Akciddento. Doing the things that we want to
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national finals timing data
just grabbed the timing data from those fine folks at eurodragster for the national finals and here is a breakdown of the best run for the samba. DAN BUZZO? V.W. SPORTSMAN? VW SPORT?97? dial in 15.50? reaction time 1.114?(oh dear, asleep at the lights!) 60ft time 2.077? 330ft time 6.251? 660ft time 9.849? 660ft MPH…
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timing sheets!
here we are after round one, jimby, ollie, ed and cath… comparing timing sheets and giggling like school children… although i got knocked out (for a disasterous reaction time (i need to practice more with the line loc and launch control)) by chris kouzaris racing his wifes daily driver stock 1500cc beetle. Chris was on…
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sheltering in the rain
after qualifying on saturday in brilliant sunshine we were all called to the staging area just after 9 am on sunday for the first round of eliminations. then it started raining. and raining. i ended up with a bus full of racers sheltering from the rain in shifts between braving the weather to buy styrofoam…
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15.54s
after a fantastic weekend at the national finals at santapod raceway we’re back at akciddento HQ… the bus behaved itself and even got home ok after running a monstrous 15.54 seconds over the quarter mile on its first run out. its on a standard gearbox & mounts and still needs to be tuned… how happy…
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the people have voted
tonight its time for this weeks evictions from the akciddento sock basket. and YOU, the public have voted. and the nominations are LONG BLUE SOCK SHORT BLUE AND WHITE BLACK WOOLLEN GLOVE and here is the blacl woollen glove waving goodbye as it goes off to the great sock basket in the sky. —- on…
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drag racing ? a sport ?
there’s a poll running on the BBCTV top gear website about dragracing you can vote on whether you think it’s a real motorsport like circuit racing or a ‘real-motorsport-like-darts-is-a-sport’ ‘ What is drag racing then? Well, you drive for a quarter of a mile in a straight line. Even its detractors would have to admit,…
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wonderful brain…
just saw this post on volkszone forum… Try this one it really does work…………….. just read it and dont look at the words and try to work them out ……………… It helps if you read it out loud too! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in…
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can you guess
what i’ve been up to today ? this is (apart from the engine) the biggest nastiest mechanical bit i’ve ever removed from the bus… ..you could kill someone with this.. 🙂 if you used it properly. finally got the driveshaft out and stripped the CV joint on the end. I forgot that one end is…
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who gets evicted tonight ?
ok, after an odd but semi productive day of too much coffee, interleaved spreadsheet mayhem and lots of crawling about under the bus halfheartedly changing gearbox mounts and attempting to disassemble drive shafts and CV joints i’ve decided not to write about the joys of crawling under a bus on a foam mat (very comfy)…
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a lazy sunday…
captain venners called over to finish off the welding on the fugly so while he got stuck into that i did some quick electrical shopping at maplins… ten minutes later and i’ve got enough cable to plug the laptop into the ECU brain on the fuelinjection and secure the laptop into the harness on the…
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