BadDave wrote:
beardymat wrote:still W@nkered to put it bluntly Rav, That Billgates and gareth keeping me up saturday.
That had been interesting.
I know what those 2 deviants are like
Expect nothing else from the moderating team ey Dave! :)

Can you believe it, we were in bed by 3am! 8O WTF! That's so far short of the expected standard it's unreal! :P

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:41 pm
by josh-hocking
Slowest one yet then! haha

18.6 sec

excuse.... M40 haha

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:49 pm
by skipunda
gareth wrote:
BadDave wrote:
beardymat wrote:still W@nkered to put it bluntly Rav, That Billgates and gareth keeping me up saturday.
That had been interesting.
I know what those 2 deviants are like
Expect nothing else from the moderating team ey Dave! :)

Can you believe it, we were in bed by 3am! 8O WTF! That's so far short of the expected standard it's unreal! :P
The question is do you two improve your (drinking) times each year?

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:53 pm
by zaust
I ran twice, 14.7 and 14.6 And I know that is more than improvable. Not bad for an old boat anchor !.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:53 pm
by magpie
good to say hello Josh,you were up early driving :D

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:03 pm
by Gothydude
Had an awesome day despite weather, met some great people, havnt had my first E30 long only a couple of months :) Saw some impressive times on strip and also very nice motors ;)

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:09 pm
by d6dph
DanThe wrote:Changing gear properly is a must, I think this was my downfall more than anything this year,

pritts wrote:never come in my e30 but my e36 evo saloon got a 13.7.............. :D
You beat us lot then :)
I believe there was a standard evo coupe that did a 13.1 last year, so even the aerodynamic cars were down a bit
Estoril blue one? That was Ryan, low325icab on here not that he appears very often. He's a bloody animal :D

He phoned me from the fire up lane asking if he could have a lift home if he blew the car up trying to duck under 13. Didn't manage it, 13.1 and no faster.

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:10 pm
by josh-hocking
magpie wrote:good to say hello Josh,you were up early driving :D
Yeah good chatting to you...

I was driving because i thought the toilets were futher away than they were haha... it seemed effort to walk when theres a car :)

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:20 pm
by e30shed
I did 5 runs. Each run was the exact same time of 16.2 - still scratching my head over a consistency of <0.1 of a second over that many runs :mad: :mad:

I got some video footage of some zoners running the strip, including the timing clock so we'll see who a bullshitter when my faggy internet speed has uploaded it all to youtube.

Am I ok to add some of the so far uploaded links to this thread?

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:28 pm
by johnt0709
Any chance we can post a concise list m50b32 etc and the times - I would be interested to see a 318is time against a 325.

Would put an end to all that shite. :D

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:31 pm
by Dezzy
M50B25 you mean? Don't think any ran?
Weather was pants. Time were poo in the main. People could be bother really.

Was still a good day though. Just didn't get started till 12ish then it looked like rain all day. Well till I went at 3. :D

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:37 pm
by e30shed
Heres the links:

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Sorry about the poor quality but it was a borrowed camera. And my hands were effing cold!

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:43 pm
by bpowell555
Very nice camera work, those two m3 ran 15s :mad:

Zaust's touring is a monster! :cool:

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 12:34 am
by andyp
Alex wrote:my best was 17.2

last year was 16.4

however this year there was the massive head wind, full tank of juice and a lot of camping gear and minus a stainless steel exhaust although i doubt that did much :(

you got a good excuse in having 2 cylinders missing :D

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:51 am
by zaust
Nice one for getting that, Think if I had used the gas I could of got into Dan's time territory :) ..

Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:34 pm
by pritts
DanThe wrote:Changing gear properly is a must, I think this was my downfall more than anything this year,

pritts wrote:never come in my e30 but my e36 evo saloon got a 13.7.............. :D
You beat us lot then :)
I believe there was a standard evo coupe that did a 13.1 last year, so even the aerodynamic cars were down a bit

yeah im the winner.... :D , i think on a better day better traction etc a 13.5 is capable...... but next year my e30 m52 will be among the crowd ... winkeye

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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:03 pm
by Blitz
16.76 my best. Poor starts, headwind, bad weather, Had a very heavy amp and sub, valve clearance not done yet.
(325i cab)