Wsid 26/10/05

[TommO]

Hi all,

I've got all tomorrow off work, so i'll be heading out to WSID. I'll be at the gates at 4:45pm as i'd like to get in early.

If anyone see's me, feel free to come say hi.

I've just got a R33 GTS-T with an exhaust and Falken Ziex tyres, so i'm not expecting good times, but it will be good fun..

Hope to see some of you there

Regards,

Tommo.

[cerci]

hey mate kewl i have a r33 but i cant take it just yet

if i come i will come down 2 where u guys wait and have a chat

p.s good luck

[TommO]

Thanks mate - will look forward to it. Let's hope it's a quiet night, I'm sooo tempted to go and buy some sticky rubber tomorrow.

Cheers,

Tommo

[FullMetal]

I might be there tomorrow with my mate. He's racing his integra! I'll say hi if I see u!

Hope u get some good times

[SECURITY]

yeah im going down with some honda boys. ill see you there.

[TommO]

It was a pretty good night, although damn hot and humid, which my stock side mount didn't like too much at all.

Managed to get a 14.3 @ 96mph anyway.

R33 GTS-T with turbo back exhaust, 8psi, and falken Ziex tyres.

[TommO]

Some burnout vids

http://www.gunnamotorsport.com/vids/tommowsid3.avi

http://www.gunnamotorsport.com/vids/tommowsid2.avi

http://www.gunnamotorsport.com/vids/tommowsid.avi

Turns out I have a nail in my tyre

Edited October 26, 2005 by TommO

[JeeTeeEss25Tee]

isnt it stock exhaust in the video?

[TommO]

isnt it stock exhaust in the video?

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Nup, although i've gone for an exhaust tip that looks like stock

http://www.gunnamotorsport.com/tommo/tommo1.jpg

[MaTBoY]

What times did you guys get?

[Goon]

Nup, although i've gone for an exhaust tip that looks like stock

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sneaky

[TommO]

hehe, it's just I do a lot of KM's in my car, and I personally don't like big cannons on 33s...

[Flaps]

Not bad, do you have nails in both tyres as i saw both sparking? Im guessing these were 2nd gear burnouts.

How many runs did you get in?

[dacow]

yeah i see the sparks too nice vids mmmm burnoutssss

[TommO]

Not bad, do you have nails in both tyres as i saw both sparking? Im guessing these were 2nd gear burnouts.

How many runs did you get in?

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Yeah 2nd gear burnouts... I think in the right one I just had a rock because that was the only time it did it... so dodgy though - so i've booked in to get new tyres on Tuesday Both tyres only spark in the first video (tommowsid.avi)

Managed to get 5 runs in, between 6pm and 8:30pm (at that point, my tyres were pretty much bald and it wasn't going to get any colder )

I'd also gotten 96mph in EVERY one of my runs, just with a different 60ft time.. I figured the only way I was going to get faster is with a better MPH, which just wasn't going to happen.

Edited October 27, 2005 by TommO

[wilch]

did you try a run without a burnout?

...if I remember correctly some of the guys that were at the drag day running street rubber got their best times when they didn't do burnouts.

[Bunta]

Good choice of tip Tommo, Just like mine! Every man and their excel has cannons these days, sort of turned me off them.

Nice vids too

[Robo's]

Funny you say about 2nd gear burnouts, but i started doing these and on every occassion i couldnt grab 3rd gear on my run. I thought something is wrong with the box and i started to get quotes on a new gearbox. So next runs, i swapped back to only 1st gear burnouts and now i hit 3rd gear every time. Weird hey

[TommO]

I had no problems selecting gears throughout the run? Sucks to hear about that problem, I haven't experienced that though.

Wilch: I know what you mean, I read that too, so I played around with it myseld. In the end, the bigger burnout I did, the better 60ft I was getting. Thats the thing, the Falken Ziex's have a very very high temperature rating as to when they become sticky, and the big burnouts got them there I tried a little first gear burnout on my first run and it spun a lot off the line...

edit: I got a best of 2.100 60ft time.... not too great but not too shitty either

Edited October 28, 2005 by TommO

[ECR033]

Believe me, a 2.1 60" on those rubbish tyres is pretty good. The best I could manage on the same tyres was a 2.2 with plenty of 2.3-2.5's in there for good measure. Whether I did a burnout or not didn't really make any difference to my times.

A set of sticky tyres would drop you into the 13's without any problems at all - they basically dropped me from a 13.7 to a 12.9 (with a few other small mods).

Back on street tyres though, what are you replacing the Falkens with Tommo?

I'm going to get rid of mine as well, just trying to get another opinion on what tyres to replace them with (was thinking either Toyo T1R's or Goodyear Revspec RS-02's).