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Private test days are a great chance for racers to put their cars and even themselves through their paces without the pressure and down time associated with a competition meet or even a normal test and tune meet. Minimal cars, no rushing about to make rounds, just rock up, test, make changes if required and head back out again whenever you want. We headed out last Friday with a few of our customers, our Sony Action Cams in hand and ready to put down some passes...
Heading out for the first time with his new bridgeport combo, Adam Warwar was keen to improve on his previous 9.8 PB he achieved with the 13B mild port setup. As you can see from the image above Adam certainly had his hands full on the day with the car heading skywards on more than one occasion.
After running a pair of easy low 10s Rocky turned things up a bit and sent Adam on his way; The result was an easy 9.83@135, followed by a new PB 9.61@138...The last pass of the day saw the car almost on the back bar before coming down hard and bending the cars steering. Trust us when we say you'll want to check out the in-car footage from our Sony Action Cam of that run!
Mark Brenner was out getting some more wheel-time in his crazy RX3. This guy's quickly becoming one of the most exciting drivers to watch with his all or nothing approach to getting the car down the track...
Sounding strong as always we were all hoping to see Mark improve on his current 7.49@175 PB.
Unfortunately as much as Mark tried his best he was unable to better his ET, the car fighting back hard off the line.
On the two passes the car did get out of the hole, as expected it resulted in some excitement; mark using his entire lane on one run, looking more like he was running a slalom course and the other a close miss in the deep end of the track when his steering didn't respond due to the front wheels having minimal contact with the track..
The sound emitting from the immaculately-presented E46 was pure ear porn, the big 20B sounding much like the Mazda6 SP.
For the whole team the first burnout was both a heart pounding moment and a big relief for all of those involved but once the smoke settled it was straight down to business.
Owner/driver Mohamed was obviously wrapped to finally be able to race the car that has for the past few years been a static showpiece.
Stepping into such a serious drag car it's going to take some time for Moey to get to a point where he is comfortable and confident enough to push it. Things went well though on the day with Moey putting down some nice clean burnouts and the car was strong out of the hole.
Another car that keeps it's driver on his toes is Elia's 13B RX3 coupe. Like Brenner's sedan this car requires a higher level of finesse when it comes to getting it down the track cleanly.
Like Mark's sedan, the coupe also had issues getting out of the hole cleanly on the day, Elia only able to get one full pass on the day that definitely wasn't indicative of the cars potential..
The Dentist didn't have much luck on the day either, it's short game seeing the car bog down or rattle the tyres hard out of the hole.
All three of these monster 13Bs are solid performers as we've seen in the past and all three of them undoubtedly have what it takes to dip into that six-second bracket but as usual it's all a matter of right place, right time and this just wasn't it...
PRIVATE TEST DAY 12/9/14
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Private test days are a great chance for racers to put their cars and even themselves through their paces without the pressure and down time associated with a competition meet or even a normal test and tune meet. Minimal cars, no rushing about to make rounds, just rock up, test, make changes if required and head back out again whenever you want. We headed out last Friday with a few of our customers, our Sony Action Cams in hand and ready to put down some passes...
Heading out for the first time with his new bridgeport combo, Adam Warwar was keen to improve on his previous 9.8 PB he achieved with the 13B mild port setup. As you can see from the image above Adam certainly had his hands full on the day with the car heading skywards on more than one occasion.
After running a pair of easy low 10s Rocky turned things up a bit and sent Adam on his way; The result was an easy 9.83@135, followed by a new PB 9.61@138...The last pass of the day saw the car almost on the back bar before coming down hard and bending the cars steering. Trust us when we say you'll want to check out the in-car footage from our Sony Action Cam of that run!
Mark Brenner was out getting some more wheel-time in his crazy RX3. This guy's quickly becoming one of the most exciting drivers to watch with his all or nothing approach to getting the car down the track...
Sounding strong as always we were all hoping to see Mark improve on his current 7.49@175 PB.
Unfortunately as much as Mark tried his best he was unable to better his ET, the car fighting back hard off the line.
On the two passes the car did get out of the hole, as expected it resulted in some excitement; mark using his entire lane on one run, looking more like he was running a slalom course and the other a close miss in the deep end of the track when his steering didn't respond due to the front wheels having minimal contact with the track..
The sound emitting from the immaculately-presented E46 was pure ear porn, the big 20B sounding much like the Mazda6 SP.
For the whole team the first burnout was both a heart pounding moment and a big relief for all of those involved but once the smoke settled it was straight down to business.
Owner/driver Mohamed was obviously wrapped to finally be able to race the car that has for the past few years been a static showpiece.
Stepping into such a serious drag car it's going to take some time for Moey to get to a point where he is comfortable and confident enough to push it. Things went well though on the day with Moey putting down some nice clean burnouts and the car was strong out of the hole.
Another car that keeps it's driver on his toes is Elia's 13B RX3 coupe. Like Brenner's sedan this car requires a higher level of finesse when it comes to getting it down the track cleanly.
Like Mark's sedan, the coupe also had issues getting out of the hole cleanly on the day, Elia only able to get one full pass on the day that definitely wasn't indicative of the cars potential..
The Dentist didn't have much luck on the day either, it's short game seeing the car bog down or rattle the tyres hard out of the hole.
All three of these monster 13Bs are solid performers as we've seen in the past and all three of them undoubtedly have what it takes to dip into that six-second bracket but as usual it's all a matter of right place, right time and this just wasn't it...
