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Enjoy your granddaughter's first birthday party, and good luck making some great passes sir!

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Enjoy your granddaughter's first birthday party, and good luck making some great passes sir!

Oh my goodness!!

Where do I start ?? I had one of the BEST weekends ever

Faiths 1st birthday Gig was so cool! Everything went well. We had invited friends with babies for a noon to 5pm session and then other family and adult friends to stop by either all day or from 5pm onwards. The weather was fine and warm, there was a constant stream of family and friends from noon to midnight We decided that a BBQ in the garden was not a good idea with children around, so I was busy on the wok for a good few hours during the day making piri piri chicken strips and assorted stir fries to order. The girls made up a huge spread of assorted bbq chicken and nibbles and dips etc... By 7pm the hardcore of family and friends were settled in and the folk with little ones had drifted away. But the food was running low, so my youngest Daughter hopped into the kitchen with me and we hashed up two huge lasagnes with chopped salad and my special shallow fried new potatoes. Just as well we did some big ones as we ended up with 18 folk wanting an evening meal It was off the scale and so much fun for me, Gill and the kids to be able to lay on a day out for do many folks
Faith had a good day !!
Here she is on the left with a friends little girl who is called Grace




Baby Faith stayed up until 1am when we had to all go to bed as we were racing the following morning. Faith and her mum came with us as did some other friends with their children as they seemed interested in seeing what I did. So at 7am on Sunday we were hauling ass to the track with another 10 bodies who had decided to crash with us so they could see some racing. The 10 bodies were 7 adults and 3 children who had spent the night spread around the spare rooms and the lounge in sleeping bags etc.
Long story slightly shorter (you guys know how I tend to ramble ) and we were at the track and the MG was off the trailer and ready in double quick time.

Nitrous was turned off. Sunday was all about making sure the tranny and converter was working. The only difference between Sunday and any other day with the MG running on boost only was that I had to pull the shifter BACKWARDS now instead of FORWARDS

And could I get to happen? Hell No!!

I did 5 passes and only on one pass did I actually shift from 1st to 2nd. the other 4 passes saw me launching and going from 1st to neutral. At least I can now confirm that my rev limiter works

Summary of the runs:

1st run was me holding on the T brake at 2000 rpm. Then launch and do the 1 to N trick before shifting back through 1st to 2nd and 3rd with pedal to the metal = 11.7 seconds

2nd run = T brake + 3000 rpm and the same 1 to N trick with an 11.4.

3rd run I actually get it together with a 3500 rpm launch on the T brake and I actually shifted 1st to 2nd. But the tyres let go and I was doing some drifting for a while before I hit 3rd and got straight to run 11.7.

Runs 4 and 5 were T brake + 4000 rpm. Both runs were launch in 1st, shift to N and then pull back through 1st to 2nd and then 3rd gears. I kept my foot in all the time even with the limiter popping. The shift light is set to 5700 rpm and the limiter is set at 6000. All of my mates were surprised as they could not hear a missed gear. It just sounds like a longer run in 1st gear from the outside. Both of these passes were 10.9 seconds. This is amazing news for me i think?

On the old tranny I could run 10.9 or 10.8 with a foot brake launch on the blower only. But on these old launches I would put the pedal to the metal as soon as the lights changed and be on it hard from the get go. But even with a missed gear i ran 10.9 on the new setup. 60 foot times on the two 10.9 passes were 1.4's On the old setup I would only run 1.5's on boost only and with nitrous I would hit 1.3's in the 60 foot ??

So I'm thinking that I may be on the right road to a new PB soon? But I dont want to run nitrous until I can be sure that I can actually change gears correctly. So next time out on the 27th I want to see if I can grow a pair and see what the engine revs to at full pedal on the T Brake?? When i have done this I will attempt a launch like this !
Enough rambling. Here is a vid of my last run of the day. See if you can hear the missed gear? From outside you cant. From inside there is a rev limiter complaining and a driver in a frenzy. When I heard the limiter popping from inside I quickly hit the shifter backwards and while doing so I hit the curly cable from the T brake button on the steering wheel which flicked the wiper arm which started my windshield wipers going Not a lot more could have gone wrong.
Enjoy the short video folks.
Regards from me and the family here in the UK

Perry

Perry Stephenson testing the transbrake - YouTube