What a shitty end to an ace day out !

[Andy335Touring]

I had a cracking day out at the pod, caught up with some Zone regulars and met some new folks too, had a laugh and a chat, my car did better than i thought it would on the strip but it kicked me in the nuts on the M1 on the way back home.

The bloody petrol gauge was reading a third of a tank left but i ran out of fuel

The RAC took ages to get to me too !

[HartgeH27]

Sorry to hear Andy,

BTW post up your times !!!!

Iain

[maxfield]

At least it wasn't a diesel problem
And atleast it was after not before.
And the RAC is better than the AA

Chin up dude my dad had alot worse experience at gaydon.

[Cotty]

Crap sorry to hear that, I remember reading a thread about fuel gages lying

[Andy335Touring]

Sorry to hear Andy,

BTW post up your times !!!!

Iain

Hi Ian, thanks for organizing this meet, apart my mishap on the way home i had a great day, thanks !

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9162 ... 005hn6.jpg

I hope you can make it all out but basically it was ;

2 x 14.4
2 x 14.5
1 x 14.7

ET MPH was 95/96mph

[HartgeH27]

Tks m8

And Ian332 ??? Come on don't be shy !!!!

[SPADGE]

Unlucky mate
Nice to meet you today and put a face to the name

[Andy335Touring]

Nice to meet you today and put an ugly face to the name

[Gouki]

unlucky man, but one good outcome you got some good times on the strip! excellent stuff.

[dips346]

unlucky mate nice to meet you and see you having fun

[Andy335Touring]

unlucky mate nice to meet you and see you having fun

Sorry we didn't chat for long, i'm looking forward to seeing one of your beastys next time !

[dips346]

trust me next time i will take over the pod,did miss the fun as none of cars were ready this time
loved yours

[Nelly]

Next year, oooooohhhh next year?

Andy, sorry to hear of the defect mate - get that sender changed asap.

Neil.

[Bob_S]

i was too skint to go

[gareth]

i didn't see any dead and lingering E30's on the way back south. amazingly the shogun made it back without missing a beat!!!! i was all ready with tools to help out any stranded fellow zoners but alas i was heading the other way to andy!!! i did have a can of fuel too!

[maxfield]

i didn't see any dead and lingering E30's on the way back south. amazingly the shogun made it back without missing a beat!!!! i was all ready with tools to help out any stranded fellow zoners but alas i was heading the other way to andy!!! i did have a can of fuel too!

Where were you at gaydon then we could of done with tools and a petrol can

[gareth]

to prevent breakdowns, take every tool and spare you have. otherwise you'll break down and won't have the parts or tools! sods law!

i had more tools than i could fit in the touring boot but nothing broke!

[maxfield]

We only needed one allen key. So my dad bought one in the end.

[mattG]

The bloody petrol gauge was reading a third of a tank left but i ran out of fuel

:

may be if you fitted a 1.8 you might of got home

any way nice to have met you nice conversion

[oguz327]

Good to meet you Andy, love the touring

[Andy335Touring]

Thanks chaps, did it sound nice ?

may be if you fitted a 1.8 you might of got home

aah, but i'd still be trying to finish my first quarter mile now !

[E30BeemerLad]

I saw Ian's chariot do a couple of runs at the end of thw day, saw a couple of 14.1's, no disrespect but thought it would have been quicker.

Andy, your touring was quite an impressive site on the strip

[Andy335Touring]

Cheers, I think Ian got a 13.8 as his best

[Turbo-Brown]

Boo, shame about the running out of fuel, but at least it wasn't anything too major

Poxy old electrics!

[Andy335Touring]

but at least it wasn't anything too major

Amen to that !!

[mattG]

Andy whats the out put of that m30 with your custom head work?

[Andy335Touring]

I'm not too sure as it's not been on a RR for ages but i'm guessing around 250 ish ?

[mattG]

holds it own against the s50's though

[Andy335Touring]

Do you mean E36 M3's ?

TBH i didn't do much spectating so i didn't see a lot of results

[mattG]

yes.

whats the weight differance between e30,36,46 anybody know?

[Andy335Touring]

I think the E30 is around 1200 and the 36 is 1450-1500, 46 is 1550-1600 ???

mine is 1300(325 Tourings are 1270 so 30 odd kgs for the engine swap ?)

[mattG]

so the 3's are getting the lardy thing going on like the golfs, small cars are getting bigger

[Andy335Touring]

But on the up side of the later cars they got progressively better rear suspension and the ability to fit bigger wheels and tyres which helps getting the power down

[RustyRuss]

The Fuel Guage on my touring's well optimistic too, after reading this thread ive started carrying a gallon in the boot lol

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My old Skyline was 280bhp and weighed 1450kgs - my best time was 14.3 @ 98mph so I would guess that 250hp would be a good estimate - they say that terminal speed is the best indicator...