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NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:28 pm
by Speedy88
Awesome day! I spent most of the time wandering around, talking to people and racing. Chris was there who as you know challenged me to beat his 15.8 time from last year. Well I did! 15.78 and Chris also beat his PB at 15.79. Lots of brake stands and ragging my car as hard as I could is still making me smile. This means (according to chris) I now own the fastest NA Volvo in the UK :D

I just took some pictures of stuff I liked the look of. I mean most of it was nice but some stood out for me...

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Gave this a run for it's money:
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Rear of that twin alfa:
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Scene but I like it:
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Nice to have a mini convoy with you on the way home...
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And somewhere on the A34 this happened...
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Here's to another 150k! Have a video:
http://www.youtube.com/?v=taqnygKIx60

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:33 pm
by volvosneverdie
Cheers for sharing man.

Looks like it was a top day.

Fastest NA volvo ?

really?

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:42 pm
by Speedy88
Faster than anything stock and deffinatly the fastest NA 300. Turbos are for cheaters :wink:

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 01:54 pm
by volvosneverdie
Speedy88 wrote:Faster than anything stock and deffinatly the fastest NA 300. Turbos are for cheaters :wink:
Cool claim to fame to have dude.

Or,

Challenge? :wink:

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:39 pm
by Chris_C
Speedy88 wrote:This means (according to chris) I now own the fastest NA Volvo in the UK :D
That's been on the quarter mile.... AFAIK. This came from Turbobricks to me, so no idea how recent it actually is ;) Still, worth finding out more about, I'll be happy to take it back again soon :lol:

My old time was a 15.89 from memory so I'm happy I got an extra 10th, especially as I wasn't being super harsh on her having only just got it running so I could get there. There's a lot still to get out of both our cars!

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 02:49 pm
by Chris_C
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh14OQfSHfM

There are 1080 p's available to those who select it ;)

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:16 pm
by Speedy88
Chris_C wrote:There's a lot still to get out of both our cars!
Yarp. I'd like to retain the nice drivability though which is why I had the idea of turbos a while back. Shirley it will be virtually the same before the turbo kicks in?

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:17 pm
by Speedy88
Chris_C wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh14OQfSHfM

There are 1080 p's available to those who select it ;)
Yeaah! Can't watch it at work though, will watch later.

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:31 pm
by volvosneverdie
Chris_C wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh14OQfSHfM

There are 1080 p's available to those who select it ;)
Good comeback. 8)

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:39 pm
by jon-ovlov
Speedy88 wrote:Faster than anything stock and deffinatly the fastest NA 300. Turbos are for cheaters :wink:

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:wink:

Nice one dude. Fastest NA 300 is wicked. I also agree entirely on the turbo front. N/A all the way. Looks like I missed a heck of a show. Ah well, retro rides @ Prescott, I will be there!

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:48 pm
by L14MNP
Nice one Speedy. I disagree on a blown motor being equal to cheating in the power gains though.

I wonder what the 340 owners in this thread would say if there were decent, readily available t blocks to drop in as easily as the larger 16v n/a stuff. :lol:

Your prop wouldn't like it mind! :lol:

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 03:50 pm
by Chris_C
Turbo's arn't cheating... the amount of work mine was taking is why I did a valver in a weekend as a break ;)

Speedy, it's a shame we couldn't line up again. We tried for an hour or so after the first race, but people kept blowing up in front of us so a lane kept getting shut at the wrong time :( I'm sure you'd have won one too tbf, we were both putting in consistent 15.8's +/- a bit.

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:05 pm
by Speedy88
I'd love to go turbo. They're cheating when they're faster than me :lol:

I really really want to go back now with somewhere to offload my junk, maybe even take a seat out. 15.5 must be possible on our setup.

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:32 pm
by volvosneverdie
Lots of coolness and interest on this thread.

How about a v3m drag day?

I think ive got the fastest stock b14. :shock:

Re: NVC - Retro show at Santa pod

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 04:44 pm
by Speedy88
Needs to be done. The pod run weekly run what you brung days I think.